Rachel Gilmore Discovers Why Shopify Really Took Down Kanye’s Store (It Wasn’t the Swastika)

Inside Shopify's Kanye West Decision

Shopify has removed Kanye West’s Yeezy brand store, not primarily due to the controversial swastika imagery, but because the company deemed it was not operating in “good faith” as a legitimate business, according to leaked internal communications. While the swastika image drew widespread condemnation and likely contributed to the decision, the leaked messages suggest Shopify’s … Read more

Amazon Made More Commission Cuts on Their UK & EU Affiliate Programs

Amazon associates affiliate cut

Following the big slash in affiliate commission cut in April, Amazon just made more commission cuts on their UK & EU programs. From the 1-st of February 2021, an indirect commission will pay 1.5% irrespective of the category. These changes apply to traffic referred to Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es. As an alternative to … Read more

Hackers Tricked GoDaddy Employees into Helping Attacks on Crypto Services

Hackers tricked GoDaddy into helping attacks on cryptocurrency services

GoDaddy’s Security challenges in 2020 haven’t ended. KrebsOnSecurity has found that hackers tricked many GoDaddy employees into transferring ownership or control of the web domains of several cryptocurrency services, inadvertently assisting in site shut down attacks. It is not known how many companies have fallen victim to these efforts, but Liquid.com and NiceHash have reported … Read more

Endurance International Group (EIG) to Be Acquired by Clearlake Capital for $3B

Endurance International to be bought by Clearlake

Endurance International Group Holdings, which traded in NASDAQ under the ticker EIGI, entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by the private equity firm Clearlake Capital Group in an all-cash deal valued at ~$3B. “We are pleased with this agreement which recognizes the value of our multi-brand scale platform. We are proud to serve approximately … Read more

Shopify Reveals That Employees Stole Customer Data from Merchants

Shopify Employees Stole Customer Data from Merchants

Shopify, a leading eCommerce platform reveals an incident where two “rogue” employees stole data from fewer than 200 merchants in a breach that might have exposed customer emails, names, and order information. Probably, no payment card numbers and other billing information were exposed. It’s important to mention that in a security sense, it’s not a … Read more

GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge for Deeper WooCommerce Integration

GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), announced today that it had entered into a merger and acquisition agreement to acquire SkyVerge, a WooCommerce extension developer with more than 60 premium WooCommerce extensions, spanning email marketing, memberships, payments & billing, and many more and used by over 100,000 online store merchants for their eCommerce sites. SkyVerge is a highly … Read more

Why People Love Technology News

How-Technology-News-Help-People

Technology news is the activity, product, or subject of reporters who are primarily engaged in the preparation of articles, written, visual, sound, or multi-media content meant for distribution through the mass media, specifically focused on technology-related topics, such as Generator Research. Technological news includes products and services, the growth of the technology industry, and new … Read more

Walmart Cuts Affiliate Rates to As Low As 1% on Many Categories

Walmart cuts affiliate rates on many categories

Today, Walmart has pushed a contract update with many categories of affiliate rates cut from 4% to 1%, such as: Furniture Bed and Bath Kitchen Appliances Dining Vacuums Home Decor Arts & Crafts. It’s still not officially announced and you need to compare the contracts by yourself. It’s important to remember that the mentioned categories … Read more

Uzi Nissan, The Man Who Fought Nissan Over a Website And Won, Has Died Of Covid-19

uzi nissan won his domain name against nissan motors

Uzi Nissan is an Israeli who opened his own business in the United States in the early 80s. He first worked in a car workshop, then opened his own (named Nissan Foreign Car) and sold parts (named Nissan International), and then went into retail at a firm name Nissan Computer. For his own business, he … Read more