June, 2025

June, 2025

Economy Rebounds on Import Drop and Consumer Spending Strength
A drop in imports and a pickup in consumer spending led real gross domestic product (GDP) to return to growth in the second quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) advance estimate...

Western Union Launches Money Transfer Partnership With Chipper Cash
Western Union is joining forces with two African FinTechs to provide international money transfer services. [contact-form-7] The collaboration, announced Wednesday (July 30), will see Weste...

Amazon Updates Code to Keep Out Google AI Shopping Tools
Amazon is reportedly taking steps to block other companies’ artificial intelligence shopping tools from its website. [contact-form-7] The eCommerce giant updated the code on its site to in...

Chase Launches $4 Million Grant Program as Restaurants Struggle
Chase is working with the Independent Restaurant Coalition (IRC) to provide support for American restaurateurs. [contact-form-7] The partnership, announced Wednesday (July 30), includes $4 m...

Consumers Expand Use of AI Assistants in Daily Lives
Consumers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) assistants in their personal lives as well as at work. [contact-form-7] While AI usage used to drop on weekends, that is less tr...

US Senator Raises Alarm Over Delta Air Lines’ Testing of ‘Personalized’ Pricing
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is warning that Delta Air Lines’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) to tailor airfare prices to individual customers represents a troubling shift toward what he calls “su...

Is ?Pay-For-Play? Here to Stay? The Troubling Regulatory Implications of the Paramount-Skydance Merger
On July 24, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the $8 billion-valued merger of Paramount with the Hollywood studio Skydance. But underlying the financial and technological benefits o...

All of your international packages are about to get more expensive
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free —...

Spotify’s terrible privacy settings just leaked Palmer Luckey’s bops and bangers
Have you ever wondered what bops powerful figures are listening to on Spotify? You'd be amazed what you can get with a profile search - but just in case you want them all in one place, there's ...

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too
Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 billion in revenue and a net income of $27.2 billion during Q4. Revenue ...

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