Connected Commerce

Perplexity’s artificial intelligence-powered browser, Comet, is now available in a mobile version. The company has released the first mobile version of the browser, Comet Android, and will release an iOS version ...

Online gambling service FanDuel is joining rival DraftKings in the prediction markets business. The company announced Wednesday (Nov. 13) the pending launch of its FanDuel Predicts app, developed in partnership with ...

About a year after launching Amazon Haul and Amazon Bazaar, Amazon is expanding that shopping experience to another 14 markets. In addition, in the new markets, Amazon is delivering that experience ...

Lloyds Banking Group plans to add an artificial intelligence (AI) powered financial assistant to its mobile app in early 2026. The assistant will initially help customers manage their spending, savings and ...

Connected commerce unifies payments and banking functions, giving businesses greater control, Priority CEO Tom Priore writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Headlines That Will Shape the Close of 2025.” The payments ...

Grubhub customers will soon be able to order goods from Instacart’s network of grocery stores and pharmacies within the Grubhub app or website. This capability will be enabled by a new ...

Vibe coding is the practice of using artificial intelligence (AI) to build applications by describing ideas in plain language. For example, to build an eCommerce landing page, the prompt could be ...

The Google Play store is updating its external offers program in the European Union to allow links to download developers’ own external apps and to let developers select ongoing service tiers. These ...

The ChatGPT mobile app is reportedly earning more than six times as much revenue as it did last year. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot app for iOS and Android devices has made $1.35 billion this year, through ...

China-based Ant Group has reportedly unveiled a new, AI-powered health app for smartphones. As CNBC reported Thursday (June 26), the app was made using artificial intelligence (AI) technology that Ant said ...

Robinhood said Tuesday (June 17) that it has begun rolling out two tools as part of its effort to become the top destination for active traders. The new tools include charting ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered glasses from Google and eyewear retailer Warby Parker will not hit the market until after this year, according to the co-CEO of the glasses retailer. “These are going ...

A U.S. House bill takes aim at Apple and Google’s control over the mobile app ecosystem, seeking to curb practices lawmakers say restrict competition and inflate prices for consumers and ...

U.K. chip designer Arm is making an aggressive move into the personal computer (PC) market long dominated by Intel, as the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal computing reshapes the ...

Google’s Android operating system is set to get one of its biggest updates in years. With this refresh, which includes a design called Material 3 Expressive, phones and watches using Google’s operating system ...

Instacart is reportedly rolling out an app targeting Generation Z consumers, centered around group orders of drinks and party snacks. This app, Fizz, lets multiple users contribute to a single order, ...

Agentic agents, automated payments and consumer-permissioned, data-rich tokens will transform loyalty and rewards — moving beyond the merchant-by-merchant siloed experience that is the hallmark of those programs today. In the report ...

Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, the new version of its voice assistant, to more than 100,000 users so far, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday (May 1) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Alexa+ will ...

In the current environment, no matter what the country, consumers are keenly aware of the pressures of inflation, of how far their spending can stretch, and where they may have ...

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus has launched a mobile app, new features and a premium subscription plan beta test. Manus, which offers a general AI agent that went viral on X a few ...

The digital landscape is dictating how consumers choose to pay, with a clear divergence emerging between tech-embracing early adopters and those content with more basic connectivity, according to a new ...

Mobile app developers are fighting an uphill battle as they work to generate revenue. That’s according to a recent report by RevenueCat, a mobile app subscription tool kit provider, which finds that most apps ...

Food delivery startup Wonder has acquired Tastemade, a media company that creates video content and original programming focused on food, travel, home and design. “With Tastemade’s world-class storytelling, we’re unlocking fresh opportunities for brand ...

Once relegated to simple card-present transactions, digital payments today are deeply embedded into and across a web of connected devices, ultimately driving more personalized experiences and frictionless commerce. The PYMNTS Intelligence ...

After launching a new version of Alexa dubbed Alexa+ last week, Amazon is reportedly preparing to release a “constellation” of devices powered by artificial intelligence (AI). “You can imagine … a ...

Here at PYMNTS we cover the Connected Economy as well as banking and payments. You can call it the smart economy or the digital economy. However, as Karen Webster wrote ...

TikTok has returned to the Apple and Google app stores after being removed amid the threat of a U.S. ban. “The TikTok app is now available for download from the App ...

Amazon is testing a new feature that enables users of the Amazon Shopping app to find select products from other sites and go there to purchase them. Currently in beta, the “Shop ...

A decade after the debut of the original Google Glass — frame-only glasses with a small computer in the place of lenses — a new wave of next-generation smart glasses ...

On the heels of mixed results from its fourth-quarter and full-year performance, the 2025 outlook from Samsung officials includes focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and smart home technologies to drive ...

Apple has reportedly shut down plans to develop augmented reality glasses connected to its computers. The project, cancelled this week, would have created a product that resembled normal glasses but which ...

Google has reportedly been ordered by Indonesia’s antitrust agency to pay fines of 202 billion rupiah (about $12.4 million) for alleged unfair business practices. The agency found that the company abused ...

Global investment firm KKR is reportedly looking to sell its minority stake in Maya, a Philippine FinTech company that offers an all-in-one money app and operates a digital bank that has 5.4 ...

B2B connected commerce firm TradeCentric has a new offering for Shopify B2B users. The company’s ShopifyB2B Connector, announced Wednesday (Jan. 15), is part of TradeCentric’s quarterly product rollout. “We’re excited to launch the TradeCentric Shopify B2B Connector, a ...

As wildfires ravage parts of Los Angeles, residents are turning to digital tools to stay informed, with technology proving vital in tracking fires and managing communication. Watch Duty, a wildfire-tracking app, ...

Connected commerce platform Verifone has introduced a new set of payment devices. Verifone Victa, as the collection is known, was announced Thursday (Jan. 9) along with a SoftPOS solution called Verifone ...

Call it a renaissance for brick-and-mortar commerce. The rebound of in-store browsing and buying may scarcely seemed imaginable just a few years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, where it ...

Here at PYMNTS our main focus is exactly what the name says. But to our CEO Karen Webster’s credit, she saw that the digital shift that was happening in banking ...

Big data once topped every corporate wish list, right next to “digital transformation” and “innovation.” While the buzz has faded, the massive data processing revolution continues to reshape industries worldwide, ...

Apple is reportedly developing a doorbell camera as it continues to bolster its smart-home offerings. The smart doorbell camera would use Face ID to unlock users’ doors, Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman ...

Global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reportedly increased 15.7% year-over-year in 2024, even as the number of app downloads decreased by 2.3%. The year’s spending across Apple’s App Store and Google Play ...

The Republican and Democratic leaders of a House select committee said Friday (Dec. 13) that TikTok should sell its app and that Apple and Google should be ready to remove TikTok from their ...

The biggest tech show in the world, CES 2025 next month in Las Vegas, is landing squarely on the connected economy next month with innovations expected in connected homes, digital ...

Apple’s reported upcoming artificial intelligence (AI)-powered display, launching as early as March, could shake up the connected device market by giving the tech giant its first central command center to drive ...

Apple will reportedly announce a device in a new product category — one that brings together artificial intelligence, apps and smart home functions — as early as March. The device, which is ...