With news circulating that the dreaded “COVID 19 pounds” many Americans have packed on during the pandemic may be closer to 29 pounds, people increasingly have movement on their minds. Considering pandemic barriers to fitness, real or imagined, a muscular fourth quarter 2021 earnings report...
Connected car data can be used to make many tasks easier. For example, keeping a logbook of vehicle mileage for business purposes, evaluating the extent and cost of damage after a collision, and allowing drivers to control the information that is monitored by their insurance...
Businesses with a fleet of any size can make the most of those vehicles and the drivers’ time by managing them based on data. Automakers and aftermarket suppliers have been rolling out and refining hardware and software that enable fleets to monitor in real time,...
People try to go into stores intending to buy, which may or may not be what brings them to an eCommerce site or online marketplace, where they might just browse. This fundamental fact of retail is being reshaped in the pandemic era as eCommerce becomes...
The platform economy, combined with the creator economy, is primed to help artists, musicians and podcasters, among others, turn their talents into money. As Lily Q. Jolly, product lead for Stripe Express, told PYMNTS in an interview, making it easy to pay creators — in...
Smaller consumer-packaged goods (CPG) suppliers often wrestle with reconciling receivables from payments received from their larger counterparts because they lack the resources — and budgets — to bring proper systems to bear on making sure what they are paid is exactly what they invoiced. When...
It’s hard to resist Tolkienesque “one ring to rule them all” zingers when talking about competition to dominate the connected economy. As Big Tech and adjacent players slug it out over connected tech, government is trying to level the field, ensuring room for small innovators...
Salesforce on Thursday (Jan. 13) debuted several new innovations and partnerships it will use to help companies support social commerce capabilities and connect data across platforms. Salesforce will also import social commerce tools for China through Alibaba Cloud, giving merchants a better handle on order...
Americans want a super app. According to PYMNTS research, 67% of consumers — that’s 173 million people — want an app that manages their digital activities, while another 11% want an app that manages their entire digital lives. These consumers fall into three categories: 1)...