May, 2025

May, 2025

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to our post about the head of ICE saying journalists should stop asking questions about ICE officers. In first place, it’s Justinf...

Administration’s Tax Bill Includes 3.5% Levy on Migrant Remittances
It could soon cost more for migrants in the U.S. to send money back home. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (May 25), that’s because the tax bill passed by the U.S. House of Representative...

Can AI-Powered Smart Glasses Help Spot Medication Errors?
Every day, someone dies from getting the wrong medication or improper dosages of the right one. Now, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are working on ways to solve this problem in part ...

China Calls for Reasonable Merchant Fees From eCommerce Platforms
China’s eCommerce regulator has issued draft guidelines for fees that companies can charge third-party merchants. The State Administration for Market Regulation on Sunday (May 25) said that online p...

Adidas: Customer Contact Info Stolen in Data Breach
German sportswear company Adidas has reported a data breach involving a customer service provider. As Reuters reported, the company announced Friday (May 23) that cybercriminals had accessed customer ...

Musk Back to ’24/7′ Work at His Companies Amid X Outage
After months of government work, Elon Musk says he is “super focused” on his companies. The multibillionaire made that comment Saturday (May 24) on his X social media platform, following an outage...

$50M RevenueCat Series C Led By Bain Capital Ventures
RevenueCat, a platform for managing consumer app monetization, has raised a $50 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Returning investors Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Volo Ve...

SukuPay Embeds In Guatemalan Mobile Bank App
This past week, SukuPay, a cryptocurrency-cross-border payments company, has been fully embedded as the remittance engine inside Zigi, the mobile app of Banco Industrial, Guatemala’s largest bank. S...

BoomFi and Paytiko to Provide Crypto Payments Rails to Merchants Worldwide
BoomFi, a payment suite bridging crypto and fiat currencies, announced a partnership with Paytiko, a payment orchestration platform. This collaboration aims to provide merchants “with access to cr...

EBA CLEARING Announces RT1 and STEP2 Participants to Adopt Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection Verification of Payee Solution
EBA CLEARING announced that over 55 RT1 and STEP2 Participants across 14 countries are preparing to adopt its Fraud Pattern and Anomaly Detection (FPAD) Verification of Payee (VOP) solution to deliver...

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