Despite living in a world awash in data, it’s surprising how much our lives are defined by uncertainty. What’s coming next is hard to measure in a world where it seems entire news cycles can be made — and broken — with but a single...
Warren Buffett famously said the “chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken” — something anyone who’s ever invested any time into changing consumer habits can quickly confirm. The bigger the change, the bigger the challenge....
Efficiency is key in payments and commerce these days, which can make all the times where wastefulness wins out a bit surprising. It might be waste in the form of physical goods lost or data disappearing into the ether. It might be about wasting customer...
The fact that the world is changing rapidly shouldn’t come as much of a shock — though the speed and centers of change in payments and commerce might surprise even the most inveterate segment watchers. The world is becoming a smaller place, particularly for the...
The U.S. Census Bureau claims 92 percent of retail still happens in a store, but those who’ve really been paying attention over the last few years know that’s an old headline. The more interesting news is 100 percent of consumers are looking to transact how...
Innovations are popping up everywhere. They’re helping on-the-go domestic travelers get the food they crave, city dwellers more efficiently park their cars, companies address top technology concerns and business-to-business (B2B) startups secure funding to help them target enterprise data — and the changes are far...
Despite the best work of fortune tellers and algorithm writers, the future is a hard thing to predict – because unusual and unexpected things insist upon happening. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Making life simpler for consumers is usually the task of companies that have to build the technology that enables that simplicity. Challenges aside, the technological streamlining beat goes on, pretty much wherever you look. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
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