Consumers are getting more connected by the day. According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS/Visa How We will Pay survey, 32.6 percent of Americans own smart speakers, 52.7 percent own smart televisions and 30 percent own a connected car. And they’re using those connections...
Bill Gates’ interests are quietly moving from server farms to soil farms. No one knows why except Bill and Melinda Gates and their inner circle, but the speculation is turning again to their vision of building new ‘connected’ smart cities and farms. This is where...
In the Land Down Under, the ripple effects of the clash between regulators and a giant in online search (that would be Google, of course) may be such that consumers are left searching for search. And it signals that Big Tech may deem it prudent...
Google’s parent company Alphabet is pulling the plug on its subsidiary Loon, a futuristic venture that for the past decade was exploring the use of giant helium balloons to deliver internet access to remote locales. “Loon has been chasing the hardest problem of all in...
Google is threatening to pull out of Australia if the proposed news media bargaining code — which is designed to benefit news organizations — becomes law without significant changes made first. On Friday (Jan. 22), two Google Australia executives — Managing Director Mel Silva and...
When it comes to 5G, there’s the anticipation of a tipping point – but the tipping point is somewhere off on the horizon. It would be understandable to think that the latest iteration of wireless technology — promising blazing fast data speeds — is ready...
In the age of eCommerce, supply chains must become more agile — and to become agile, they must embrace digitization. Niall Murphy, CEO of EVRYTHNG, told PYMNTS in an interview that assigning individual items their own unique identities and data, and tracking it all across...
Before 2014, talking to a virtual assistant and instructing it to turn on the lights, start the dishwasher or order up the groceries was the sort of thing the average consumer would more expect to see in a science fiction or superhero movie than in...
Among the more unexpected effects of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last half-year or so is the sudden home improvement boom it set off among consumers. Unexpected, but not entirely surprising, as consumers suddenly spending nearly all of their time in their homes these days...