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New Startup Pinch AI Tackles The Growing Problem Of Ecommerce Returns Scams

If Q4 is the holiday shopping season, then Q1 might be the season of returns, or more specifically the season of return fraud. Retailers and ecommerce merchants are seeing a growing trend of returns and fulfillment scams that drain profit margins after big sales. This fraud was the impetus for Thursday’s launch of Pinch AI, […]

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The Rundown: Google has drawn its AI payment lines — and publishers’ leverage is narrow

Google’s testimony to U.K. lawmakers this week did more than restate familiar arguments about fair use and training. It clarified the boundaries of what the company believes it should, and should not, pay publishers for in the AI-driven search ecosystem. For publishers trying to navigate AI licensing, the message was blunt: Google is willing to

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‘We don’t care if you don’t use our UX anymore’: Yahoo recasts its DSP as a data backbone for the agentic world

Yahoo is intentionally making its demand-sider platform (DSP) less sticky.  That cuts against the grain of ad tech, which has spent the better part of two decades engineering software to trap budgets, data and behavior inside proprietary dashboards. But Yahoo is making a different bet. Lower the friction to exit, and it also lowers the friction

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How The North Face, Vans and Timberland are trying to transform their businesses in 2026

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Apparel and outdoors giant VF Corp is revealing more details of its growth playbooks for three of its core brands: The North Face, Vans and Timberland. The company, which recently reported a 2% rise in revenue for its second fiscal quarter, knows it’s at a crossroads as

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