As consumers seek frictionless payments, businesses are looking to connect with captive in-car customers. Most recently, energy giant Chevron was reported to have created an app for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto whereby those with mobile accounts can pay for their fuel purchases inside their vehicles and earn rewards....
Microsoft is reportedly looking to enter the race to become America’s new super app provider. While the software giant’s intentions — as well as those of other tech companies such as Twitter that have made similar gestures — are understandable given the size of the...
Connected economy names surged as investors cheered signs of resilient consumer spending. To that end, the CE 100 Index outpaced the broader markets, gaining 3.1% on the week. The Fed played some part here, too, as comments from Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that future rate...
Everyone needs groceries, but a massive divide exists in how women and men buy theirs. Men use the internet to place grocery and restaurant orders more often than women, showing a particular taste for same-day delivery apps like Instacart. Many women, on the other hand,...
The idea of creating a super app is hardly new, and won’t be easy for Twitter. “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app” Musk tweeted on Oct. 4, just a few weeks before his deal to purchase the social media platform...
Short week. Slight gains. But gains nonetheless. The CE 100 Index was 0.8% higher through a trading week cut short by the Thanksgiving holiday. The Live pillar was the best-performing pillar, up 4.6% on the week. Porch was the standout here, gathering 25% on the...
The pandemic-fueled rise of online shopping and its hyper adoption across all commerce categories has made “adapt or die” the calling card for emergent card payment solutions everywhere. At the same time, it has become imperative for merchants to evolve their transaction-focused fundamentals from the...
Cars went from conveyances to expressions of individuality in the 20th century, and as the connected car trend builds in this century, they’re becoming a rolling retail store with embedded payments, enabling consumers to buy services from inside a car on a transactional basis. Speaking...
Earnings season draws ever nearer to its close. And for the Connected Economy 100 Index, headed into a shortened Thanksgiving holiday week, a few notable rallies were not enough to save a downtrend that saw the index slip by 2.1%. CE100 Relative Performance The...