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eCommerce on Fire: Back to Pandemic Highs (And What Shopify’s $75B Quarter Tells Us)

SaaStr

In May 2025 ecommerce just hit 20.21% of total retail sales – a whisker away from April 2020’s panic-buying peak. This isn’t just Shopify winning market share. What Changed Between April 2020 and May 2025? Quality vs. Quantity Growth April 2020: Panic-driven adoption. No lockdowns. The crashed websites?

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Google declared a monopoly: industry reactions and implications

Search Engine Land

.” Market Dynamics and Google’s Competitors Chris Lloyd , B2B SaaS Marketing consultant, points out that Google’s market share has been declining due to its inability to innovate: “I think we are already seeing their decline, and it’s not due to regulatory rulings.

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Global search engine AI innovations: What SEOs need to know

Search Engine Land

Google and Bing get a lot of attention, which you’d expect given both hold approximately 95% of the global search market share. While it remains the dominant search engine in China, it has lost market share to non-traditional “search engine” applications. seeing a 4% increase, according to data from Glimpse.

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The Google monopoly verdict: More industry reactions

Martech

Dig deeper: What the Google antitrust ruling could mean for advertisers Market dynamics and Google’s competitors Chris Lloyd, a freelance marketing consultant, points out that Google’s market share has been declining due to its inability to innovate: “I think we are already seeing their decline, and it’s not due to regulatory rulings.

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Genesys Files to IPO. Will 2025 Be The Year Of The “It’s Just Time” IPO?

SaaStr

Others will have to accept much lower returns, at least for folks that invested in 2020-early 2022. It dominated a large section of the “on prem” call center market. It’s just time. OneStream was arguably one of these, and PE made a big gain on the IPO. It just filed to IPO.

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How SaaS Pricing Evolves Across Different Company Stages

Sales Hacker

The Scaling Stage: Building Market Leadership The scaling stage is where a SaaS company seeks to solidify its position as a market leader. By this point, the product has proven its value, and the company has achieved significant traction in the market.

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Consumer Optimism Will Turn a Corner Ahead of the Holidays

Salesforce

This is not just an advantage, but a necessity to cultivate loyalty and capture market share. Supply chain uncertainty has dominated headlines since 2020, but in 2025 tariffs are putting even more pressure on retailers and consumers alike. This year, loyalty will be defined by two main things: price and quality.