PayPal and Google are collaborating on agentic shopping and commerce experiences and other initiatives to advance agentic commerce. These initiatives are part of a new multiyear strategic partnership between the companies, they said in a Wednesday (Sept. 17) press release. With the combination of PayPal’s...
Payments processor Thredd has expanded its partnership with card program company Reap. With this collaboration, Thredd will provide the infrastructure upholding Reap’s physical and virtual card programs, allowing the company to expand into the U.S. and Latin America, Thredd said in a Wednesday (Sept. 17)...
Open payments platform Spreedly acquired fraud orchestration company Dodgeball. The deal is designed to combine payments optimization and fraud management in one platform and advance Spreedly’s artificial intelligence and open payments strategy, the companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. 17) news release. Terms of the...
Human resources platform Workday is set to acquire artificial intelligence (AI) company Sana for $1.1 billion. The deal, announced Tuesday (Sept. 16), will allow Workday to offer AI agents that clients can use to automate repetitive tasks, craft presentations, and perform searches across a company’s...
AOL, a titan of dial-up internet’s heyday, could reportedly be up for sale. The company’s private equity firm owner Apollo Global Management, is considering a sale after hearing interest from a buyer, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Sept. 16), citing sources familiar with...
Affirm has announced partnerships in which it will power pay-over-time options for two software platforms for service providers: ServiceTitan, which serves commercial and residential trades, and Vagaro, which serves beauty, wellness and fitness businesses. The integration of Affirm with ServiceTitan’s digital payments solution will enable contractors to...
Cryptocurrency company MoonPay says it has acquired payment firm Meso. “This acquisition represents a major milestone in our evolution to a global payments network connecting banks, card networks, stablecoins and blockchains under a unified regulatory framework,” the company said in its announcement Monday (Sept. 15)....
Microsoft and OpenAI are getting close to an agreement on the future of their partnership. The companies said in a joint statement released Thursday (Sept. 11): “Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership. We are actively...
Specialist payments orchestration platform Paytently launched an open banking partnership with Mastercard. Paytently Open Banking is an account-to-account payment option powered by Mastercard Open Finance, the company said in a news release Thursday (Sept. 11). Customers who use the option at checkout can pay directly...