ai bots, amazon, e-commerce, internet, walmart

A Secret AI Bot War Is Happening Right Under Your Nose

Thousands of AI (artificial intelligence) bots crawl the Internet every second for purposes that range from collecting pricing information from competing e-commerce retailers to editing Wikipedia pages. And unknown to the average Internet user, there is a secret bot war going on over the Internet, involving the companies that employ such bots and the bots ...

Armin Auctor

An Amazon center.

TikTok Takes Legal Action Against Trump Administration

On August 6, President Trump passed an Executive Order banning U.S. transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese corporation that owns TikTok. The ban will come into effect 45 days from the issue of the order. In retaliation, TikTok recently filed a lawsuit against the executive order in a California court, naming the U.S. Department of Commerce, ...

Jack Roberts

TikTok app on a smartphone.

American Companies See Big Potential in the Chinese Middle Class

Though the trade relationship between the U.S. and China is not exactly on good terms right now, many American companies see the potential for huge growth in the burgeoning market of the Chinese middle class. The Chinese market Current estimates put the middle-class population of China at around 400 million. According to McKinsey, this number ...

Jack Roberts

China's middle class is growing.