April 26, 2024
Advanced Tech Adds Miles of Progress to Smart City Vision
The global smart cities landscape is evolving, driven by the fusion of urbanization and technological advancements. This transformative shift is underscored by the recent release of the “2024 Smart City...
April 04, 2024
AI and Connected Vehicles Create New Road Maps for Smart...
Death, taxes — and traffic — are some of life’s unavoidable certainties. But in the quest for smarter, more efficient urban environments, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to pave the...
March 28, 2024
Retailers Add Tech to Meet Consumer Demand for Biometric Authentication
With consumers looking for more frictionless authentication, retailers ranging from Whole Foods to Steak ’n Shake are adding biometric payments. Amazon has been looking to remove friction from its Amazon One pay-by-palm capability, most recently launching an app to...
March 26, 2024
How Digital Solutions Are Giving Freight Industry a Modern Lift
Historically, freight forwarding has been a complex and labor-intensive process, characterized by manual paperwork, fragmented communication channels and numerous intermediaries. However, the emergence of digital platforms and innovative technologies is...
March 14, 2024
InDrive Secures Additional $150 Million to Grow Mobility Platform
Global mobility and urban services platform inDrive’s financing arrangement with General Catalyst has been expanded to $300 million. The company has secured an additional $150 million from General Catalyst, which joins the initial $150...
February 28, 2024
InDrive Launches Lending Solution for Drivers on Its Rideshare Platform
InDrive, a global mobility and urban services platform, introduced a new financial services product called inDrive Money. The offering provides cash loans to drivers operating on its platform in Mexico,...
February 20, 2024
Working Capital Index Shows Strategic Deficit for European Middle Market...
Access to working capital enables all types of companies to avoid operational disturbances in the short term and to power growth for the long term. In Europe, 79% of Growth...
February 08, 2024
Cities Tap Contactless Payments to Transform Urban Mobility
In the past, urban travel often meant wrestling with cumbersome paper tickets or scrambling for exact change at transit stations. However, with the roll out of smart city payment systems,...
February 05, 2024
Can Fleet Management Serve as Beacon for Platformization of Connected...
Bit by bit the smokestack economy — and the subsets thereof — come online, go digital, find new ways to connect stakeholders. And as counterintuitive as it might seem, fleet...