- December 1, 2023
![AI 1.0 Is Already Accelerating Industry 4.0’s Innovation Pace](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AI-Industrial-Revolution-SymphonyAI.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving industry 4.0 a shot in the arm.
The bleeding edge computing innovation is driving future-fit efficiencies within historically fragmented and labor-intensive industries, slotting productively into the current ...
- October 31, 2023
![What Lighting a Fire Tells Us About Igniting Threads and the Billionaires’ New City](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Meta-thread-microblogging.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
It never hurts to brush up on basic skills, like how to make a roaring campfire in the woods before taking that next backpacking trip. How you make one also provides ...
- October 4, 2019
![The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Drum-Kabbage.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they ...
- September 6, 2019
![How Digital Platforms Are Revolutionizing The $100B Flower Biz](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/John-Tabis-1.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
There are worse ways to start a business than what happened when John Tabis was getting direct-to-consumer and subscription flower operation The Bouqs off the ground.
As the story goes — the ...
- August 6, 2019
![Weddings, The Millennial Way? There’s A Marketplace For That](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sam-McElhinney.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for ...
- July 29, 2019
![Vesicash Uses Escrow To Ignite eCommerce In Africa](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Ibrahim-Oladele.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The common view about Africa – once found in recent PYMNTS coverage – is that the vast, varied and massively populated continent represents the next frontier for eCommerce.
The middle-class and disposable incomes are ...
- June 13, 2019
![Mapping The Maps For Self-Driving Cars (And Drones)](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/New-Feature-Image-6.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
If one doesn’t know where they’re going, sang one Beatle, any road will get them there — but not easily or efficiently. In an age of eCommerce (of two-hour delivery ...
- May 21, 2019
![How To Make Gig Workers Feel Smarter About Taxes](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Paul-Koullick-SB3.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Most of us, upon spotting a $10 bill on the ground, would pick it up and pocket it, assuming we were sure we were not stealing that money. It’s pretty ...
- May 8, 2019
![Will Marketplaces Take Over eCommerce Completely?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mirakl-eCommerce-Marketplaces.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The world is becoming one big marketplace — even if the marketplace doesn’t always look like one. That’s not some ancient riddle updated for these roaring days of digital commerce ...
- April 22, 2019
![Freelancer.com CEO: Platforms And The Future Of Product Development](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Freelancer5.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one. And as Freelancer.com CEO and Chairman Matt Barrie told Karen ...
- April 15, 2019
![Can A Digital Platform Make The Grade With Teachers Trying To Buy Homes?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Alex-Lofton-Feature-Image.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Talk with old-timers from the Bay Area – or people approaching old-timey status – and there’s a good chance you’ll hear stories, lamentations and rants about how that metro area ...
- April 10, 2019
![Utility Data’s New Identity](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Urjanet-Utility-Data.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how ...
- April 9, 2019
![Can Visual Search Help Retailers Find New Sales?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slyce-Visual-Search-Retail.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Amazon failed Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce, a visual search firm, when it came to the cheesy sweater — the one with, in his words, “little teddy bears all over it.” ...
- April 8, 2019
![Can Platforms And Payments Solve Restaurants’ 73 Percent Turnover Problem?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/shutterstock_1176110662.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker turnover rate is 73 percent every single year. This was ...
- April 5, 2019
![One-Stop Digital Procure-To-Pay For One-Person Shops](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Oz-Alon-Feature-Image.png?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a similar story. They identified a ...
- April 2, 2019
![How Platforms Turn Agents Into Digital Real Estate Quarterbacks](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/shutterstock_1018259074.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The home-selling season is upon us — and will be for the next several months. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sold in the U.S. sell between March and August each year, ...
- March 18, 2019
![Will Consumers Want To Monetize Their Own Data?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Consumer-Data-Blockchain.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
If headlines are any indication, data breaches have made off with consumers’ most sensitive bits of information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card info and bank details. Advertisers pay ...
- March 12, 2019
![How Neighborhood Goods Is Breathing New Life Into The Department Store Model](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PYMNTS-Neighborhood-Goods-Matt-Alexander.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
For physical retail, and department stores in particular, it’s both the best of times and worst of times. The headline topping the news this week was that, in 2019, more ...
- March 8, 2019
![Strange Bedfellows? Trade Unions And Gig Marketplaces](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Trade-Unions-Gig-Marketplace.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
In the U.K., says Labour Xchange Co-Founder Jonathan Key in the latest Matchmakers podcast, millions of people are underemployed. Matching ad hoc employees to work they want to do with employers ...
- March 1, 2019
![Why Retailers Are Crowdsourcing Delivery](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Roadie-Retail-Crowdsourcing-Delivery.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid to go home, but doing so in a ...
- January 16, 2019
![With This Ring, I Thee Pay — Buy, And Authenticate](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Motiv-wearable-payments.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Human wrists deserve a break when it comes to payments, commerce and even authentication, right? To put it another way: Is there a better way to do wearables, to appeal ...
- December 26, 2018
![How Matchmakers Ignite: 2018 Edition](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-PYMNTS-Matchmakers.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Matchmaking businesses aren’t exactly a new idea — though the breathless enthusiasm of the tech press might lead one to mistakenly believe that the concept sprang into existence in 2009 ...
- December 5, 2018
![Is #donate The First Step To #buy?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/charity-hashtag-digital-payments.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
By almost any measure, John Gossart, COO and Co-founder of fundraising resource Goodworld, has done more than his fair share of public service. He served two decades in the military and ...
- October 31, 2018
![Doctor On Demand CEO Talks Walmart Partnership And Telemedicine's Expansion](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Doctor-On-Demand-Walmart-Telemedicine-Partnership.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
When last year’s flu vaccine turned out to be ineffective 80 percent of the time, it did not necessarily have to turn into a flu pandemic. The good news about ...
- October 17, 2018
![Divvy Founders On Building A Millennial Bridge Between Renting And Homeownership](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Divvy-Homeownership-Millennials.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
For much of the early 2010s, there was an emerging piece of conventional wisdom that millennials were on the verge of radically breaking from the behavior of their older siblings, ...
- October 3, 2018
![How Picfair Plans To Shake Up Shutterstock (And Photo Marketplaces)](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Picfair-photography-marketplace.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Before Benji Lanyado founded photography marketplace Picfair, he was a journalist covering the travel beat for a “publication whose name you would know” facing an ongoing problem. The images he had to ...
- August 1, 2018
![The Operating System For Employer-Funded Healthcare](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/smb-healthcare-labor-department.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
No matter the industry, nearly all U.S. employers are in the healthcare business, a reality reflected on balance sheets, and one that can keep even the most stoic CFO sleepless ...
- July 18, 2018
![A Marketplace That Delivers Business Beauty On Demand](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/shutterstock_592880852.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Businesses of all kinds have a need for high-quality photo and video content on a near-constant basis. Even in a retail era where businesses and brands actively solicit user-created photos ...
- July 13, 2018
![Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Data_Speed.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, the absence of which can produce a sharp sensation of dread and perhaps even spark panic. A growing number of companies are coming to ...
- July 11, 2018
![HomeLight: Why Buying A House Should Be As Easy As Buying A Toaster](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/shutterstock_136157789.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The process for buying a toaster oven should not be more transparent or more reliable than the process for buying a house.
A toaster oven — even if things go poorly ...
- July 4, 2018
![Papa Platform Gives Grandkids On Demand](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Papa-Grandkids-On-Demand-PYMNTS-.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
There is a lot to be gained by matching senior citizens with college students, a lesson learned by Papa Founder and CEO Andrew Parker when he did some manual matchmaking ...
- June 25, 2018
![Hyperwallet CEO: PayPal Acquisition Will Help Hyperwallet ‘Pay The Planet’](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/matchmakers-hyperwallet-independent-workforce.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
From music royalties to airline vouchers, there are many reasons organizations may need to push payments to individuals in various amounts, currencies, forms and frequencies, including real time. For instance, ...
- June 20, 2018
![Can Digital Marketplaces Make Offices Run Better?](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/office.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The good thing about absentee landlords, or oft-maligned open-space offices? They provide an opening for businesses that can use digital technology to match office managers with the suppliers and service ...
- June 13, 2018
![Karen.care: Building And Monetizing Marketplace For Elder Care Needs](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/shutterstock_435998341.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
As the Silent Generation is aging deeper into their 80s, and the oldest members of the Baby Boomer Generation are celebrating birthdays deeper into their 50s, elder care in the United ...
- May 30, 2018
![How One Matchmaker CEO Is Bringing Back House Calls](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ghx-healthcare-supplier-accounts-receivable-automation.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
It’s an experience that almost every American adult can relate to: the holiday trip to an emergency room with an injured or sick child that becomes a half-day experience.
It’s usually prompted by a just ...
- May 11, 2018
![SoundHound GM: The Future Of Voice May Not Go By ‘Google’ Or ‘Alexa’](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/shutterstock_216638152.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope the DJ said the title and artist so ...
- April 18, 2018
![Trade Credit’s $2.5 Trillion Ticking Time Bomb](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/businessdebt.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
There is hardly a more difficult conversation to be had, CreditRiskMonitor CEO Jerry Flum told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, than the one the finance guys have with a sales guy about why they can’t ...
- April 4, 2018
![Tilr CEO: Why Algorithms Make The Best Recruiters](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/recruiting.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
The art and science of using the internet as a tool to recruit employees hasn’t just fundamentally changed once in the last 15 or so years – it has actually ...
- March 21, 2018
![Marketplace Partnership Brings Competition To Healthcare](https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ghx-healthcare-supplier-accounts-receivable-automation.jpg?w=160&h=113&crop=1)
At first, consumers weren’t bothered by the steep climb in healthcare costs, because their employers were covering their services. If they needed emergency care, all they had to do was ...