To play ball in today’s B2B landscape, firms need to home in on their advantage and build an ecosystem, or moat, around what is unique about them specifically. Sound familiar? For years, a similar approach has been the long pole in the tent of various...
At the end of the day, consumers love conveniences that can make their lives incrementally easier, whether it’s the control and speed of self-checkout or the cut-down cooking times of ready-made meals. The high rate of buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS) use in the United...
Link Money and Alternative Airlines have joined forces to offer U.S. travelers a new and convenient way to pay for flights. This partnership aims to provide a seamless open banking payment experience, allowing customers to make payments directly from their bank accounts, the companies said in a Tuesday...
A massive data breach has shuttered Discord.io, an online messaging platform used by Discord members. “On the night of the 14th of August, Discord.io suffered a major data breach, resulting in content from our database being leaked to unknown actors,” said a message on the website Tuesday...
Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) help economies across the world go ’round. But despite their significant contributions to global commerce, local SMEs have long been underserved by traditional financial institutions when it comes to their own cross-border payments and international expansion goals. “Most of the companies in...
At first glance, it might seem incongruous to mention the PYMNTS FinTech IPO Index and banks and M&A in the same sentence. The index itself is up 32% year to date. And so the logic might follow that if stock is currency on Wall Street —...
Petco has teamed with dog nutrition brand Ollie to bring human-grade dog food to Petco customers. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Aug. 15), offers pet parents access to a service previously available only via online, direct-to-consumer subscription, making Petco the first nationwide pet retailer selling Ollie’s...
Google is ready to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model, Gemini, this fall. The tech giant aims for Gemini to become the force that powers chatbot Bard, which competes with the likes of ChatGPT from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, as well as enterprise applications such as Google Docs and Slides, Seeking Alpha reported Tuesday (Aug. 15), citing...
X, formerly known as Twitter, is ending its promoted accounts offering. Promoted accounts, which are also known as “Follower Objective” ads, are one of the platform’s oldest ad formats and generate $100 million of its annual revenue, Axios reported Tuesday (Aug. 15), citing an unnamed...
