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Diverging paths: Monzo quits, Revolut hunts US charter
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Monzo abandons its US expansion and cuts about 50 jobs as Revolut pushes for a banking charter to build a direct American lending business.
Levanta acquires Perch+ to expand Amazon marketplace
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Levanta buys Perch+ as it broadens creator and affiliate tools for Amazon sellers, adding hundreds of merchants and publishers to its platform.
Paytronix loyalty report spotlights early retention gap
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Paytronix report finds restaurant loyalty schemes must win repeat visits within 90 days, as active rates split sharply across nine concepts.
Bazaarvoice launches API to boost AI review discovery
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Bazaarvoice unveils patent-pending API to help brands and retailers surface verified reviews in AI-led shopping and search results.
Gainsight adds MCP support for AI retention workflows
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digital transformation
Gainsight adds MCP support to let customer success teams build AI agents that use live account data to automate retention and renewal work.
Cursor 3 retools coding workspace around AI agents
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agentic ai
Cursor 3 rebuilds the coding workspace around AI agents, adding cross-repository collaboration, cloud handoffs and review tools for developers.
Rithum appoints Mausam Bhatt as Chief Product Officer
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Rithum brings in former Realtor.com executive Mausam Bhatt to steer product strategy as it ramps up AI-led tools and automation across its platform.
Brands are losing the Buy Box and up to 80% of marketplace sales with it
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Brands urged to treat marketplace Buy Box loss as a distribution issue, after grey market sellers were found to be siphoning sales and trust.
Building stronger foundations for the future of retail
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Retailers are overhauling networks and governance to cut complexity, support store innovation and prepare for AI-driven operations across multiple markets.
UK firms back bank-led recurring payments over cards
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UK businesses back bank-led recurring payments as GoCardless says cards and admin costs are draining revenue and delaying collections.
UK online sales rise 11.4% in February despite dip
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Parcelhero says eCommerce kept driving UK retail in February, even as monthly sales volumes dipped and geopolitical tensions clouded the outlook.
UK SMEs favour high street banks despite lower rates
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UK SMEs stick with high street banks despite challenger rivals offering far higher savings rates and better protection options, Flagstone finds.
BlueProof named UK StartUp Awards finalist in Cambridge
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Cambridge startup BlueProof shortlisted for UK StartUp Awards after 3D event platform trial draws thousands at New Zealand festival.
Google launches Gemma 4 open AI models for devices
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Google widens its open AI push with Gemma 4, adding models for phones to high-end GPUs and native audio, video and long-context support.
Microsoft launches three new MAI AI models for Foundry
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ai ethics & governance
Microsoft expands its in-house AI push with three Foundry models for speech, voice and images, as WPP signs on to test the new tools.
Datadog launches Experiments to track product impact
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data analytics
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siem
Datadog broadens observability push with Experiments, letting product teams run A/B tests and link release decisions to warehouse and usage data.
Visa says AI agents may soon negotiate business deals
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Businesses warm to AI agents haggling over deals, but consumers remain wary of handing software full control of spending.
Anthropic finds emotion patterns shape Claude's behaviour
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ai ethics & governance
Anthropic finds emotion-linked internal patterns in Claude Sonnet 4.5 can nudge blackmail and cheating, offering new clues for AI safety.
Bybit EU picks Fourthline for EEA onboarding checks
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crypto
Bybit EU taps Fourthline to streamline EEA customer checks as MiCA raises the bar for crypto onboarding and compliance in Austria.
Flip appoints Amy McDonnell and Lee Nadler to C-suite roles
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Flip names Amy McDonnell Chief Customer Officer and Lee Nadler Chief Marketing Officer as the voice AI firm accelerates growth after a USD $20 million Series A.