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Google Weighs New Search Layout for Vertical Search Players to Avoid EU Fine

Google Weighs New Search Layout for Vertical Search Players to Avoid EU Fine
Google Weighs New Search Layout for Vertical Search Players to Avoid EU Fine
February 25, 2026  |  Google

Google plans to test showing competitors’ search results near its own across Europe in an attempt to avoid a European Union fine, Reuters reported Wednesday...

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Stripe Builds Its Own Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments
Stripe Builds Its Own Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

FinTech Stripe has spent much of its operational history making it easier for merchants to plug into the financial system. Now, it is trying to...

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Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
February 25, 2026  |  Investments

Tether Investments said it aims to promote the use of stablecoin payments by making a strategic investment in Whop, an internet market designed to help...

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OpenAI Intelligence Report Identifies New Tactics in AI-Enhanced Scams
OpenAI Intelligence Report Identifies New Tactics in AI-Enhanced Scams
February 25, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Criminals are using artificial intelligence in combination with websites, social media and other tools to carry out scams and other malicious operations, OpenAI said Wednesday...

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Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a...

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Lowe’s Deploys Digital Tools to Power Growing B2B Sales
Lowe’s Deploys Digital Tools to Power Growing B2B Sales
February 25, 2026  |  Earnings

Home improvement company Lowe’s saw growth in its Pro, online and Home Services businesses in the fourth quarter while the do-it-yourself business remained muted. Get...

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Installment Payments Come to Luxury Retail as Wealthy Buyers Feel Price Pressures
Installment Payments Come to Luxury Retail as Wealthy Buyers Feel Price Pressures
February 25, 2026  |  Retail

About a hundred years ago, so the story goes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the Jazz Age, turned to Ernest Hemingway and remarked, “The rich...

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AI Disruption Debate Roils Markets and Refocuses Risk
AI Disruption Debate Roils Markets and Refocuses Risk
February 25, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

While everyone is worried about AI’s ability to write everything from term papers to publication-ready journalism, it was a human writing about AI that rocked...

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