Online home rental marketplace Airbnb has been trying to branch into new areas with its Experiences service, an offering that focuses on unique experiences for travelers, but the efforts aren’t paying off — at least so far. That’s according to a report in the Wall Street...
Public transit app Moovit announced Wednesday (Feb. 21) that it had closed a Series D round of funding, raising $50 million. In a statement on the company’s blog, Moovit said the Series D round of funding was led by Intel Capital. It also featured participation...
Discover, the payments company, announced news on Tuesday (Feb. 20) of the debut of a new rewards program for its Cashback Checking account, in which customers can earn cash back after completing debit card purchases. In a press release, Discover said that with the new...
Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. Click. Tap-tap. No, this is not Morse code. It’s, in words, what a bad mobile checkout experience sounds like. Some things in life are ephemeral and hard to quantify – but a bad mobile checkout experience isn’t one of them. It is counted in...
Yesterday marked the beginning of the Chinese New Year, and this year it’s the Year of the Dog. The Chinese zodiac is a bit different from its Western counterpart. The Western zodiac is divided into 12 parts, such that the month in which a person is born...
Chinese eCommerce company Alibaba has big plans for the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, envisioning a more technology-driven event through which all stakeholders make more money. According to a report in Reuters, Alibaba Founder Jack Ma said Saturday (Feb. 10) that his company would launch an...
As brick and mortar businesses of all sizes are struggling to stay open, eBay is aiming to aid their smaller “mom-and-pop” sized sellers with the roll-out of a new initiative called Always Open. Focused on sellers who also operate a physical store front, the program...
Google is trying to make it easier for consumers to use their smartphones to directly book travel from a Google search. The firm announced yesterday that hotel and flight reservations can now be scheduled directly from a search result on mobile — without the user ever...
Meal kits came to the market strong and, for a while there, it seemed like everyone was offering a variation of a direct-to-one’s-door delivery of dinner’s component parts waiting for assemblage. That market has since seen more than a bit of difficulty in sustaining the...