News from the IoT World

Warnings about bitcoin excess are hardly new, but when they come from Michael Burry, markets tend to pay closer attention. From hedge to hazard: Bitcoin The investor famed for anticipating the US subprime mortgage collapse has issued a stark caution: bitcoin’s structure, and the way it is now embedded in corporate balance sheets, risks turning […]

Alphabet is no stranger to outsized investment cycles, but its latest capital expenditure plans signal something more structural. With projected spending of between $175bn and $185bn in 2026, Alphabet is positioning artificial intelligence not as a feature upgrade, but as core infrastructure underpinning commerce, cloud services and enterprise software. AI demand forces a step-change in

Europe’s long-running ambition to reclaim control over its payments infrastructure has taken a tangible step forward. A new memorandum of understanding signed by Bancomat, Bizum, SIBS, Vipps MobilePay and EPI Company marks one of the most credible industry-led efforts yet to deliver a sovereign, pan-European payments alternative. Europe’s payments dependency European wallets agree cross-border rollout

When Western governments cut major Russian banks off from the Swift messaging system in the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, they hoped to choke the country’s ability to move money across borders. Stablecoins: Inside Russia’s shadow payments network Instead, the pressure has accelerated the creation of a parallel payments ecosystem that blends cash,

Mobile wallets were once presented as sleek digital accessories — a faster way to tap in store, a smooth way to pay online. That era has passed. The global wallet war Today, the wallet is becoming the central interface of the consumer economy, a hub that unites payments, identity, loyalty, lending and even commerce in

For decades, the POS terminal was a steadfast but unremarkable fixture of retail life — the small, grey box whose sole purpose was to approve or decline a card transaction. Its role was functional, its design purely utilitarian, and its intelligence minimal. The evolution of POS That world has disappeared. The modern POS (point-of-sale) is

Digital asset payments are edging closer to everyday commerce as Lydian launches a new application enabling cryptocurrency acceptance across Clover devices for crypto POS payments. Crypto moves into POS payments The move allows merchants using Clover hardware to offer customers a “Pay with Crypto” option at checkout, while continuing to receive settlement in local currency.

Visa has delivered a solid set of first-quarter results, comfortably exceeding market expectations as consumer spending remained resilient across its global network. Visa and Mastercard beat expectations Yet the numbers were not enough to placate investors, with the company’s shares sliding despite double-digit growth in earnings and revenue. For the three months to 31 December,

A quiet but consequential struggle is under way at the heart of the global financial system. The stablecoin battleground On one side sit Wall Street’s largest banks, guardians of deposits, credit creation and monetary transmission. On the other are crypto companies, arguing that stablecoins — digital tokens pegged one-for-one to sovereign currencies — represent a

OpenAI has raised a pointed warning about an underappreciated vulnerability in agentic AI systems: hyperlinks. A systemic risk for agentic AI As AI agents move beyond conversation into execution — browsing the web, retrieving data and completing tasks — links are becoming one of the most exploitable attack surfaces in the AI stack. This shift