With millennial travel spend expected to reach $1.4 trillion in 2020, hotels and home-sharing platforms are clamoring to win their business. But it takes more than just mobile-friendly booking experiences to stay competitive. In the latest Commerce Connected Playbook, Sam Shrauger, Airbnb’s global head of...
The payments and commerce ecosystem got busy getting busy this week as the first full week of 2020 kicked off the press releases began raining down from the sky from the year’s early bird innovators. The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly helped...
Airlines, hotels and homesharing platforms need strategies to satisfy the travel needs of four generations of jetsetters, each with different payment and booking preferences. This can be difficult, even for companies used to dealing with the whims of travelers, as they must support multiple payment...
Everything else is getting smarter these days — homes, phones, wearables and even clothing — so why shouldn’t the same standard apply to automotive wheels? Yes, wheels promise to gain more intelligence in the coming years — a reflection not only of the emerging ecosystem of connected...
More than a century of automotive culture has brought many exiting eras. Think about how the affordable Ford Model T opened up car ownership to the masses, or the macho fun of the muscle car era, or even the more mundane joy of the fuel-efficiency...
It was recently reported that one in 15 purchases are now made between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. (at least in the U.K.) According to PYMNTS’ new How Will We Pay 2019 report, this is not surprising. Going shopping has taken on new...
Sheep are not natural-born leaders. If they were, they wouldn’t need border collies or sheepherders to make sure that they didn’t follow wolves blindly into harm’s way and that they ended up where they needed to be at the end of the day. Recognizing this,...
Consumers are set to spend $23 billion buying mobile tickets for sports and gaming events by 2023. Sports brands are thus looking to a host of new technologies, like contactless payments, and even virtual reality technology, to accommodate a new generation of mobile users. Stadiums...
Cars and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have been interconnected since drive-ins were the latest innovation. QSRs thrive on speed and convenience, and that once meant catering to customers in cars via drive-thru windows. Now cars have transformed from vehicle to ordering platform, and QSRs have been...
