Shopify
Canadian e-commerce company
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| 2025 | Shopify announced the complete migration of all its apps to React Native, enabling consistent code across all client platforms over the previous five years. |
| April 2025 | Shopify founder and CEO Tobias Lütke publicly criticized the Canadian federal government for imposing retaliatory tariffs on the United States, defending President Trump's original 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. Lütke argued that Trump's actions were justified to address border control and fentanyl-related issues. |
| February 2025 | The Simon Wiesenthal Center and former Shopify executives criticized the company for hosting Kanye West's Yeezy shop after West aired a Super Bowl advertisement featuring a white t-shirt with a Nazi swastika. Shopify initially told support staff to give 'no comment' and later removed the website, citing potential fraud risks. |
| January 22 2025 | Shopify Rebellion Gold becomes the first Game Changers team to qualify for Valorant Challengers, the second tier of the game's esports competition. |
| January 17 2025 | Charles White Jr. (Cr1TiKaL) and Ludwig Ahgren are announced as co-owners of Shopify Rebellion, with Moist Esports merging into the organization. |
| 2024 | Shopify reports that Shop Pay has grown to over 150 million users worldwide and becomes an accepted payment method on Facebook and Instagram. |
| 2024 | Shopify Rebellion's Valorant Game Changers roster wins the championship again, defeating MIBR GC 3-0 in the final and becoming the first two-time champions. |
| November 2024 | Bloomberg revealed criticism from the Anti-Defamation League and Stop Antisemitism about Shopify hosting an online store with antisemitic merchandise. Shopify had removed its previous ban on 'hateful content' in July 2024. |
| June 2024 | Shopify acquired Threads, a business communication startup, for an undisclosed amount. |
| June 3 2024 | Shopify announced the acquisition of Checkout Blocks, an App Store app enabling no-code checkout customizations. |
| May 2024 | Shopify experienced its most significant stock price decline after reporting a surprise loss in Q1 and warning about reduced revenue growth from the logistics business sale. |
| 2023 | TikTok discontinued its product selling service with Shopify. |
| 2023 | Shopify released its yearly financial report, reporting total revenue of $7.1 billion and a Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) increase of 20% to $235.9 billion compared to the previous year. |
| 2023 | Shopify Rebellion's Valorant Game Changers roster wins the 2023 Game Changers Championship, defeating Team Liquid Brazil 3-2 in the final. |
| September 2023 | Shopify Rebellion acquires TSM's League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) franchise slot and forms a joint-venture Valorant partnership with Moist Esports called Moist x Shopify (MxS). |
| August 2023 | Shopify Rebellion signs NuckleDu for Street Fighter. |
| June 2023 | Shopify announced a legal fight against 'patent trolls' and filed a lawsuit targeting those who orchestrate numerous patent litigation cases. |
| May 2023 | A class-action lawsuit for $130 million was filed by employees who had been laid off from Shopify. |
| May 2023 | Shopify wound down its logistics business, selling Deliverr and 6 River Systems to Flexport and Ocado Group respectively. As part of the Flexport deal, Shopify received a 13% stake in the company and established Flexport as its official logistics partner. |
| 2022 | Shopify partnered with Twitter to allow merchants to sell products via the social media app. The company also made a $100 million strategic investment in Klaviyo. |
| December 2022 | Shopify Rebellion creates a Dota 2 division. |
| October 2022 | Shopify acquired Remix, a full-stack TypeScript framework providing fast page loads and instant transitions. |
| August 2022 | Shopify made Klaviyo the recommended email solution partner for Shopify Plus and invested US$100 million strategically in the company. |
| July 2022 | Media Matters criticized Shopify for hosting the online store of far-right, anti-LGBT influencer Libs of TikTok. Shopify maintained that the store did not violate their Acceptable Use Policy. |
| July 26 2022 | CEO Tobi Lütke announced immediate layoffs of approximately 10 percent of the workforce, citing miscalculated growth expectations. |
| June 2022 | Shopify partnered with Twitter to launch a sales channel app for U.S. merchants and partnered with PayPal to offer Shopify Payments to merchants in France. |
| May 5 2022 | Shopify announced the acquisition of Deliverr, a San Francisco-based ecommerce fulfilment startup, for US$2.1 billion in cash and stock. |
| April 11 2022 | Shopify announced the acquisition of Dovetale, an influencer marketing startup from New York. |
| March 22 2022 | Shopify introduced Linkpop, a product for creating a branded social marketplace to help merchants advertise and market products via social media links. |
| January 2022 | Shopify Rebellion establishes a Halo esports division. |
| January 18 2022 | Shopify partnered with JD.com to help U.S. merchants expand operations in China by listing products on JD's cross-border e-commerce platform. |
| 2021 | Shopify created Hydrogen, an open-source headless JavaScript stack for client-facing storefront applications, built on React and Remix. |
| 2021 | About half of Shopify's C-level executives left the company. |
| December 2021 | A group of publishers including Pearson Education, Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and McGraw Hill sued Shopify for failing to remove listings of pirated books and learning materials. The lawsuit was settled out of court amicably, with details undisclosed. |
| June 2021 | Shopify Rebellion enters Valorant esports, signing a roster for the Valorant Champions Tour Game Changers series. |
| June 29 2021 | Shopify removed the 20% revenue share for app developers that make less than US$1 million per year. |
| June 11 2021 | Shopify acquired Primer, an AR app that allows users to preview home improvement items digitally. |
| April 2021 | Shopify made its first entry into last-mile logistics by investing in Swyft, a Toronto-based digital logistics startup. The Series A funding round totaled $17.5 million and was co-led by Inovia Capital and Forerunner Ventures. |
| April 2021 | Shopify Rebellion expands into Rocket League by buying out the Kansas City Pioneers' division. |
| February 19 2021 | Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke announces the formation of Shopify Rebellion, starting with a StarCraft II division and recruiting players like 2016 WCS champion ByuN and Scarlett Hostyn. |
| January 13 2021 | With Affirm's IPO, Shopify's 8% stake in the company became worth $2 billion. |
| 2020 | Shopify app partners collectively earned over $230 million on the platform. The company also partnered with TikTok to allow merchants to sell products via the social media app. |
| November 2020 | Shopify announced a partnership with Alipay to support merchants with cross-border payments. |
| September 2020 | Shopify confirmed a data breach where customer data for up to 200 merchants was stolen by two 'rogue members' of its support team. The stolen data included names, addresses, and order details, but did not include complete payment card numbers. The matter was reported to the FBI, and the two employees responsible were fired. |
| May 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shopify announced a shift to permanent remote work for most of its global workforce. |
| April 2020 | Arrive was rebranded as Shop, combining customer-facing features under a single brand. |
| February 21 2020 | Shopify announced plans to join the Diem Association (formerly Libra Association) and rebranded Shopify Pay as Shop Pay. |
| January 2020 | Shopify announced plans to hire in Vancouver, Canada, while the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to lifting its stock prices. |
| September 9 2019 | Shopify announced the acquisition of 6 River Systems, a Massachusetts-based warehouse robotics company, in a cash-and-share deal worth US$450 million, finalized in October. |
| August 14 2019 | Shopify launched Shopify Chat, a native chat function allowing merchants to have real-time conversations with customers visiting their online stores. |
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