platform fees

In four days this month the contours of a new commerce battleground crystallized: Microsoft rolled in-chat checkout into Copilot, Google unveiled an industry-wide standard for agentic commerce at NRF, and a raft of payments and platform players — Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, Walmart, Wayfair, Target...

A viral clip from Akon’s Bengaluru stop — showing members of the front row repeatedly tugging at the singer’s trousers while he performed — and a separate corporate move by Swiggy to add a targeted fee on certain Swiggy One orders together illuminate two very different fault lines in modern...

Spotify's recent emancipation from Apple’s rigid payment ecosystem is nothing short of historic for the streaming giant and app developers at large. Following a U.S. court ruling declaring Apple to be in “willful violation” of an earlier injunction mandating fair competition, Spotify has wasted...