Pinterest has launched new collaboration tools to allow users to plan parties and projects on the site. Launching on group boards, users are able to have conversations with other members of their board through the new group activity feed. “The activity feed helps you keep...
Here’s another way to pay for Amazon Prime Video: Just put the charges on a mobile phone bill. That is what Bango, a tech company that enables online payments, and the eCommerce operator have just launched in the U.K., news that presents the opportunity to...
JPMorgan Chase on Thursday (June 28) launched a digital bank account for smartphone users dubbed Finn by Chase. According to a report in Reuters, citing the company, the new bank account is targeted at young adults who want to engage in their transactions via their mobile phones...
While peer-to-peer car (P2P) marketplaces can match borrowers with car owners, they sometimes come with a potential downside: Car owners often have to give their borrowers the keys to their vehicles in person. However, sometimes car owners on platforms such as Turo have devised their...
Thanks to search advertising, Google‘s growth has reaccelerated during the past three years — the company’s parent, Alphabet, is poised to have the best growth rate this year since 2011. According to a report in the Financial Times, the higher growth rate comes even though the...
It’s a prospective marriage that Chinese government authorities and digital commerce executives are pushing hard, including via a recently announced test involving Alibaba: combining the country’s mandatory ID program with mobile payment functions. And don’t count out the role of biometrics in making that relationship...
The QR code has had its place in retail, advertising and payments, but one Israeli tech company feels it’s time to take this low-tech solution high-tech. Amir Darbi, founder and CEO of BrightCodes, concedes that it would be a long and difficult road for any new...
Omnichannel may be the word of the year for many businesses, but for a vast swath of small, independent players, just expanding beyond the single channel of their local storefront remains a struggle. In some cases, the dream is so distant that these busy, tight-for-time...
Google provided an update on mobile shopping in a blog post Monday (May 7), saying that mobile search is making it easier for people to find what they need when they need it. According to Todd Pollak, retail industry director at Google, the Internet search...
