April 16, 2024
Instant Payments Fuel Tipping’s Digital Evolution
From restaurants to rideshare platforms and hospitality, the rise of digital tipping is reshaping how consumers express gratitude for service. This shift toward digital gratuity represents more than just convenience...
April 10, 2024
Starbucks Renovations Include Quieter Stores, More Drive-Thrus
Starbucks is rolling out new store design features as it adds locations and renovates existing ones. During the current fiscal year that ends in October, the company plans to add 650...
April 09, 2024
Managing Third-Party Risks Emerges as Key B2B Issue
The B2B landscape is built atop trusted relationships, both formal and informal. These relationships can include partnerships and collaborations with third-party vendors, suppliers, contractors, service providers and more; and while...
April 08, 2024
Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Pivot: Reimagining Tech
Amazon is scaling back its artificial intelligence (AI) system that lets customers leave stores without having to provide payment, and experts say there are lessons to be drawn from this decision....
April 08, 2024
Standardization Key to Scaling Paperless Invoices Across Fragmented B2B Marketplace
No two businesses are exactly the same. In that sense, they join the rarified air of fingerprints and snowflakes. But nearly all businesses do share one thing in common: the...
April 04, 2024
Workflow Automation, Flexible Financing Top This Week in B2B Innovation
It is a testament to the business-to-business (B2B) landscape that firms tend to pivot toward, and not away, from it. After all, you hear a lot more about one-time business-to-consumer...
April 04, 2024
Small Businesses Seek Capital From Innovative Lending Solutions
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their owners are the backbone of local economies worldwide. And they haven’t had it easy, not recently. That’s because they have to big needs:...
April 03, 2024
Ulta Warns of Cooling Demand Amid Ongoing Consumer Caution
After years of strong sales growth, Ulta Beauty is warning of a slow period ahead. The retailer’s chief executive said Wednesday (April 3) that he expects moderate mid-single digit sales growth, sending the...
April 03, 2024
Wave Teams With Check to Upgrade Small Business Payroll
Payroll infrastructure company Check has teamed with Wave, a money management platform for small businesses. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 3), will let the more than 300,000 small businesses using...
