FE International Blog

Amazon allegedly announces tiered commission and bonus rates ahead of Prime Day Amazon associates have allegedly received emails detailing tiered commission rates to incentivize sales in qualified categories ahead of Prime Day, which still does not have an official date in the calendar. According to one associate, the email states that tiered performance rates will… Read More

Google announces that Search Console reporting is delayed On Monday, Google Webmasters tweeted out that its Search Console reporting was experiencing “longer than usual” delays. This particular problem does not affect Google’s ability to crawl, index, or rank pages, rather, this issue only affects reporting. This could result in pages that were recently published to… Read More

WordPress 5.5.1 maintenance release fixes millions of broken websites Recently, WordPress published new information detailing why WordPress 5.5 caused complications for millions of websites. WordPress describes the situation: “In WordPress 5.5 the global JavaScript objects listed below were removed without being deprecated. WordPress 5.5.1 adds a backfill for these globals so they no longer cause… Read More

Banzai Acquires High Attendance As reported by Yahoo Finance, FE International client High Attendance formally announced its acquisition by venture-backed, leading event SaaS platform, Banzai. In total, High Attendance adds 10 team members to Banzai’s rapidly growing headcount of more than 80 employees. The SEC has adopted new accredited investor rules On Wednesday, the Security… Read More

Shopify revenue doubles in Q2. The Canadian e-commerce giant has released its Q2 results, and 97% revenue growth has been reported year on year. Shopify has benefited from the rush of businesses looking to set up online during the global pandemic, and new stores on the platform grew 71% in the second quarter. This growth has… Read More

Google is to start paying for news content from select publishers as part of a “new news experience”. The program will start in Germany, Brazil, and Australia and will include publications like Der Spiegel and Schwarz Media. Spiegel Group’s Managing Director said, “[The program] will allow us to curate an experience that will bring our award-winning… Read More

Mediavine has changed its requirements for new publishers due to increased demand for its services in the wake of COVID-19. Like many online businesses, Mediavine has seen a surge in activity due to the global lockdown, and this rush of new applicants has caused the company to rethink its entry requirements. The main requirements for new publishers… Read More

Amazon has teamed with Goldman’s Marcus brand to offer credit to small businesses. Amazon had previously considered building its own marketplace for lenders, where lenders could compete over Amazon’s merchants. Instead, Amazon is to work exclusively with Goldman, offering revolving credit lines with fixed annual rates to small businesses. The rates, according to people in… Read More

President Trump has taken aim at social media companies after seeing his tweets flagged with alleged “misinformation” tags this week. The President has said he aims to introduce legislation that will curb the freedoms of social media companies after tweeting that he would shut down Twitter for interfering in an election. Share prices in Twitter… Read More

Shopify has unveiled a host of new finance, retail, and shipping updates for its e-commerce platform at a virtual event dubbed Shopify Reunite. The headline product is Shopify Balance, a business account, debit card and rewards combination that will include a new area found within the Shopify merchant admin workspace. It will allow merchants to… Read More