Neowin News Feed for: Stripe

AI agents can now provision Cloudflare on behalf of their users

David Uzondu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:30:02 +0000

Cloudflare has been going all in on AI lately, partnering with Stripe so coding agents can start paid subscriptions, register domains, grab API tokens, and deploy code. Read more...

ChatGPT gets online shopping support with new Instant Checkout feature

Aditya Tiwari — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:54:01 +0000

It's time to get past the questions and answers. OpenAI now lets you do online shopping in ChatGPT. Read more...

Microsoft Teams launches its new Payments app in public preview

John Callaham — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:16:01 +0000

The new Payments app will allow small businesses to collect money from an online Microsoft Teams meeting on the desktop or mobile platforms, including support for PayPal, Stripe, and more providers. Read more...

Amazon to lay off thousands of employees amid economic turmoil

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:42:01 +0000

E-commerce giant Amazon is planning to lay off around 10,000 employees in corporate and technology jobs as soon as this week. The job cuts will affect people in Amazon's devices org, including Alexa. Read more...

Stripe is set to cut over 1,000 jobs to lower its costs as economy worsens

Paul Hill — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:41:37 +0000

The online payment processor, Stripe, is going to lay off more than 1,000 employees due to a worsening economy. The cuts will primarily hit the recruitment department, as hiring will slow next year. Read more...

Stripe valuation hits $95bn after $600m funding round

Paul Hill — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 06:32:01 +0000

Stripe, the payments processing company, is now valued at $95 billion following its latest funding round where it raised $600 million. It will use the money raised to expand its Dublin operations. Read more...

Mastercard, Visa, eBay, and Stripe pull their support for Facebook's Libra

Paul Hill — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 01:56:01 +0000

The Libra Association has lost its backing from Mastercard, Visa, eBay, and Stripe. Facebook said it was a short term blow, but in a way, liberating. The firms could return once regulation is sorted. Read more...

Visa, Mastercard, and others are having doubts over Facebook's Libra

Paul Hill — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 06:06:01 +0000

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency could see delays after insiders revealed that Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and PayPal all have doubts over the proposed cryptocurrency due to the scrutiny it's under. Read more...

Telegram's bot payment platform is now supported in more than 200 countries with Paymentwall

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:18:04 +0000

Telegram's bot payments are now supported by Paymentwall. It's the fourth company to partner with Telegram and is available in more than 200 countries. We are expecting three new partnerships soon. Read more...

Twitter expands 'Buy Now' service, making it available to more merchants

Matt Brown — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 02:04:01 +0000

Twitter has expanded the 'Buy Now' service, allowing more merchants to take part in the program. This allows customers the ability to buy products without leaving the Twitter application. Read more...

Kickstarter dumps Amazon Payments for Stripe

Jerry Grey — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:16:01 +0000

Kickstarter has dumped Amazon Payments ending its long-term relationship with the payment platform, instead it has partnered with Stripe to process payments from next week. Read more...

Apple Pay is complicated, but Stripe has its back

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:30:25 +0000

While Apple unveiled mobile payment magic at its event in Cupertino, Stripe was the one to really credit as they will be assisting Apple in making the mobile transactions quick and seamless. Read more...

Twitter to integrate "buy" button, allowing direct purchases from the site

Jett Goldsmith — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:45:06 +0000

Twitter is partnering with ecommerce service Stripe later this year to introduce "buy" buttons, allowing users to make purchases and process payments without ever leaving the site. Read more...