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Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-21 12:58:22

In Brief PayPal announced on Wednesday a new multi-year partnership with Google that will see the payments giant using Google’s AI technology to create new AI-powered shopping experiences. PayPal’s solutions, meanwhile, will be integrated across Google’s products, and PayPal will work with Google Cloud on hosting and improving its technology infrastructure. The companies did not detail what specific types of agentic shopping experiences they would work together to create, but said Google would

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Millions of Facebook users are finally getting their payouts from the $725M privacy settlement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 08:43:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR In 2022, Meta agreed to pay a $725 million settlement to millions of users for allegedly selling their personal information to Cambridge Analytica. The company handling the payments has confirmed that the distribution of the money has commenced and will continue over the next 10 weeks. If your claim was approved, you’ll receive an email three to four days before your payment is sent. It was a while ago, but you may remember when Meta got in trouble f

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Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 16:08:06

Valve has apparently updated its Steam Early Access policy to no longer accept games with what the company deems to be "mature themes." As first reported by Gamesmarkt earlier this month, gaming studio Dammitbird, which develops the adult adventure game Heavy Hearts, was not allowed to put the title on Steam Early Access because of its content. Payment processors like Mastercard and Visa have been mounting a pressure campaign on video game marketplaces Steam and Itch.io to remove certain adults

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PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 08:58:26

PayPal is introducing a new way for people to send money to one another through peer-to-peer (p2p) payments made via personalized, one-time links. The system, called PayPal Links, complements the company’s existing feature called PayPal Me, which will continue to exist as a way to share your profile information and make it easier to get found and paid. The company explains that PayPal Me links are not payment requests tied to a specific amount — at least until the receiver inputs how much they

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PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-28 16:00:12

Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways PayPal Links lets you send and request money with other PayPal users. You can share the payment link in an email, direct message, or text. PayPal is also adding cryptocurrency as a payment method. Move over, Zelle. Watch out, CashApp. PayPal has unveiled a new type of peer-to-peer payment method that promises to be easier and simpler than other options. On Monday, the

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Just one word in the Google antitrust ruling was worth $20B a year to Apple

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-16 16:44:04

For more than a year now, there have been debates about whether Google’s payment to Apple to be the default search engine in Safari would be outlawed. While it had seemed likely this would be the case, what we got was a compromise ruling. It turned out that the difference between Apple earning $20 billion a year and $0 hinged on a single word … It had seemed likely both companies would lose The ruling just over a year ago was very clear: Google’s deal with Apple to be the default search engin

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Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-17 16:29:17

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 9, 2025. Apple shares rose more than 3% in extended trading Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that Alphabet may continue making payments to preload Google Search onto the iPhone. Although Apple wasn't a party in the search monopoly trial, the judge was considering remedies that would bar Google from paying billions per year to Apple to be the default search eng

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European banks hit by rogue PayPal payments worth 'billions'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-27 16:38:52

European banks hit by rogue PayPal payments worth 'billions' The BBC has approached PayPal for comment. The DSGV confirmed to the BBC there had been "incidents involving unauthorized direct debits initiated by PayPal against various credit institutions". It said payments were paused on Monday when lenders reported millions of suspicious direct debits from the payment firm. The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) says payments worth in the region of 10 billion euros (£8.6bn) have had t

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Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Lauren C Davis 2025-10-28 19:57:44

Conclusions Conflicts of interest among panel members of DSM-5-TR were prevalent. Because of the enormous influence of diagnostic and treatment guidelines, the standards for participation on a guideline development panel should be high. A rebuttable presumption should exist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to prohibit conflicts of interest among its panel and task force members. When no independent individuals with the requisite expertise are available, individuals w

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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 14:50:13

TOKYO - Nearly 70 percent of popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems for items and services to avoid hefty commission fees from U.S. tech giants Google LLC and Apple Inc., a Kyodo News tally showed. The move comes ahead of a new Japanese law tightening regulations on Google and Apple, which dominate smartphone platforms, set to take full effect in December. The legislation requires the two companies to open their payment systems. Almost all users currently do

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Substack lets you subscribe as an in-app purchase – but you shouldn’t

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-12 18:26:37

Indie content platform Substack now lets you subscribe to newsletters, podcasts, and video channels via an in-app purchase. However, while this removes friction from the subscription sign-up process, you definitely shouldn’t use it, for two reasons … The last few years have seen growth in subscriber-funded independent newsletters, with Ben Thompson’s Stratechery one of the earlier successful examples. Substack was created to handle the business aspects of this, leaving independent creators fr

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Substack writers can now direct US readers to (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions on iOS

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-14 03:16:50

Newsletter subscription platform Substack will begin taking advantage of an option on the U.S. App Store that allows users to make purchases outside of Apple’s in-app purchasing system. This functionality is permitted by a change to the App Store’s rules in May, as a result of Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. Since then, a number of top apps have moved to offer in-app purchase links that point to their own websites, including Spotify, Patreon, and the Amazon Kindle app, amo

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 15:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 21:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Steam's censorship issues have broken PayPal support in some regions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:42:23

If you've been unable to pay with PayPal on Steam, Valve says the limitation has to do with issues one of PayPal's banking partners has with content on the platform, according to Rock Paper Shotgun. Users have noticed PayPal was disabled in some regions as far back as July, and the issue seems like it might be out of both Valve and PayPal's hands. "In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the p

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Airbnb now lets you ‘pay later’ on vacation rentals

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-18 21:33:14

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Airbnb has introduced a new “reserve now, pay later” option that lets users in the US book a reservation without paying right away. Instead, users can put off their payment to a later date before check-in. Airbnb says it will require payment before the end of a

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Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Prendergast 2025-11-20 08:19:37

Why we're open sourcing our payments platform Since Februray, Teddy and I have worked tirelessly on Zenobia Pay. Our mission: build an alternative to high-fee card networks (Visa, Mastercard) using bank transfers as payments. We were super excited by FedNow, the Federal Reserve's instant transfer rail, which inspired us to quit our jobs and do this full time. We thought, let's build QR code payments, like Pix or UPI or AliPay, but for the US. And we did! We built an instant clearing, mobile fir

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Gboard now has new shortcut for seamless access to your credentials and cards

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 06:47:50

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard has gained a new “Autofill” shortcut that makes it easier and faster to fill out credentials and payment information. Once enabled in the On-screen keyboard settings, you’ll see the shortcut in your Gboard options. The shortcut is rolling out on the latest stable version of the keyboard, but some users are only seeing it on the beta version of the app. Gboard is getting a new “Autofill with Google” shortcut to fill in credentials and payment i

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Indian fintech Paytm wins a major regulatory battle days after key investor exit

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-24 06:08:02

Indian fintech giant Paytm has received long-awaited approval from the country’s central bank to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants — just days after one of its Chinese investors sold its entire stake — marking a key regulatory breakthrough after months of setbacks and scrutiny. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted “in-principle” approval to Paytm’s Payment Services unit to operate as an online payment aggregator, parent company One97 Communications said

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Fine-tuned small LLMs can beat large ones with programmatic data curation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 17:55:19

{ "systemInstruction" : { "role" : "system" , "parts" : [ { "text" : "# Retail agent policy As a retail agent, you can help users cancel or modify pending orders, return or exchange delivered orders, modify their default user address, or provide information about their own profile, orders, and related products. - At the beginning of the conversation, you have to authenticate the user identity by locating their user id via email, or via name + zip code. This has to be done even when the use

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Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-12 08:29:14

The outcry after a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, seemingly due to pressure from payment processors, prompted Mastercard to release a brief statement Friday pushing back against recent headlines. “Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations,” the company said, adding, “At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard

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PayPal and Venmo outage hit users Friday morning - what we know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-13 16:24:15

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Did you have trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You weren't alone. The problem has been resolved, but millions of people were scrambling to find a fix. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why

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Itch.io Is Restoring NSFW Games—as Long as They’re Free

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-13 16:24:16

On Thursday, indie gaming platform Itch.io began re-indexing some of the adult content it had delisted last month amid pressure from conservative groups and payment processors over its hosting of NSFW titles. While the move returns some content to the site’s searchable catalog, it impacts only those games, comics, and other offerings that are already free and therefore not caught in the current payment debacle. “We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be reintroduci

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Itch.io starts reindexing free NSFW content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 21:24:31

Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games, and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content. In a new Developer Update , the company said the decision will ensure it can "confidently support the widest range of creators in the long term." Itch.io has instructed developers and creators who want their games back on the store to tick a “no payments” box that sits in the pricing section of a game’s edit page. It adds that

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Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-13 21:14:57

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s a new turn in the itch.io story. In a forum post, itch.io creator and founder Leaf Corcoran has notified users that the company has begun the process of restoring thousands of NSFW pages that were deindexed — that is, content tha

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Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-14 02:14:00

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key Takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Are you having trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You're not alone. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why Shortly before 9 a.m. ET, users began reporting that both platforms were down. They

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The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-21 05:12:38

Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden notice to the creators that use the site to sell their games, books, art, and other media; it had “deindexed” all content wi

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The chaos and confusion of Itch and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-21 11:12:38

Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden notice to the creators that use the site to sell their games, books, art, and other media; it had “deindexed” all content wi

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CashApp’s cross-platform Pool tool means none of your friends have an excuse for not pitching in

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 21:34:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cash App is rolling out a new feature called “Pools.” Pools is a group payment feature that allows people to chip in money toward a large payment, whether they use the app, Google Pay, or Apple Pay. Members can be invited to a Pool in-app via their $cashtag or through a shareable link for external payments. Rounding up people for a group purchase can be a hassle, especially if some of those people use different payment apps. However, Cash App is intr

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You Can Now Use Apple Pay and Google Pay on Cash App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 20:17:00

Cash App/CNET You and your pals can now use Apple Pay and Google Pay to contribute to group payments through Cash App. The popular digital payment app announced its peer-to-peer group payment feature, Pools, which lets you set up and track group payments, including those from Apple Pay and Google Pay. "With Pools, our customers now have a dedicated, easy-to-use solution for group payments," Cameron Worboys, head of product design at Cash App, said in a statement. "They can start a pool to coll

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Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

Millions of Facebook users are finally getting their payouts from the $725M privacy settlement

Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes

PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto

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Just one word in the Google antitrust ruling was worth $20B a year to Apple

Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

Steam's censorship issues have broken PayPal support in some regions

Airbnb now lets you ‘pay later’ on vacation rentals

Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

Gboard now has new shortcut for seamless access to your credentials and cards

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Fine-tuned small LLMs can beat large ones with programmatic data curation

Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

PayPal and Venmo outage hit users Friday morning - what we know

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The chaos and confusion of Itch and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

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