A Waymo ride and a public transit fare are separate transactions. A new rewards program shows what can happen when the payment credential connects them. Waymo launched a transit rewards program Sept. 22 that lets San Francisco Bay Area riders link a Visa card to...
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare has launched a setting that enables website owners to remain visible in search results while blocking crawlers from using their content for artificial intelligence training, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. Cloudflare’s new Disallow AI Training setting...
Payments platforms have plenty of transaction data. Smart checkout is raising the value of the merchant information they do not have. The technology can draw on payment history, customer identity, product information, rewards, previous purchases and transaction performance to determine what a shopper sees at...
Paysafe has launched a gaming arena designed to connect gamers, developers and publishers. The payments platform announced the new arena Monday (Aug. 24), calling it “a destination focused on game discovery, rewards and community” where players can find new titles, access “exclusive” content and promotions,...
Live entertainment is being rebuilt around the same principles that transformed eCommerce, theme parks and travel. “The fan’s journey now extends so far beyond that ticket to get into the arena,” Brannon Desseyn, product manager at SeatGeek, told PYMNTS. And this new fan journey, at...
Samsung‘s arrival in the trillion-dollar club this week expands a roster that increasingly defines who controls the architecture of the modern global economy. That 15-company list spans familiar technology titans alongside firms that, at first glance, appear to have little in common. Put executives from...
The war in Iran has reportedly been good business for the prediction markets sector. As Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (March 4), companies such as Polymarket and Kalshi, which offer financial contracts on the outcome of everything from sporting events to elections, are now letting users...
Nvidia and a coalition of global telecom operators and infrastructure vendors announced a strategic commitment at the Mobile World Congress to build the next generation of wireless networks, 6G, on platforms that are open, secure and AI-native, signaling a shift in how future connectivity will...
Sports-related bets on Kalshi are now generating estimated annualized revenues of roughly $1.3 billion. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Feb. 14), that figure is nearly a quarter of the total sportsbook revenue for betting giant DraftKings and spotlights the increasing threat that prediction...