May 18, 2024
Lightspeed CEO on Helping Smaller Merchants Challenge Industry Goliaths
Profit is the applause a business gets from its customers. So the saying, originally from business author Ken Blanchard, goes. Blanchard’s quip highlights the fact that to successfully navigate marketplace...
May 17, 2024
Consumers Are Leaving Major Cities, Slowing Retail’s Digital Transformation
The impact of the pandemic on consumers’ geographic distribution has continued, with shoppers increasingly residing outside of major urban areas, and this trend away from cities is decelerating retail’s digital...
May 17, 2024
Consumers Want Payment Options That Help Manage Spending
As consumers look for simpler and more intuitive eCommerce experiences, Harvest Hosts sees providing more payment options as key to meeting shoppers’ demand to be able to control how they manage their...
May 17, 2024
Uber Integrates Social Commerce Into Marketplace as Shoppers Seek Peer...
As consumers increasingly look for guidance from trusted friends and content creators to inform their shopping, Uber is integrating a social element into its Eats platform. On Wednesday (May 17)...
May 17, 2024
FinTech IPO Index Edges Up 1.7% as Katapult Earnings Lead...
Call it the week of the platform. Earnings reports from firms that focus on bringing supply and demand together — in lending, for example, or for modernizing payments between merchants...
May 16, 2024
This Week in B2B Innovation: Globalization, Digitization and Better Payments
The B2B landscape is built atop a foundation of innovation designed to meet business needs. And with the news that U.S. corporate bankruptcies have reached their highest level since April 2023,...
May 16, 2024
From AI to Mobile Devices: Technology Reimagines Debit and Credit...
The modern credit card’s history stretches back to just after World War II, when the Charg-It card came out of Brooklyn, tied to a single bank. Account holders could use the cards...
May 16, 2024
UK Relaxes ‘Land-Based Gambling’ Rules as Online Betting Grows
The British government is loosening its rules for brick-and-mortar betting businesses as online gambling grows. The U.K.’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport issued a report Thursday (May 16) that would allow for...
May 15, 2024
Celerant and Sezzle Expand Collaboration, Add In-Store BNPL Options
Celerant Technology now enables the users of its eCommerce platform to offer their customers buy now, pay later (BNPL) options when checking out in-store as well as online. The company has implemented additional integration functionalities with Sezzle to...
