Natalie Gagliordi

Box said billings in the second quarter were approximately $213 million, an increase of 13% year-over-year and above consensus estimates.

Overall, eBay saw a decline in consumer online spending and active buyers, but the company is seeing growth in its managed payments and advertising businesses.

The company said retail Monthly Transacting Users (MTUs) increased to 8.8 million, up 44% from last quarter.

Like other pandemic beneficiaries in the retail space, Wayfair is seeing sales trend back to pre-pandemic levels as consumer spending habits shift once again.

Taboola said it plans to launch a new type of recommendation geared toward advertisers and publishers that connects editorial content to product recommendations.

The video communications giant said the updates are designed to offer users a greater degree of collaboration, productivity and entertainment options within the Zoom meeting and desktop experience.

Building on the success of the Square Debit Card and Square Capital, the company is launching Square Banking, a combination of savings, checking and loan services for Square merchants.

The service is designed to provide small businesses with flexible data options and access to more than 20 million Xfinity WiFi hotspots.

On Facebook, roughly 200 accounts associated with the cyber espionage campaign were blocked and taken down.

The Qualtrics Experience Design for Hybrid Work and Workplaces platform lets organizations utilize pre-built question sets, real-time dashboards, and guided action plans to develop corporate future-of-work plans.

Google researchers discovered four zero-days that were used as part of three targeted malware campaigns that exploited previously unknown flaws in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and WebKit.

ZoomInfo said that by adding Chorus’ technology to its platform, it will gain middle-of-the-funnel intelligence that bolsters ZoomInfo’s existing top-of-the-funnel strength.

According to IDC’s latest quarterly PC sales tracker, consumer buying trends have begun to taper off, as the 13% growth rate in Q2 is significantly lower than the 55.9% growth seen last quarter.

HPE said Ampool will help accelerate Ezmeral’s analytics runtime for interactive SQL workloads and bolster its ability to handle data-intensive workloads.

The 10-year cloud-computing contract was awarded to Microsoft in October 2019, but a lawsuit filed by AWS claimed that then-President Donald Trump’s vendetta against Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos was a key factor in Microsoft’s win.

With Zettle, PayPal will now be able to serve in-store small businesses in the US with a complete point-of-sale system and Zettle’s new POS reader.

Adobe said its latest updates are designed to help retailers focus on the data they already own and optimize it for insights.

Google said its new Nest security practices include adopting standards Google has long held as well as implementing new updates that are specific to Nest’s connected home devices and services.

Zoom will use Kites’ technology to offer multi-language translation capabilities for Zoom users.

Shopify also announced that it’s lowering its share of developer revenue across the Shopify App Store, as well as in the new Shopify Theme Store.