Andy McHale, senior director of product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS in an interview that in the age of digital commerce, dynamic routing can be key to customers’ loyalty to merchants. And to get there, it helps to differentiate payments orchestration from payments optimization....
TikTok is apparently attempting to integrate with Lemon8, its sister social media platform. That’s according to a report Friday (Aug. 11) by TechCrunch, citing information by product intelligence company Watchful.ai. The collaboration appears to involve TikTok creating a feature that lets users sync Lemon8 posts to TikTok, and...
Is Amazon’s palm payments method a serious challenger to Apple and Google? Or is it a “solution in search of a problem?” A report Friday (Aug. 11) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) examines those questions as Amazon prepares to launch its Amazon One palm scanning payment method at more than...
Food meets apparel. It’s an interesting twist that many restaurants, specifically quick-service-restaurants (QSRs), have pursued in a bid to diversify their offerings, tapping into a wider audience and expanding their reach. QSRs are looking to engage customers beyond their dining tables or screens, and fashion...
It has been a failure to launch for business travel coming out of the pandemic. The year 2019 is still the one to beat from a profit and volume standpoint, but many airlines and third-party firms are debuting a new strategy to spur growth: targeting...
Enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions provider Ripple is among the members of a cross-border payments task force recently formed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). As part of the cross-border payments interoperability and extension task force, Ripple will work with other organizations, including Mastercard and SWIFT, in fulfilling BIS’ goal to “enhance cross-border...
Hive AI, a San Francisco-based software company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to moderate digital content, is reportedly working to raise $200 million in a funding round, with a valuation of up to $4 billion. The funding round comes two years after Hive was valued...
Retailers and trade associations across the country are pushing for state and federal laws to impose harsher penalties for those engaging in organized retail crime. Since 2022, at least nine states have passed laws to do just that, six of which have occurred this year,...
As aggregators seek to embed their offerings more deeply in consumers’ day-to-day routines, Uber is tapping Hy-Vee’s alcoholic beverage selection to drive adoption of its non-restaurant verticals while boosting basket size. On Friday (Aug. 11), the mobility and delivery company announced that Uber Eats is...
