The Internet economy demands that companies stay nimble, and branch out beyond their initial markets and even core competencies. They need to pivot as needed, to meet new demands and challenges. To do so, they need to consolidate workflows and operations, especially the small and...
Malls. So 1980s. Malls, so 2022 – and on the cutting edge of omnichannel commerce. To that end, it may be Amazon, that bastion of online commerce, that gives the bridge to malls, that bastion of brick and mortar retail, to make the move toward cross-channel...
Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, doesn’t want to fix Twitter, he wants to fix social media. And that means adding payments. More broadly, Musk said he would like to turn Twitter into a super app that would merge its public forum...
Aiming to speed the creation of immersive 5G-powered augmented reality (AR) experiences for smart glasses, T-Mobile has launched a T-Mobile Accelerator program that provides resources to selected developers. “Smart glasses will completely change how we connect and experience the world around us,” John Saw, executive...
Google and Apple have both said they will be cutting down on outdated apps in their app stores, Ars Technica reports, and the plan now reveals that they plan to cut around a third of their total app selection. The numbers would see Google Play...
Customer acquisition costs aren’t less costly, and consumers have a universe of choices at their fingertips now. It’s time for businesses and consumers to get to know each other better because the ripcord methods of the pandemic must be refined, or defections will scale. It’s...
Real-time payments firm ACI Worldwide is partnering with NORBr, a payment services distributor platform for digital merchants, to facilitate merchants’ connection to ACI’s solutions. Nigel Reavley, country manager of France, ACI Worldwide said in a press release on Thursday (May 12) that the company’s merchant...
It’s difficult to sell auto parts online if shoppers can’t install them themselves. Seeing an opportunity to serve these customers, eCommerce platform PARTS iD began partnering with tire shops that would install the tires it sells. Previously, the company had primarily sold automotive parts and...
Supply chain snarls and a shortage of qualified drivers have driven the freight industry toward a digital overhaul. But not all areas of the logistics and freight industry have embraced modernization. Bharath Krishnamoorthy, CEO and co-founder at Axle, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that freight financing...