The connected economy — and specifically, connected commerce — is just getting revved up. And we mean that literally. A spate of recent partnerships and funding rounds detail the potential for the fully-connected car — combining entertainment, navigation, real-time data and diagnostics, and especially payments...
Artificial intelligence (AI) may help drive the connected car’s journey from concept to fully-fleshed reality. Mercedes-Benz said last week that it had entered a long-term strategic partnership with Google that has its roots in navigation and entertainment. And as the announcement stated, as the “first step,”...
Digital engagement has become integrated in consumers’ everyday lives across the globe. One example: Mobile wallet use has been growing in-store, replacing some shoppers’ physical wallets, even in cash-heavier countries like Japan. The PYMNTS’ Q3 2022 ConnectedEconomy™ Index, “How the World Does Digital,” measured the...
Retail sportsbooks began taking bets in Massachusetts on Tuesday (Jan. 31), although gamblers using mobile sportsbook apps will have to wait until March to place their bets that way. As of now, 11 online sportsbooks have been granted licenses in the state — Bally Bet,...
As many of us live so much of our daily lives online, data security remains top of mind. Eighty percent of consumers have saved their payment details online, whether on merchants’ websites or apps, indicating a willingness to get what we need and have as...
Fanatics expansion from hats to scores of categories and markets is a lesson in cross-pollination. It is also proof that the connected economy is thriving. Digital engagement in one corner of daily life can and does lead to digital engagement in another, forging an ecosystem...
As inflation continues to rise, consumers are becoming more frugal in their holiday food spending, shifting away from dining out at restaurants towards more cost-effective grocery alternatives. By the Numbers Research from PYMNTS’ recent study “New Reality Check: The Paycheck-To-Paycheck Report — The Holiday Shopping...
Smaller players in both the trucking industry and the truck stop industry are challenged to match the efficiencies of their larger competitors. Trucking companies with fleets of 20 or fewer vehicles can’t negotiate the same discounts as larger firms when it comes to their greatest...
In times past, a creator might’ve been a musician busking for tips on a street corner. Social media thrust those musicians — and artists, poets, podcasters, makeup artists and more — into the mass media limelight where they’re finding audiences but struggling to get paid....
