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  "id": 3870492,
  "title": "Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/sources-advent-and-stripe-are-no-longer-pursuing-a-deal-to-acquire",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-28T02:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28/advent-stripe-consortium-is-said-to-drop-pursuit-of-paypal"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal Holdings Inc. …",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/sources-the-ftc-has-been-investigating-whether-youtube-broke-consumer",
        "published": "2026-08-27T22:45:01.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}