A close look at the social media habits of consumers reveals, to steal an old movie title, where the boys are. They’re online, and specifically, they’re on dating apps. PYMNTS’ research, based on a survey of over 2,600 respondents, found that regardless of gender or...
Technology makes everything easier. Except when it doesn’t work — and then makes everything harder. And if there is any indication that a “digital first” but not “digital only” mindset might be an optimal one, even in the post-pandemic world, one need no farther than...
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, saw its operating losses triple in 2021, ballooning to more than $7 billion as the company spent to fuel its growth. That’s according to a Thursday (Oct. 6) report by The Wall Street Journal, citing an internal financial...
Once again, DoorDash remains far and away the top-performing aggregator, with competitors not even coming close in this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Aggregators. The ranking leverages a proprietary combination of publicly available information as well as app usage data to which PYMNTS has...
Whether it’s flu season or your everyday medications, prescription apps are saving people money, and that makes PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Prescription Apps a must read. That’s our opinion of course, but this latest tally finds an interesting mix of apps holding tight to their...
In an effort to curtail the use of illicit lending apps in the country, regulators in India are calling on Google to help police the situation and rein in those that engage in underhanded practices not sanctioned by the central bank. The Reserve Bank of...
What does a person have to do to get a deal around here? We have that answer contained in the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Coupons Apps, which is kind of a big deal unto itself. There’s been flipping and flopping since we last checked in...
We’re headed into fall — and cold weather looms, as does prime TV binging season. This time around, the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Streaming Apps features a bit of a shakeup, with a few ties in the mix and leading players jockeying for first. The...
Sometimes a corporate strategy can be summed up in just a few words. In Inter & Co.’s case, its strategy for crafting the super app — branching beyond its roots in credit access and expanding beyond Brazil’s borders — boils down to staying away from...
