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SaaS ecommerce platform for B2C and B2B businesses, BigCommerce, has announced that former Adobe Fellow and Vice President of Technology Anil Kamath has joined the BigCommerce Board of Directors.

“Anil brings an extensive blend of strong leadership and valuable technological expertise to BigCommerce at a time when our industry and our business are going through some exciting changes. His addition to our Board will help strengthen BigCommerce’s core offerings as well as inform the innovations we are building to drive business outcomes for merchants,” said Travis Hess, CEO of BigCommerce.

Elsewhere, Boltive names a new President and Cloudflare launches a new marketplace that charges AI bots.

Featured Stories

• When CMS Meets UX Design: What Figma’s Payload Deal Really Means: “While the financial terms remain undisclosed, the strategic nature of the acquisition is unmistakable: Figma is moving beyond design into deployment.”

• Over Half of UK Marketers Switch to ‘Tiger Teams’: “When you bring content, AI, and experimentation together in one seamless workflow, you cut through the chaos and create better, more meaningful experiences at every step of the customer journey."

• Boltive Builds for the Future, Welcoming Pamela Slea as Company President: “Pamela is an innovator and she’s known for her ability to set winning strategies and scale operations in rapidly moving markets.”

• Coveo Leads 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery: “We believe this is a testament to the outstanding ROI seen by our customers and our platform’s readiness to support the complexities of B2B and B2C enterprises as they navigate the impact of AI on the future of online experiences.”

Stories that caught our eye

1. Material Announces Strategic Partnership with Optimizely: A silver level partnership for implementing composable DXP solutions.

2. Contentful’s Pivot: Ambition meets Web Content Management 4.0.

3. Cloudflare Launches a Marketplace: Websites can now charge AI bots for scraping.

4. Why Tech Decisions Are Now Business Decisions: Interoperability isn’t a feature of architecture but a function of your strategy. 

5. Language Weaver Wins Grand Prize at 2025 AI Breakthrough Awards: A notable achievement for one of RWS’ key products. 

6. DreamHost Introduces Complimentary Human-Powered Artisanal Website Builds: Included at no additional cost for all DreamHost hosting customers.

The word on the street…

1. [LinkedIn]: Are you using a headless CMS the right way?: GTM Leader at Orium Thomas Mulreid explains how some commerce companies don’t get enough out of their CMSs.

2. [Reddit]: Do CMSs have bad DevX?: This Redditor believes that most CMSs are difficult for developers to deploy/maintain/extend/migrate.