April 18, 2024
Regulations, Innovations and AI Define This Week in Big Tech
Big Tech companies, including Meta, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, aren’t getting any smaller. Not only do these businesses represent many of the world’s most valuable public companies by market capitalization,...
April 18, 2024
Choke Points, Competitiveness, and Competition
By Thorsten Käseberg1 Over the last 10 years, “choke points” have become a standard notion for trade and security policymakers in our conflict-driven, globalized interdependent world. Choke points may...
April 18, 2024
Google’s Restructuring Shows AI’s Impact on Finance Function
Amid a changing business landscape, digital innovation is reshaping the growth calculus for organizations. And with the news Wednesday (April 17) that Google CFO Ruth Porat is restructuring the tech giant’s finance...
April 18, 2024
GenAI Bridges Small Business Lending Gap
An unavoidable truth in business is that it frequently takes money to make money. And in today’s world, where small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often find themselves struggling to secure...
April 18, 2024
More Payments Friction Coming for Customers
The recent credit card surcharge agreement brings into focus the impact regulations could have on businesses. Spreedly Vice President of Product Joe Meuse explains what the changes could mean for...
April 18, 2024
Why Europe Must End Its 30-Year Digital Winter to Ensure...
In the last 30 years, Europe — defined here as the EU plus the U.K., Norway and Switzerland — has created few leading digital businesses compared to the U.S. and...
April 17, 2024
Cognizant and FICO to Launch Real-Time Payments Fraud Prevention Solution
Cognizant and FICO plan to launch a cloud-based real-time payments fraud prevention solution designed for North American banks and other payment service providers. The joint offering would leverage both firms’ artificial intelligence...
April 17, 2024
Report: Flink Raising Money from Investors, Discussing Merger With Rivals
German grocery delivery startup Flink is reportedly receiving another 100 million euros ($106.7 million) from investors to extend its runway and try to outlast its competitors. The startup is also in...
April 17, 2024
Misfits Market Teams With Gopuff as Shoppers Demand Instant eGrocery
Online shoppers want options for a wider range of grocery occasions, not just their weekly haul, Misfits Market CEO Abhi Ramesh said. The online grocer on Wednesday (April 17) announced...