Resolution 43 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Regional preparations for world telecommunication standardization assemblies

Resolution 44 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Bridging the standardization gap between developing and developed countries

Resolution 54 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Creation of, and assistance to, regional groups

Resolution 55 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Mainstreaming a gender perspective in ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector activities

Resolution 67 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Use in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the languages of the Union on an equal footing and the Standardization Committee for Vocabulary

Resolution 68 - (Rev. Hammamet, 2016) - Evolving role of industry in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector

Resolution 74 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Enhancing participation of Sector Members from developing countries in the work of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector

Resolution 75 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector's contribution in implementing the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, taking into account the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Resolution 76 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Studies related to conformance and interoperability testing, assistance to developing countries, and a possible future ITU Mark programme

Resolution 77 - (Rev. Hammamet, 2016) - Enhancing the standardization work in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector for software-defined networking

Resolution 78 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Information and communication technology applications and standards for improved access to e-health services

Resolution 80 - (Rev. Hammamet, 2016) - Acknowledging the active involvement of the membership in the development of ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector deliverables

Resolution 83 - (Hammamet, 2016) - Evaluation of the implementation of resolutions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly

Resolution 85 - (Hammamet, 2016) - Strengthening and diversifying the resources of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector

Resolution 87 - (Hammamet, 2016) - Participation of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector in the periodic review and revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations

Resolution 90 - (Hammamet, 2016) - Open source in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector

Resolution 91 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Enhancing access to an electronic repository of information on numbering plans published by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector

Resolution 92 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Enhancing the standardization activities in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector related to non-radio aspects of international mobile telecommunications

Resolution 94 - (Hammamet, 2016) - Standardization work in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector for cloud-based event data technology

Resolution 95 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector initiatives to raise awareness on best practices and policies related to service quality

Resolution 96 - (Hammamet, 2016) - ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector studies for combating counterfeit telecommunication/information and communication technology devices

Resolution 98 - (Rev. Geneva, 2022) - Enhancing the standardization of Internet of things and smart cities and communities for global development

Resolution 99 - (Geneva, 2022) - Consideration of organizational reform of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector study groups

Internet of things and smart cities and communities standards roadmap

Functional architecture of network-based driving assistance for autonomous vehicles

How to increase QoS/QoE of IP-based platform(s) to regionally agreed standards

HSTP-IPTV-AM101 - Introduction to the ITU-T H.741-series - A new video engagement audience measurement standard

Standardization of Trust Provisioning Study

Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Dubai

Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Singapore

Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Moscow

Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Dubai

Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Singapore

FSTP.SS-OTA - Standardization survey for over-the-air updating in vehicles

Case Study - Towards a Circular Economy with the Implementation of ITU International Standards in Costa Rica

QSTR-USSD - Low resource requirement, quantum resistant, encryption of USSD messages for use in financial services

XSTR-XAASL - Framework for security standardization for virtualized services

XSTR-SUSS - Successful use of security standards (2nd edition)

XSTR-SUSS - Successful use of security standards

XSTR-PKIS - Current and new challenges for public-key infrastructure standardization

XSTP-5GsecRM - 5G security standardization roadmap

Implementation of the ITU-T international standards for the sustainable management of electrical and electronic equipment: on the road to a circular economy in Argentina

YSTP.AIoT - Challenges of and guidelines to standardization on artificial intelligence of things

Guidelines for day sales outstanding (DSO) management

Standardization terms and trends in energy efficiency

Implementation of the generic mechanism in the IEEE 1905.1a-2014 standard to include applicable ITU-T Recommendations

Software tools for speech and audio coding standardization

A 48/56/64 kbit/s data-circuit terminating equipment standardized for use on digital point-to-point leased circuits

Workshop on e-Health Standards for Interoperable Services
Source: Rapporteur Q28/16
Study Questions: Q28/16

Shares of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) are skyrocketing in early-morning trading after the company announced its Q3 2024 results, which beat expectations. As of the time of this writing, SHOP stock is up an impressive 23% to above $110 per share. 

However, Shopify’s stock isn’t on fire only because of its good Q3. There are some other reasons why Shopify is exciting investors this morning. Here’s what to know:

Shopify’s ‘outstanding’ results

Shopify would probably disagree with the statement that the company had a good Q3. As the company’s president, Harley Finkelstein, said in a press release, the results were “outstanding.”

Why was the quarter so outstanding? A big part of it was the company’s Q3 revenue, which came in at $2.16 billion. That represents a whopping 26% year-over-year growth rate from Q3 2023.

As Reuters notes, it even surpassed many analysts’ lofty expectations of $2.11 billion in revenue, leading to the ninth time in a row that the company has beat analyst expectations on sales.

Not only did Shopify beat analyst expectations again, but its 26% revenue growth for this quarter marked “our sixth consecutive quarter of greater than 25% revenue growth excluding logistics,” Shopify CFO Jeff Hoffmeister said.

In a slide deck, Shopify also announced that as of Q3 2024, the company had facilitated $1 trillion in global sales since the platform’s inception and that it now has a 10% share of the U.S. e-commerce market.

Okay, but why did Shopify have such a good Q3?

As also noted by Reuters, Shopify attracted more merchants to its online e-commerce platform this quarter. One of the attractions for the merchants seems to be a new artificial intelligence tool Shopify started rolling out in June called Sidekick.

Sidekick is an artificial intelligence assistant currently in early access for some merchants. Shopify says the AI bot “will act as your very own advisor, guiding you with tailored, skilled advice to make your business stronger.”

It does this by shouldering some of the mundane but necessary tasks that any businessperson needs to do to manage their business. Sidekick can help easily keep track of a merchant’s inventory, generate myriad reports that reveal new insights about your business, and even suggest ways to attract more customers to a storefront.

Sidekick is in addition to another AI tool Shopify offers, this one called Shopify Magic, which helps merchants create product images for their wares, write product descriptions, and even help them generate FAQs for their stores.

These AI tools are making it easier than ever for customers to manage their storefronts, and their availability is clearly a draw for some merchants.

The future looks promising, too

But Shopify’s stock isn’t only surging because the company had a terrific Q3. If anything, investors seem most excited about what the company has predicted will happen next.

Shopify’s current quarter, Q4, is arguably the most important of the year for the company and its merchants. This is the all-important holiday shopping quarter—and Shopify has anounced it has strong hopes for the period.

The key metric that Shopify has forecast is its revenue expectations for Q4, which the company says it expects will “grow at a mid-to-high-twenties percentage rate on a year-over-year basis.”

That’s music to investors’ ears, as it means Shopify expects it may do even better in Q4 than its just-completed outstanding Q3. That revenue growth estimate is also more than the 22.7% revenue growth many analysts were expecting, noted Reuters.

A resurgent stock

Shopify’s stock started 2024 with prices hovering in the high seventies before dropping to the low sixties over the summer. But since the beginning of the fall, SHOP shares have been on an upswing. Today’s 23% surge means SHOP shares are actually up over 38% year-to-date.

However, despite the resurgent stock, SHOP shares are nowhere near their all-time high of above $152 per share. Those highs were achieved in mid- to late-2021 when e-commerce was enjoying a pandemic boom as more people preferred online shopping over brick-and-mortar stores.