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Gambling is no longer simply a single, static industry. Sports betting apps sit beside retail brokerage platforms on smartphone home screens. Prediction markets allow users to wager on elections, economic data and geopolitical events. Crypto exchanges celebrate perpetual trading while retail investing apps reward streaks,...
For merchants looking overseas for growth, the fastest route may run straight through the checkout page. That is the central finding of “Payments Optimization: Powering Global eCommerce Growth,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report done with Worldpay. The report argues that cross-border demand is there, but too many merchants still...
Reviews website Trustpilot has reportedly launched a partnership with eCommerce platform Shopify. The arrangement will let merchants showcase and manage Trustpilot reviews on their online stores, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (June 27), citing an interview with Adrian Blair, Trustpilot’s chief executive. Blair said that third-party...
Several brands gaining attention around the World Cup are not sponsors of the event, CNBC reported Friday (May 26). Levi Strauss & Co., Taco Bell and McDonald’s are among the brands that have gained engagement on social media through creative marketing strategies, according to the...
X has taken another step in the rollout of X Money by expanding the tool to members of the top tier of the social media platform’s premium subscription service. “Today, we’re releasing [X Money] to a subset of US Premium+ users to collect feedback and...
In an era of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping, merchants are discovering that one of their most powerful customer relation tools may be hiding in plain sight: the humble checkout page. That conclusion emerges from “The Next-Gen Commerce Playbook: Turning Checkout Into a Compounding Customer Loop,”...
Prime Day is built for scale. Smallbatch Pets is built around the opposite idea: raw and freeze-dried pet food made in small batches from humanely raised meats and organic produce. From June 23 through June 26, the brand born in a San Francisco flat will use...
TikTok Shop has banned artificial intelligence-generated voices, prerecorded audio and static-image content from promotional livestreams and shoppable videos, drawing a hard line between AI as a production tool and AI as a customer-facing salesperson. The rules, published in TikTok Shop’s US Academy, apply to all...
Shopify has resolved a two-hour outage that started Wednesday morning (June 3). The company announced the problem at 9:27 a.m. EDT, saying on its Status page that some merchants and customers were encountering issues with one or more functions, including admins, checkouts, storefronts, Retail POS...