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Retail
Best Buy, Google Join Outsiders in Push to Capture Remote Patient Monitoring Boom
November 14, 2022

Born of pandemic necessity and a graying U.S. population, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is breaking out all over, as its growth potential draws in retailers such as Best Buy and Big Tech stalwarts like Google in a shift that is seeing outside players aggressively moving...

Retail
Klarna Adds Shop and Compare Tool in UK, Sweden and Denmark
November 14, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Klarna has expanded the availability of the search and compare tool within its app to the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark, following the launch of the tool in the United States in October. The new feature, which helps consumers...

Retail
Amazon Turns to Price Cuts and Product Drops for Holiday Sales
November 14, 2022

Amazon will launch its 48 hours of Black Friday deals on Nov. 24 — Thanksgiving Day — while also making product drops before and after that time. The eCommerce giant will offer early deals before the main event begins as well as promotional offers that...

Retail
Demand for Primark’s New BOPIS Feature Crashes Site on First Day
November 14, 2022

Primark’s long-awaited entry into the world of eCommerce got a bit of a bumpy start Monday (Nov. 14) as heavier demand briefly crashed the Irish retailer’s website. First announced in June, the trial version of the company’s new “Click and Collect” feature lets customers order...

B2B Payments
Technology and Processes Must Lead the Way as a Company Scales
November 14, 2022

It takes five to 10 years for emerging biotech companies to bring a product to market, so they have a lot of growth spurts and contractions along the way. When they begin preparing to launch and commercialize a product, though, everything changes. They must get...

B2B Payments
B2B BNPL Helps SMBs Create Runways to Growth
November 14, 2022

The cash conversion cycle is a metric every SMB should be monitoring to ensure healthy cash flow. But before there’s cash flow, SMBs need to get off the ground, with the equipment and inventory they need to actually launch. Plastiq COO Stoyan Kenderov and Obvi...

Payment Methods
Spotify Rolls Out Payment Options With Google
November 13, 2022

Spotify and Google have begun testing user choice billing (UCB), a tool that lets users of the audio streaming platform subscribe and make purchases with their chosen payment option. Announced in March, Spotify said UCB is a first-of-its-kind in-app purchase offering for Android devices. It’s...

Security & Fraud
Australia Eyes Ban on Paying Ransoms to Hackers
November 13, 2022

Australia could consider barring businesses from making ransomware payments to criminals, the country’s cyber security minister said Sunday (Nov. 13). “The idea that we’re going to trust these people to delete data that they have taken off and may have copied a million times is...

B2B Payments
B2B Platform actyv.ai Partners With Mswipe to Improve Payments in India
November 13, 2022

B2B supply chain management platform actyv.ai has teamed with digital payments technology provider Mswipe to improve payment solutions for merchants in the home country of India. “Through this partnership, Mswipe will leverage actyv.ai’s technology stack, allowing the merchants to make informed decisions regarding their distributors...