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Pinterest plans to extend its performance advertising capabilities to connected TV (CTV) by acquiring CTV performance advertising platform tvScientific.
The company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire tvScientific and, subject to regulatory review and other customary conditions, it expects the transaction to close in the first half of 2026, Pinterest said in a Thursday (...
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched a partnership with platform Chainlink.
This collaboration will see Coinbase use Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, allowing cross-chain transfers and expansion, the companies said in a news release Thursday (Dec. 11).
Those assets, which include cbBTC...
JPMorgan has successfully arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance on the Solana blockchain.
The issuance, performed for Galaxy Digital Holdings and purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, marks one of the earliest debt issuances ever executed on a public blockchain, the banking giant said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) news release.
It’s also one of the first debt issuances in the U.S...
When one thinks of retail competition, the battle between eCommerce and brick-and-mortar is typically what leaps to mind.
Traditionally, Amazon has been the eCommerce landscape’s leading representative, and Walmart the flag bearer for traditional physical shopping. But 25-plus years into the 21st century, that framing has come to feel almost quaint.
Walmart’s decision Tuesday (Dec. 9)...
Software company Harness has been valued at $5.5 billion following its latest funding round.
The firm’s Series E, announced Thursday (Dec. 11), was led by Goldman Sachs and brought in $200 million.
“AI has rewritten the first half of software engineering,” Jyoti Bansal, Harness co-founder and CEO, wrote on the company blog.
“The second half — everything after code — is where the next...
Shopify this week introduced its Agentic Storefronts to put merchant products directly into the AI chat interfaces, where many shoppers now begin their product searches.
The feature lets merchants publish their catalogs to artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot so that shoppers can ask questions, compare items and complete purchases in a...
Stripe has introduced a new solution designed to help brands and eCommerce platforms sell through multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
The new Agentic Commerce Suite is designed to help businesses get “agent-ready” by making their products discoverable, simplifying their checkout and allowing them to accept agentic payments, Ahmed Gharib, product lead, agentic commerce at...
Mastercard has launched a digital wallet partnership with money movement company TerraPay.
This collaboration is designed to provide the latest in digital payment capabilities to Mastercard’s wallet partners, which include mobile money wallets, FinTechs and banks, the companies said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) news release.
“Together, we’re bringing true payment interoperability to wallets...
Just a few years ago, the metaverse looked like the next platform shift, promising immersive digital worlds where people would live, work and transact at scale.
Today, Meta’s virtual universe is not dead but it certainly has shrunk and left is a sobering record of investment, stalled consumer adoption and a set of hard lessons about how innovation in payments and commerce really...