Instant trade-in is currently available to a limited number of users, and only for one trade-in per user. If you’re eligible, ...

Chiara Munaretto, Managing Partner of Stablecoin Insider, identifies the 7 checkout frictions killing Shopify conversion rates in 2026, and the fixes that recover lost revenue.

Elizabeth Warren presses Google for clarity on Gemini checkout privacy as the Universal Commerce Protocol expands AI-led shopping across major retailers.

Warren is asking Google for more details about the kinds of data it will send to retail partners — and how much. Warren is asking Google for more details about the kinds of data it will send to retail ...

Critics are connecting “personalized upselling” language to the idea of individualized price manipulation. Google says upselling is about showing premium options, not raising prices. Google says its ...

Google introduces a new ‘Checkout’ feature in Gemini and Search AI Mode, allowing US users to make direct purchases through conversations with AI. PCWorld reports that Google launched the Universal ...

Checkout on Google surfaces could reduce site visits, which may limit how often shoppers see a retailer's onsite merchandising and cross-sells. Depending on what reporting Google provides, retailers ...

Google’s new universal checkout protocol aims to complete the purchase for you directly within a Gemini chat or AI search interface. Google built the Universal Commerce Protocol with input from major ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. To power this evolution, commerce infrastructure needs to be open, secure ...

To further push the limits of consumerism, Google has launched a new open standard for agentic commerce that's called Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). In brief, it's a framework that combines the ...

Photo Credit: Google introduced Universal Commerce Protocol at NRF on Sunday. UCP is designed to let AI agents handle discovery, checkout, and post-purchase support. Courtesy of Google Google wants AI ...

It was only a matter of time — following in the footsteps of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, Google is launching direct checkout on eligible product listings in the AI Mode section of Google ...