Visa’s newest and largest innovation center in London is now officially open for business in its European headquarters in Paddington Basin. The new space is designed to allow Visa to better work seamlessly with financial institutions, merchants and its various other partners to develop new...
Look out, Alexa — it seems Google Home has leveled up its skills such that as of today, it is now possible to order goods for delivery directly from the search giant’s smart speaker device. Google’s Assistant will pull goods from the retailers that already...
London-based Trading.co.uk will be launching an app that will make it easier for traders to keep track of Trump in real time. The new app will launch trading alerts for the scores of fund managers and traders who want to watch the incoming new president’s...
U.K.-based food on demand firm Deliveroo has announced that orders were up over 650 percent last year — despite increasing competition from bigger-name players like Uber and Amazon. In response to the swell of demand, the firm will be taking on over 1,000 full-time employees in its...
Americans are not terribly familiar with Pepper — the robot helper — today, but SoftBank is determined that it will soon conquer U.S. shores with its automated adorableness. And, having had a test run with a few California-based retailers, SoftBank says Pepper is more than a pretty face — it...
It’s just a few days into 2017, and already it looks to be the year of the bots. With CES 2017, the annual global consumer electronics and technology tradeshow, just days away, technology companies are teasing eager technophiles with teaser product announcements. South Korean electronics...
Subscription models have seen a significant rise across commerce categories in the past few years. At the start of this year’s holiday shopping season, the gift that keeps on giving got an additional sales boost. Recurly Inc., which provides enterprise-grade subscription management platforms to thousands...
MetLife announced Monday (Dec. 19) that PNB MetLife, its joint venture partnership in India, launched conVRse, an on-demand virtual reality (VR) customer service platform that it claims is first of a kind. In a press release, MetLife said the conVRse technology, which was developed with...
Price wars are expensive — just ask the team at Uber, which has put $800 million in losses on the board during the third quarter of this year. Those big loss figures come care of a price war with rival ride-hailing service Lyft in the U.S. and...