Amazon Prime Day Results And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/15/22

Amazon.com Inc.’s two-day Prime Day event this week racked up more than $12.09 billion in sales, up 8% from last year’s event, according to an estimate from Digital Commerce 360.
Privately held payments provider Stripe Inc. reduced the internal value of its shares by 28% to about $29 per share, resulting in a valuation for the company of $74 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. A previous valuation by private investors pegged the company at $95 billion.
In related news, the digital-marketing platform LTK said it is working with Stripe to enable payments to campaign creators via the LTK Connect platform.
Squire Technologies, a technology-platform provider for barber shops, launched Tap to Pay on iPhone for U.S.-based barbers in conjunction with payments provider Stripe Inc. The technology allows merchants to accept contactless card payments on an Apple iPhone with no attached device.
PayGround, a payments provider specializing in health care, launched its Payment API, an application programming interface that eases integration with PayGround’s platform for medical offices.
Authvia has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 11,144,895 by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for “Methods and Systems for Message-Based Bill Payment,” the basis for Authvia’s TXT2PAY technology, which enables customers to pay businesses with a text response.

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