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Re:Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53B by dfee on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:17AM (#48933447)
HHI and Simpsons are neat new finds.

There's also this other variant of the Simpson's Index: https://www.thesimpsonsindex.com/

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Re:Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53B by scarab92 on Friday July 17, 2026 @01:56AM (#48943774)
Payment processor margins are already very high, especially considering they are basically low-tech utilities.

If the US had functioning antitrust laws it would be looking at their margins and be considering whether to break up some of the existing players, not considering when allow even more mergers.

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