To focus only on the outsized impact the coronavirus inflicted on the travel industry would be a mistake, CellPoint Digital CEO Kristian Gjerding told Karen Webster in a recent ConnectedEconomy™ discussion, noting the importance of acknowledging the many advances we’ve rapidly adopted for the benefit...
We might finally have an answer to the question of how workplace health initiatives will get a tech-fueled overhaul: Peloton Corporate Wellness, which will bring Peloton content and connected fitness products to businesses and organizations in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany and Australia this year....
Two weeks ago, Ferrari named its third CEO in as many years. That wasn’t the big news. This new CEO, Benedetto Vigna, isn’t a car guy but a tech guy, and not just any tech guy. He hails from Europe’s largest semiconductor chipmaker, STMicroelectronics. There...
Over the last year, nearly everyone — 92 percent of consumers — went online to make a purchase, and more of them made online purchases (75 percent) than made them at a physical store (64 percent). Sixty-seven percent of all consumers went online to make...
Winston Churchill famously warned against letting a good crisis go to waste, a piece of advice the 50 CEOs and Connected Economy innovators PYMNTS talked to for its Creating The Connected Economy eBook took to heart. Although the crisis didn’t create the Connected Economy, it...
Ninety-two percent of all consumers have placed online orders for products. More than 85 percent have paid bills online and nearly 75 percent have booked hotel tickets online. These statistics — findings from PYMNTS’ latest research — are all remarkable indicators of the digital adoption...
Sixteen months into the pandemic-fueled digital shift and the role of the physical store is undergoing a relevance makeover of its own, with forward-looking brands and retailers revisiting their brick-and-mortar strategies to make a more cohesive, interconnected shopping experience. Dick’s Sporting Goods, for example, is...
There has been no shortage of economies in the payments and commerce business to discuss over the past decade. We’ve had the internet economy which morphed into the digital economy that results from the billions of online interactions that happen every day between devices, consumers...
After 20 years of disrupting the movie business and creating the video-on-demand market, only to see that market become cluttered with competitors, Netflix is trying something new and jumping into the wild world of eCommerce. Starting this week the streaming service has opened up its...