Published on: 2025-06-03 21:57:31
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google Wallet will soon no longer let you pay with your PayPal account in the US. On a help center page spotted by Android Authority, Google says it will stop supporting the payment method and automatically delete linked PayPal accounts on June 13th, 2025. The company has also stopped letting users link PayPal accounts to Wallet as of April 11th. N
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 05:30:03
If you're enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan, expect your student loan payments to increase. Getty Images/CNET If you're one of the eight million student loan borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, you may have seen student loan payments as low as $0. With the SAVE plan officially struck down, you might be worried about how much you'll be required to pay in the future. Although the Department of Education offers several other income-dri
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 12:50:00
Payments likely won't resume before the end of the year. But when they do, yours are likely to go up. Getty Images/CNET The Biden administration's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan offered relief to millions of federal student loan borrowers. Under this income-driven repayment (IDR) plan, around 8 million borrowers would have seen their monthly payments capped at a portion of their income -- with roughly half of these borrowers owing $0 per month. But with SAVE officially struck down,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 12:45:03
Pla2na/Getty Images/CNET It's been a trying year for anyone enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education student loan repayment plan. There's been a barrage of student loan updates in 2025: proposed changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, an effort to restart collections on defaulted student loan accounts and a new Republican-fronted bill seeking to change existing income-driven repayment plan options. But the biggest news for most borrowers has been the court ruling blocking
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 09:00:02
Getty Images/CNET About 8 million federal student loan borrowers had hopes of smaller monthly payments and lower lifetime costs when the Biden administration rolled out the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan in 2023. But with SAVE officially shot down, you may be worried about how your monthly payments could change. Under income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, many borrowers who fell below certain income levels have had their payments lowered to $0 per month since March 2020. T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 11:00:07
Pla2na/Getty; CNET If you're one of the eight million borrowers who signed up for the Saving on a Valuable Education student loan repayment plan, you're probably wondering what's next for your student loans. There has been a barrage of student loan updates since President Donald Trump's administration came into office, including proposed changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, an effort to restart collections on defaulted student loan accounts and a new Republican-fronted bill
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 00:00:00
Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images/CNET Costco recently announced it's partnering with Affirm to offer its customers Buy Now, Pay Later plans for online purchases between $500 and $17,500. This BNPL plan lets you split a purchase into up to 36 payments across several months, and charges interest. A typical pay-in-four BNPL that you may be familiar with lets you split a purchase into four weekly payments, with no interest. However, using a BNPL plan isn't necessarily always a good deal, and un
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 17:33:58
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is expanding its “Ask someone to pay” feature for the Play Store. Users in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia will now have access to the feature. This option allows you to ask someone outside of your Google family group to pay for a transaction. Google I/O has been chock-full of announcements, ranging from Android Auto to Wear OS and everything in between. While a majority of the reveals have been AI-related, there has been plenty of news t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 21:57:13
In the latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlined some of his expectations for how Apple will remain competitive in the App Store payment processing market. Late last month, a judge ruled that Apple’s 27% commission on external payments was illegal. Many large developers have already begun implementing their own payment processing systems. Background In the United States, where most of Apple’s App Store revenue is generated, developers are now freely allowed to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 14:10:11
After the EU required Apple to allow iPhone developers to bypass the App Store’s payment system, the company has now resorted to scare tactics to fight back. Apple has added a prominent warning on these apps. This appears to violate the company’s own app guidelines, as well as likely breaking EU antitrust law … Developer Viktor Maric tweeted a screengrab, using the example of one of the most popular business apps in Hungary, Instacar. First time seeing this. Apple will punish the apps with ex
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 13:03:33
Apple is trying to dissuade Europeans from using iOS apps that support alternative payment options by making them look scary. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber spotted that a red exclamation mark icon is being prominently displayed on the App Store listing for Instacar, alongside a message warning users that it doesn’t use Apple’s “private and secure payment system.” Instacar, a three-year-old Hungarian app for checking the mileage and value of used cars, isn’t available on the US App Store. But in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:05:18
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. German iPhone users are starting to report that they’re now able to use PayPal’s tap-to-pay feature at in-store payment terminals, according to German tech site iPhone Ticker. The new capability, which PayPal announced earlier this month, is a result of the EU forcing Apple to open iPhone NFC chips up for third-party contactless payments under the Digital
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 12:17:00
Sony/CNET PlayStation 5 owners now have another way to fund their digital game purchases -- Apple Pay. You can now use the payment method natively on your console. However, Apple Pay isn't currently available on PS4 consoles. Here's how it works. Navigate to whichever purchase you're looking to make, choose your payment option on checkout, and select Apple Pay. You'll then be able to confirm your purchase using Apple Pay. You can save Apple Pay as your preferred payment method so it's as qui
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 20:54:55
Many horses, including Spotify and Amazon's Kindle Store, have already left the barn. But Apple is moving quickly to shut the external payments door opened by last week's ruling that the company willfully failed to comply with court orders regarding anticompetitive behavior. In an emergency motion filing late Wednesday (PDF), Apple described US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' "extraordinary Order" as including an injunction that "permanently precludes Apple from exercising control over c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 01:54:55
Many horses, including Spotify and Amazon's Kindle Store, have already left the barn. But Apple is moving quickly to shut the external payments door opened by last week's ruling that the company willfully failed to comply with court orders regarding anticompetitive behavior. In an emergency motion filing late Wednesday (PDF), Apple described US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' "extraordinary Order" as including an injunction that "permanently precludes Apple from exercising control over c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 22:01:47
Apple has asked the U.S. District Court in Northern California to pause the enforcement of new App Store rules following its recent loss to Epic Games. In the emergency motion filed on Wednesday, Apple requested a stay on the court’s injunction, which currently requires the company to allow developers to link to alternative payment methods in their apps. The court order stems from a years-long legal battle with Epic Games, which began after the Fortnite developer challenged Apple’s App Store b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 21:03:00
What just happened? Amazon has released an update for its Kindle app on iOS, adding a new "Get Book" button that directs users to purchase eBooks directly from the Kindle store. The e-commerce giant made this significant change following a recent court ruling against Apple, which forced Cupertino to open its mobile ecosystem to external payment options. Until recently, Apple required third-party iPhone and iPad developers to conduct in-app transactions through its internal payment system. Howev
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:04:20
The latest version of Patreon’s iOS app allows creators in the US to accept payments outside of Apple’s App Store payment system. First seen by TechCrunch, the 125.5.0 update released on Monday enables Patreon creators to link out to web payments, avoiding the up to 30 percent commission that Apple charges on in-app purchases. This follows the Epic v. Apple ruling on May 1st that blocks Apple from imposing fees on purchases made outside of apps. The expected Patreon update joins Spotify, Amazon
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 08:18:00
James Martin/CNET Zelle is experiencing an outage affecting the ability of users to send money transfers through their banks. There were 772 reports of the digital payment service's network being down as of 1:56 p.m. ET Friday, according to data from Downdetector. (Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as CNET.) A Zelle spokesperson responded in a statement and told CNET that the situation involves a third-party provider. "We are aware that certain Zelle users at some f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 12:38:03
James Martin/CNET Zelle is experiencing an outage affecting the ability of users to send money transfers through their banks. There were 772 reports of the digital payment service's network being down as of 1:56 p.m. ET Friday, according to data from Downdetector. (Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as CNET.) A Zelle spokesperson responded in a statement and told CNET that the situation involves a third-party provider. "We are aware that certain Zelle users at some f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 17:31:00
Bottom line: A day after a federal judge ruled that Apple must allow developers to offer third-party payment options using in-app links, the Cupertino giant announced key changes to its App Store policies to comply with the ruling. The revised guidelines now allow app developers to provide external links or payment gateways for app purchases and subscriptions without paying Apple a commission. According to Apple's revised guidelines, apps listed on the iOS and macOS App Stores will no longer be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 13:08:54
Apple has approved an update to Spotify’s iPhone app that makes it the first major app to support direct links for US users to pay for plans on an external site, without restrictions. Apple has been forced to change its rules on external payments following an order in its ongoing case against Epic Games. The updated app, version 9.0.40, is rolling out now on the App Store. “In a victory for consumers, artists, creators, and authors, Apple has approved Spotify’s U.S. app update,” Spotify spokesp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 20:45:15
Getty Images/Anna Barclay/Contributor AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding -- even shopping. Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network for a new era of agentic AI shopping experiences. Earlier this week, the company unveiled Visa Intelligent Commerce at the Visa Global Product Drop. According to the release, this initiative opens Visa's payment network to developers and engineers who are building agentic AI shopping experiences that find and buy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 05:04:15
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Spotify says it has submitted an update to its iOS app that would, among other things, let US customers use payment options that aren’t Apple’s, according to a blog post. The update submission follows Wednesday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that forces Apple not to take a cut of payments on non-Apple payment systems and stops Apple from dictating how developers can tell u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 13:08:42
Yesterday’s big court ruling against Apple is opening the floodgates for developers to offer their own in-app payment options with no Apple fees. As a result, unsurprisingly major companies like Spotify, Patreon, and more have confirmed they’re hard at work preparing updates to bypass Apple’s payment system and 30% fee. Alternate payment options may start appearing in apps very soon Jay Peters writes at The Verge: “This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” Taylor says. “The iO
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 13:31:18
Payments processing software provider Stripe is ready to help iOS app developers bypass Apple’s cut of App Store transactions. Following yesterday’s ruling in the Apple-Epic antitrust trial, where Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers outright shamed Apple for not permitting external payment links in apps as she had previously ruled, Stripe shared documentation that shows iOS developers how to avoid the Apple commission. In a post on X, Stripe product manager Michael Luo said the team “cooked up a quic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 17:32:15
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Patreon is planning to submit an update to its iOS app that will let creators accept payments outside of Apple’s payment system, spokesperson Adiya Taylor tells The Verge. The planned update follows yesterday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that blocks Apple from collecting fees on payments made outside of apps. “This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” Ta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 01:28:59
Payments processor Stripe has published new documentation for developers looking to accept out-of-app payments for digital goods and subscriptions on iPhone and iPad. The move follows a court ruling that bars Apple from preventing developers from directing users to web-based payment options from within their apps. Stripe charges a standard 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction — significantly lower than Apple’s 15–30% commission on in-app purchases. The key tradeoff is that Apple’s in-app purchase system
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 05:00:18
Getty Images/Anna Barclay/Contributor AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding -- even shopping. Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network for a new era of agentic AI shopping experiences. On Wednesday, the company unveiled Visa Intelligent Commerce at the Visa Global Product Drop. According to the release, this initiative opens Visa's payment network to developers and engineers who are building agentic AI shopping experiences that find and buy prod
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 17:32:47
Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments, at the New York Stock Exchange on June 3, 2021. Fintech stocks were in focus Tuesday as fresh earnings reports and analyst notes drove sharp reactions across the sector. Shift4 Payments and Upstart Holdings surged following upbeat news, while PayPal shares were slightly higher despite delivering a strong earnings beat. Shift4 shares rose more than 10% after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and raised its full-year guidance
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