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Retail
Leap Platform Raises $15M To Boost Store Count To 250 By End of 2022
August 30, 2021

Retail platform Leap on Monday (Aug. 30) said it will grow its store count by 300 percent this year, with plans to have 50 stores open by the end of 2021 and 250 by the end of 2022. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Retail
Behold The ‘Micro-Influencer’ — The Trusted, Unsung Work Horse Of Social Commerce
August 30, 2021

When Taylor Swift officially joined TikTok last week, practically every corner of the internet took notice. Her first video, recapping recent album releases, reached over 14 million views and launched a viral trend of people recreating it. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Retail
Ikea To Pilot Furniture Buyback, Secondhand Sales
August 30, 2021

Home furnishing retailer Ikea is joining the growing list of companies testing U.S. demand for a secondhand market, with the company saying Monday (Aug. 30) that it will be piloting a furniture buyback and resale program with the goal of making it a permanent fixture...

Retail
Zebra Technologies Acquires antuit.ai
August 30, 2021

Front-line business firm Zebra Technologies on Monday (Aug. 30) said it will acquire antuit.ai, a retail and consumer packaged goods-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

B2B Payments
Deep Dive: How 2020 Increased The Necessity Of Fully Online Bill Payment Solutions For Businesses,...
August 30, 2021

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Investments
Wearables Startup Whoop Notches $200M At $3.6B Valuation
August 30, 2021

Fitness wearables firm Whoop notched $200 million in a Series F funding round led by SoftBank’s second Vision Fund, bringing the Boston startup’s valuation to $3.6 billion. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Regulation
Australia Mulls Regulations For Apple Pay, Google Pay, Other Big Tech Players
August 30, 2021

The Australian government is looking into the best way to overhaul its current infrastructure for financial regulation to enable stronger oversight of digital wallets and payments from Big Tech companies like Apple, Google, WeChat and others. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

B2B Payments
B2B Marketplace wherEX Sees Buy Now Pay Later As Boost To Building Buyer Trust, Sales
August 30, 2021

When a company is shopping for materials, there’s no catalog of B2B merchants like there is for consumer goods — a company’s needs are too specific and often too large for consumer-type platforms to be successful. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Security & Fraud
To Stay Ahead of Surging ‘BIN-Fishers’, FIs and Merchants Need to Upgrade Authentication
August 30, 2021

The fraudsters go, always, to the path of least resistance. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...