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A leading Democrat in the California Assembly is throwing her support behind a significant rewrite of the state’s antitrust laws, a move that could reshape how businesses operate across sectors ...

Danaher Corporation has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Masimo Corporation in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $9.9 billion, a move aimed at bolstering the company’s presence in patient ...

Michigan has launched an antitrust case against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, accusing them of conspiring to stifle competition from renewable energy and electric vehicles in ...

As states seek to regulate merchants’ use of so-called “surveillance,” or “dynamic” pricing powered by AI, two U.S. Senators want to establish a national policy on its use. Sen. Ben ...

Former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has established a new private law firm following his departure from office last month, according to Reuters. The firm, named Platkin LLP, will be based ...

If one theme connected fourth-quarter earnings calls across consumer packaged goods companies and discretionary brands, such as toymakers, it was the emergence of a consumer economy defined by prioritization rather ...

FedEx says it is focusing on “high-margin” clients to reach $98 billion in revenue in 2029. During its investors day presentation Thursday (Feb. 12), the shipping company outlined its strategy for reaching that goal, ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to limit the ability of large investors to expand their portfolios of single-family rental homes, stepping into a housing debate that has been simmering for ...

The cryptocurrency market’s familiar boom-and-bust cycle has entered another pronounced downswing. Capital is leaving digital assets at a pace not seen since the depths of the last crypto winter, institutional ...

Netflix Inc. is strengthening its Washington presence as it faces growing antitrust attention tied to its proposed transaction with Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal that has drawn concern from lawmakers ...

Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations. Younger and older consumers in the United States are responding to the same pressures in different ways, ...

Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand asking about its ...

Airbnb is reportedly testing a service that lets guests order groceries from Instacart. The house-sharing company will offer “kitchen stocking” as part of a three-month pilot program starting Jan. 5, Bloomberg ...

DoorDash is expanding its partnership with grocery chain Kroger to 2,700 new stores. The updated collaboration kicks off Oct. 1 and will cover deliveries of fresh foods, essential items and Kroger’s ...

On Tuesday (May 13), we may see what could arguably be the calm before a stormy sea of inflation driven by volatile tariffs. The Consumer Price Index inflation reading from the ...

Instacart has teamed with two point-of-sale (POS) providers to promote smart cart usage. The grocery technology company announced Monday (Jan. 13) new partnerships with Dumac Business Systems, a POS solutions provider ...

Inflation is at a multiyear low, according to July’s Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Department of Labor. Inflation has broken through an important psychological barrier, so to speak. The Federal ...

With order volumes increasing, Deliveroo sees opportunities from its loyalty program and grocery business. The U.K.-based delivery service on Thursday (Aug. 8) released earnings for the first half of 2024 showing ...

With ongoing financial challenges affecting consumers very differently depending on their financial standing, Kroger is seeing its initiative to improve its private-label offerings prove key to getting more budget-strapped shoppers ...

Pay later plans — those arrangements enabling consumers to cover purchases over a set period of time — are not only a popular way to shop; they have increasingly become ...

Investors were looking for answers during Carvana’s fourth quarter 2025 earnings call Wednesday (Feb. 18). And while they didn’t find them, the absence of a clear answer was, for many, ...

Walk into a top-tier mall in a high-income suburb right now and you can still feel echoes of the holiday rush: full parking decks, busy food halls and steady lines ...

Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, ...

Amazon has proposed a second big-box store in the Chicago area, Mass Market Retailers (MMR) reported Tuesday (Feb. 17), citing a paywalled article in the Chicago Tribune. The company submitted to ...

For decades, loyalty followed a familiar rhythm: Consumers earned points on credit card purchases and redeemed them later, often after months of accumulation. That structure still exists, but it no longer ...

What used to be a retail war between Amazon and Walmart is now a platform war over who embeds themselves deepest into consumers’ daily routines. Over the past week alone, a ...

A growing share of retail small businesses are not planning for the next downturn so much as financing their way through the next week, and PYMNTS Intelligence data showed just ...

Google is reportedly offering users new ways to shop while seeking AI-powered answers. The company has begun testing new ad formats on its search AI mode that lets retailers offer products ...

Ahold Delhaize saw quarterly digital sales surge as more American consumers do their grocery-buying online. The supermarket conglomerate released earnings Wednesday (Feb. 11) showing revenues up 6.1%, driven in part by ...

The eCommerce landscape is changing, and infrastructure platforms like Shopify are at the center of this shift. Shopify’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings report Wednesday (Feb. 11) delivered a complex mix ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Paysafe’s Bruce Lowthers Somewhere between the first ticket purchase and the final prop bet, $20.2 billion changed hands. That was the projected spending around this year’s ...

Banks in the U.K. are reportedly working to create their alternative to Visa and Mastercard. Executives from the country’s banking giants will meet this week on the project, driven by fears ...

Visa formed a new sub-region that includes Egypt, Libya and Sudan, saying the move will advance its strategic growth plans in the wider North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. The new ...

Latin America’s digital habits are no longer confined to retail shopping or person-to-person transfers. They are directly influencing how smaller firms  invoice, get paid, stock shelves and bridge payroll gaps. PYMNTS ...

Stablecoins promise to help businesses move money faster, cheaper and more transparently. But their path to legitimization and institutional adoption has been anything but fast, cheap or even transparent. Still, over the ...

Japan-based PayPay filed for a U.S. initial public offering Thursday (Feb. 12), saying it aims to continue expanding the capabilities of its digital finance platform. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company did ...

Payment/financial services firm Fiserv has debuted a real-time cash-settlement platform for digital asset companies. The INDX platform, announced Thursday (Feb. 12), is designed to help digital asset companies securely store and ...

This edition of “The Prompt Economy™ Tracker®” examines how tokenization is emerging as the foundational trust layer for agentic AI and the next generation of digital commerce. Through the narrative persona of ...

Fiserv is touting the results of its “OneFiserv” plan after a rocky quarter late last year. The payments giant released quarterly results Tuesday (Feb. 10) showing the company navigating shifting consumer ...

Not long ago, FinTechs and credit unions often approached each other from opposite sides of the same market. Today, they increasingly meet in the middle, trading rivalry for collaboration as both ...