Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.
Internal message: Shopify's general council said the company closed Ye's store since the swastika shirt listed for sale “brought with it the real risk of fraud”
TORONTO — Shopify's general counsel said the company took down musician Kanye West's online store because of the potential …
Shopify shutters Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, saying it violated Shopify's ToS
Shopify said in a statement: “This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.”
A Delaware federal court overturns a jury's 2022 decision that Shopify owes $40M to Express Mobile for infringing patents related to website-building tools
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Shopify settles a lawsuit with five major education publishers that claimed the platform ignored notices of users selling pirated textbooks and other materials
Blake Brittain / Reuters : Tweets: @frankcatalano Tweets: Frank Catalano / @frankcatalano : “The joint filing said Shopify had resolved the dispute with Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning, Elsevier...
A Delaware jury says Shopify owes $40M to patent holder Express Mobile for infringing three patents related to software for providing content to mobile devices
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Shopify denies copyright infringement claims from publishers and says court is the wrong venue to force changes in copyright laws that shield tech companies
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Five major education publishers sue Shopify for $500M+ for failing to remove listings and stores that sell pirated textbooks and other content
Textbook pirates are selling stolen learning materials on the platform, according to a lawsuit — Five major publishers have sued Shopify …
Shopify takes down online stores run by the Trump Organization and Trump campaign for violating its policy against promoting violence
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