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Google Wants to Own Your Shopping Cart, Too

Ivana Soldat

The Universal Cart promises to let you shop across Nike, Target, Wayfair and more in a single checkout. Whether you ...

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Google and Mastercard Hand AI Payment Protocols to FIDO Alliance

Ivana Soldat

Google and Mastercard have transferred their competing AI agent payment frameworks to the FIDO Alliance, the standards body best known ...

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Google Teams Up With Shopee-Owner Sea on AI Ecommerce

Kale Havervold

Sea, the owner of Shopee, which is one of the largest ecommerce platforms in Southeast Asia, expanded the company’s partnership ...

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Google and Canada’s Largest Retailer Partner on AI Shopping

Kale Havervold

Canada’s largest retailer, Loblaw Companies Limited, recently announced that the company is partnering with Google to allow AI shopping in ...

Google Launches ‘Direct Offers’ to Negotiate Deals in AI Mode

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Google Launches ‘Direct Offers’ to Turn AI into a Salesperson

Tauras Sinkus

Google announced a new advertising feature called Direct Offers today. This tool is designed to negotiate deals with high-intent shoppers ...

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Shopify and Google Create the Standard for Agentic Commerce

Kale Havervold

Recently, Shopify and Google co-developed the Universal Commerce Protocol to set the standard for AI agents to connect and transact ...