Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025
Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025
Deal will allow payments company to stay private for longer — Stripe's valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn …
OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout
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Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
compounded by the rise of AI. That shift accelerated even more than I expected. Metronome became the monetization infrastructure Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : Welcome @getmetr...
Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B
Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey. — Consumers spent record amounts online on Black Friday …
PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items, starting in 2026
PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through …
Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token
a new stablecoin created with stripe + bridge w/ baked in developer rewards, stripe merchant support, and new phantom $ features, launching on solana. [video] Ryan Rasmussen / @ras...
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants
the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh ...
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more
OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises …
OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more
OpenAI is rolling out a set of significant updates to its newish Responses API, aiming to make it easier for developers and enterprises …
Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers
OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.
Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018
Accept stablecoin payments that settle as fiat in your Stripe balance. Siamak Masnavi / CryptoGlobe : Stripe Now Allows Business to Easily Accept USDC Payments on Ethereum, Solana,...
An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more
Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.
Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions
banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company's ambition. https://stratechery.com/... Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : It's (economic) infrastructure week, again, h...
Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year
Hello! Today: A new breed of startups is trying to help other startups manage their finances better. Stripe : Stripe launches Stripe Treasury in major expansion of financial servi...