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While retailers are prioritising speedy and green shipping, consumers are concerned about costs, ShipStation’s latest Delivery Benchmark Report reveals.  A staggering 80% of Australians say affordability is their top priority when shopping online, eclipsing other factors like fast delivery, personalisation, or sustainability. 

The Commonwealth Bank says using Artificial Intelligence to help protect its customers has reduced fraud by 30% and seen a 50% reduction in scam losses. 

GUEST OPINION:  The eCommerce landscape in Australia is poised for a year of transformation as competition among marketplaces intensifies, social commerce continues to rise, and AI applications take a more customer-facing role. Pattern, the global eCommerce and marketplace accelerator, has identified the key trends that will shape eCommerce in Australia in 2025, presenting brands with new opportunities to engage and convert customers over the year ahead.

GUEST INTERVIEW:  CJ Moses moves out of the shadows to discuss day-to-day issues at one of the world’s most scrutinised companies

AWS enterprise customers can now leverage the combined power of Cloudera and Snowflake for a unified source of truth across all data, analytics, and AI workloads. AWS customers will benefit from increased flexibility, data utility, and reduced complexity, supporting modern data architecture by seamlessly connecting their workloads with Snowflake, Cloudera, and AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Athena.

Amazon has unveiled a new suite of AI models designed to take on the likes of OpenAI and Google in the highly competitive generative AI space.

Many organisations have a significant number of legacy applications that often require specialised expertise to operate and are usually expensive and time-consuming to maintain.

COMPANY NEWS:  Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, announced Clumio Backtrack, a new capability that will enable enterprises to use automation to rapidly revert objects – or pieces of data – stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to a specific version at a specific point and time. This makes it quick and easy for cloud operations, IT, and security teams to recover data from errors, accidents, or cyberattacks, almost as if they were able to turn back the clock to the last known good state. But, the capability goes well beyond that in terms of scale.

Pattern Recovery Gains Back An Average of 6% Revenue for Australian brands

A game changing power solution for energy-efficient home-backup, off-grid living and disaster preparedness

The global leader in eyewear design, manufacture and retail, EssilorLuxottica has engaged ecommerce and marketplace accelerator, Pattern, to expand business for its Ray-Ban and Oakley brands through online marketplaces in Australia.

COMPANY NEWS: Intel and Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, today announced a co-investment in custom chip designs under a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar framework covering product and wafers from Intel.

Dell’Oro Group revised its data centre capex forecast upward to a 24% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2028 as a result of surging demand in AI-related data centre infrastructure.

Amazon Prime Day - well, days - is here, and you can score some great discounts.

GUEST RESEARCH:  In a world first, Prime Day Australia will run for six days this year (Tuesday, July 16 at 12.01am AEST to Sunday, July 21), with significant growth predicted for 2024, according to new research from global marketplace leader, Pattern.

Vrio, parent company of Directv Latin America and Sky Brasil, has signed a distribution agreement with Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network, to offer internet connectivity in seven countries in South America.

GUEST RESEARCH:  An industry-first study by global ecommerce accelerator, Pattern, has shown that despite their surging popularity, Australian consumers hold negative views on the quality of the products sold on emerging marketplaces Temu and Shein.

GUEST OPINION: The world of online gaming is a high-stakes arena. Platforms like Steam and Epic Games need to distribute content with the efficiency of tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.

Google has fired 28 employees who were involved in a protest at two of its offices this week against Project Nimbus, a US$1.2 billion (A$1.87 billion) cloud contract with Israel, which also involves Amazon.

Leading global ecommerce and marketplace accelerator Pattern, today announced the release of ‘Shelf’ – a powerful new inventory and supply chain technology that provides Australian brands with unparalleled visibility and control of their products across all ecommerce and wholesale channels.