Stripe Is Targeting Shopper Habit Formation
If Stripe’s reported pursuit of PayPal signals anything, it is that the next competitive frontier in payments may…
Microsoft’s New Security Chief Forces AI Overhaul
Microsoft’s cybersecurity business is developing more artificial intelligence (AI) security products, cutting back on some of its more…
Stripe’s PayPal Bid Puts Checkout Economics in Focus
Stripe and PayPal have spent years expanding across digital commerce from opposite directions. Stripe built its business by…
Mobile Wallets Can’t Tell a Privacy Guard From a Fraudster
Fraudsters and privacy-conscious consumers have one thing in common. Neither wants to be easily found. For years, that…
Price Hikes Trigger Smartphone Sales Slump
Global smartphone sales dropped to their lowest second-quarter level in 13 years as manufacturers passed on to consumers…
Apple Acquires Observability Platform Developer SigScalr
The list said that “SigScalr develops a data log management and observability tool” and that Apple notified the…
Microsoft Merges Enterprise and Consumer Copilot Apps
Microsoft is reportedly planning to combine its Copilot consumer and enterprise artificial intelligence apps. The tech giant is…
eDO Taps Visa to Allow AI Agents to Purchase Travel
Travel subscription company eDreams ODIGEO (eDO) is working with Visa to enable AI agents to initiate transactions on…
23% of Bridge Millennials Use 4 or More Financial Coping Tactics
Rising costs are pushing younger consumers to work harder at money management, even as fewer Americans say their…
X Opens X Money to Premium Subscribers Ahead of Launch
X has taken another step in the rollout of X Money by expanding the tool to members of…
Revolving Credit’s 10.4% Growth and Consumer Resilience
Call it the trillion-dollar question, focused on the U.S. consumer: How much longer can spending keep outpacing the…
72% of Consumers Pay for Instant Income Access
Instant payments are increasingly being judged less by how fast money moves and more by what faster access…