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Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik, and Flipkart’s Super.money are scheduled to meet the National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday, TechCrunch has learned. The body operates the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s instant payments system that processes billions of transactions each month. The meeting comes over a year after India deferred plans to cap the market share of...

TechCrunch3d ago

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Senior citizens join the immigration fight to protect caregivers

Senior citizens gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2026, to advocate for Temporary Protected Status for immigrant caretakers. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR At 82, Rita Seibenaler has jumped into the fight over immigration. The granddaughter of Irish immigrants, Seibenaler has long felt those who come to the U.S. in search of a better life deserve a chance, too. "This is a way of paying back for that gift," she says. She's seen their hard work up close. Seibenaler lives in an independent living facility in northern Virginia, part of the faith-based nonprofit...

NPR News4d ago

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