PepsiCo turned some heads with its quarterly earnings call announcement that it would take some of its tax reform windfall and reinvest it in improving the firm’s eCommerce efforts. According to PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi, that decision is entirely bottom line-driven – eCommerce was good for Pepsi...
This week, in honor of the Big Sizzle – Amazon’s announcement that it would be offering grocery delivery directly from Whole Foods – we thought we would give our readers a chance to take a special quiz. “THUD” The above is the sound of… ...
What sizzles and fizzles at the same time? Dry ice, perhaps? If so, then Facebook was the dry ice of corporations this week, reporting a sizzling 47 percent jump in quarterly revenue year-over-year – while at the same time fizzling among users, who are spending...
It seems an era has drawn to a close at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) as that under Mick Mulvaney, interim director and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) head, gets underway in earnest. Though there is still some drama about who should rightfully be...
Fizzle of the Week: Cryptocurrency Regulation The saga over bitcoin and its relationship to various regulators has become something of the payments answer to a romantic comedy. How so? Because, as of right now, the same basic question animates both plots: Will they or won’t...
Facebook’s M Fizzles While most of the week was dedicated to the cohort of players at The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) battling it out on the voice assistant playing field, one player decided to pack up their cleats and hit the showers early. After two and...
The end is here. Well, when it comes to 2017 anyway. But before we send the year off into that good night, we must first assign our final rounds of sizzles and fizzles to take us into the New Year. So, who were the winners — and not...
Sizzle of The Week: The Speaker Wars As the clock runs down toward Christmas, there are two less than totally serious “wars” one could choose to focus on. The first takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. The second takes...
Kill the check, we’ve been saying all along. And in our long-standing series on push payments, the myriad of use cases illustrated by Ingo Money and others illuminated the lures of getting paid on demand, especially for hourly workers, as Walmart has introduced. Plus: Santa...