Restaurants that are driving food innovation with carefully chosen ingredients focused on health are seeking funding to help power their growth. True Food Kitchen, in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new...
After announcing previews for Smart Home features to help make exciting experiences for Alexa customers, Amazon noted that several of them are now generally available. Those include updates to the cooking API; semantic extensions; and support for garage door controllers as well as shades, according to a post on...
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, reportedly suggested that his firm had taken in 250,000 pre-orders for its “Blade Runner”-inspired electric Cybertruck pickup truck. Musk tweeted “250k,” which seemed to suggest, based on his Twitter report in that past, that the figure was the number...
Small businesses are a growing target for bank-FinTech collaborations and data integration initiatives as financial service providers explore new use cases for open banking. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Banks’ digitization journeys have been a rocky road, to say the least. The spark of FinTech innovation in recent history has set off a catalyst of disruption for traditional financial institutions (FIs), with the status quo of legacy financial services no longer sufficient for consumers,...
China’s Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial is drumming up $1 billion to fund startups in Southeast Asia and India, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Nov. 26) citing a source. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Profits are being pushed over progress as Silicon Valley investors start reeling in the billions that startups have come to expect, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Nov. 26). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
For at least the last 15 years, it seems there has always been someone ready to write a eulogy for independent sales organizations (ISOs). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Faster and real-time payments still have a long journey ahead toward ubiquity, particularly in the realm of corporate cross-border payments. Interoperability between various markets’ networks, as well as standardization of payments messages to benchmarks like ISO 20022, are key to adoption, said HSBC’s Global Head...
