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The bigger threat may have little to do with iPhone sales.

As Bitcoin rebounds more than 41% from its July low, Coinbase and Strategy shares have rallied too, offering investors equity-market exposure to crypto's recovery.

PayPal Holdings has seen its share price fall sharply over the past few years, even as new partnerships put the company back in the headlines. With the stock around US$53.89, the question for investors is whether that price is adequately backed by the earnings the business is generating today. PayPal shares have declined 79.4% over the past 5 years, which puts the focus squarely on whether the current earnings profile supports where the stock now trades. Fresh tie ups with Meta on AI driven...

PayPal Holdings (NasdaqGS: PYPL) is now integrated with IPQualityScore within platforms such as Alloy, Shopify, and Stripe. The IPQS connection feeds fraud intelligence and digital risk signals directly into PayPal transaction and account workflows for participating merchants. The expanded integration is expected to affect customer onboarding checks, security event handling, and fraud detection rules used across the PayPal ecosystem. The new IPQS link into PayPal workflows tells only part of...

Bank of America says AI agents such as Meta's Muse could weaken Apple's grip on the valuable transactions that begin on the iPhone.

Bank of America Warns AI Agents Could Threaten Apple's $1T+ Mobile Commerce Machine

Coinbase Global (COIN) has been moving its business away from bitcoin trading and into other products. You probably still think of Coinbase as a bet on the price of bitcoin. The stock has lost 38% over the past year, while the S&P 500 returned 17.7%. A fall that deep looks like what you would expect from a company tied to bitcoin trading. So how much of Coinbase's business still comes from bitcoin trading.

The winning bidder of the Los Angeles estate was an LLC tied to the Palantir and PayPal co-founder, whose identity remained a secret for months.

Meta plans to monetize its Muse AI agent via transaction fees on e-commerce, adding Walmart, Best Buy, and Wayfair as partners while Amazon blocks Muse from its site.

Ripple's dollar-pegged stablecoin is exploding in adoption while XRP bleeds value, and the reason behind that split tells XRP holders something uncomfortable about their investment.

SOFI's stablecoin rollout adds a live payments use case as strong core growth contrasts with a valuation premium to PYPL and XYZ.

The latest trading day saw Paypal (PYPL) settling at $54.3, representing a -1.34% change from its previous close.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) trades at roughly nine times earnings, a multiple the market normally reserves for businesses it expects to shrink. The shares closed Friday at $55.04 after gaining 4.64%, leaving them about a fifth lower than a year ago. That price is itself a verdict on PayPal’s moat. The question worth asking is […]

SoFi's stablecoin push gains commercial traction through Mastercard as core growth strengthens, but its valuation premium keeps the investment case measured.

PYPL's Venmo growth and cost savings face off against UPST's AI lending gains, rising originations and ongoing credit-market risks.

Finix has introduced a significant enhancement to digital payment processing by allowing businesses to deploy custom Android applications on supported payment terminals. This development enables companies to combine their unique workflows with integrated payment processing on a single device, offering a seamless and branded in-person experience for customers. By embedding payment functions directly into business-specific applications, this innovation streamlines operations and aligns the...

PayPal's stock has cratered, but a new CEO, strong cash flow, and AI commerce bets could change the story. Here's what to watch.

Advent International, the private equity firm, is interested in buying a stake in Monzo, the British neobank which is in talks about a takeover which could value it at as much as £10bn. Sky News has learnt that Advent, which recently explored a $53bn (£40bn) bid for PayPal, is one of several buyout firms which have held initial talks about acquiring a minority shareholding in Monzo. The discussions with a small number of private equity firms have been taking place in parallel to a takeover approach from the Brazilian digital banking giant Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank.

Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal Holdings Inc. and a major Republican donor, said he doubts any 2028 GOP nominee can easily win the White House, even Vice President JD Vance, whom he has long backed. In an episode of the...

Seeking Alpha reported that traders were passing around a Betaville “uncooked” alert, or early, unverified chatter, on takeover talks for PayPal.

PayPal (PYPL) stock has gained about 24% over the past three months (as of Sept. 24, 2026), but it is still down 21% over the past year. In late August, the shares fell 13% in premarket trading after Bloomberg News reported that a consortium of Advent International and Stripe had abandoned its pursuit of PayPal.

PayPal shares rally on reports that a major tech company is interested in a buyout. Here’s how you should play PYPL stock at current levels.

PayPal Gets Fresh Buyout Buzz as New Bid Emerges After Stripe Talks Collapse

Visa's management tells its growth story differently than it did two years ago. That matters for your money. The shares cost 31 times a year of earnings, against 22.4 times for the S&P 500. A price that high assumes the growth keeps coming. One label that used to feature in Visa's results has faded. Which part of the business did Visa's management use to highlight in its quarterly results.

Coinbase Global (COIN) shares returned 40% over the three months that ended on September 24. A $10,000 holding at the start of that window was worth about $13,980 at the end. The run came even as revenue kept falling. Management had been saying for well over a year that it wanted to go beyond trading, but the latest filed numbers pointed the other way.

PayPal Holdings (PYPL) is back in focus after Meta folded its Muse AI shopping assistant into PayPal’s global merchant network, letting users move from product discovery to PayPal powered checkout inside the agent. Despite the Muse AI partnership putting PayPal Holdings back in the headlines, the share price has been under pressure in recent months, with a 30 day share price return of down 15.5% and a year to date share price return of down 9.5%. This is set against a stronger 90 day share...

Meta Platforms' (META) personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, has drawn strong user interest,

Using Mastercard and Visa’s digital infrastructure, the tool facilitates peer-to-peer payments without requiring both parties to have the same app.

PayPal Powers Meta's Muse as AI Shopping Enters New Era

Great Hill Capital Chairman Thomas Hayes suggested Meta Platforms Inc. should acquire PayPal Holdings Inc. for $90 billion, stating the deal could save Meta “5-10 years” in building a “WeChat super-app” ahead of Elon Musk‘s Xmoney. Strategic Advantage Over Xmoney...

Meta's Muse AI agent is expanding into commerce ahead of the holiday season. Can it unlock a new revenue stream?

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Former PayPal CEO Bill Harris says his direct-to-consumer AI advice app will eventually take advisors’ place.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) used its Connect event to outline an expanded artificial intelligence strategy centered on Muse, a personal agent the company said is designed to help users complete tasks, manage information and interact across devices. The event’s keynote speaker described personal su

Meta Platforms wants to dominate the personal AI space with smartglasses as the primary means of interacting with it.

For years, the promise of AI agents has been stuck in a loop of chat-based assistance. They could summarize your emails or draft your calendar invites, but they rarely moved money. Over a two-week window in September 2026, Meta changed that — assembling a commerce infrastructure that lets its Muse agent move from product discovery […]

Meta says it will profit from small fees on Muse transactions.

The payments giant sent a fortune back to its owners, yet the stock stumbled. Here’s the paradox of what that cash really bought, and what has to happen next.

As the payment company looks for new ways to drive volume, it's using the social media company's personal artificial intelligence to aid shopping and checkout.

PayPal just landed a checkout deal with Meta and another surprise partnership that sent shares jumping, but the stock is still down more than 20% over the past year and facing real headwinds that could define whether this rally sticks or fades.

Cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay is set to acquire private-markets infrastructure platform North Capital in an ...

Earlier in September 2026, Meta announced a partnership bringing its Muse AI shopping agent to PayPal’s global merchant network, allowing consumers to discover products and complete PayPal-powered checkouts directly through Muse. This move plugs PayPal into a fast-growing consumer AI commerce ecosystem, potentially reinforcing its role as a preferred payment option within emerging agent-based shopping experiences. Next, we’ll examine how PayPal’s integration into Meta’s Muse AI shopping...

The Nasdaq closes at a record for second straight day. Plus, two Fed officials on why the central bank had no choice but to raise rates.

PayPal turns out to be the biggest loser in the Roundtable 100 this week.

Financial stocks fell Tuesday with the NYSE Financial Index falling 1.3% and the State Street Financ

PayPal customers can now use Meta’s Muse artificial-intelligence consumer agent to shop and check out, PayPal said Tuesday. Shares of PayPal rose 0.5% to $52.90 after the announcement. Meta Platforms stock fell 0.4% to $738.53.

Financial stocks were lower in Tuesday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index falling 1.5%

PayPal customers can now use Meta’s Muse artificial-intelligence consumer agent to shop and check out, PayPal said Tuesday. Shares of PayPal advanced 1.2% to $53.26 after the announcement. Meta Platforms stock rose 1% at $748.94.

The Meta tie-up puts PayPal alongside Shopify and Stripe in Muse’s growing commerce ecosystem as the AI agent rapidly builds a consumer audience.

Visa (V) stock has run well ahead of the market, returning 13.5% over the past three months against 4.2% for the S&P 500. It now trades about 4% below its 52-week high. The next leg depends less on card swipes than on the services Visa sells on top of its network, which now bring in almost a third of its revenue.