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April 08, 2024
MIT Engineers Aim to Advance Household Robots With AI Integration

Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence, household robots are getting smarter and could soon evolve far beyond their current roles as mostly self-guided vacuum cleaners. MIT engineers are working on...


April 08, 2024
Biden Offers New Debt Relief to Student Loan Borrowers

The White House has unveiled its latest effort to offer relief to student loan borrowers. The plan, President Joe Biden announced Monday (April 8), targets borrowers who owe more now than when...


April 07, 2024
The Challenges of Shifting Landscapes

By Brad Staples & Rachel Brandenburger1   Introduction Businesses are facing unprecedented challenges. Changes in the geopolitical landscape call into question (and even reverse) many of the key assumptions that...


April 03, 2024
Messaging Platform Telegram Pivots to Crypto Payments for Ads 

Throughout nearly their entire history, cryptocurrencies have represented the archetypal innovation in search of a problem. And while they’ve succeeded as an unregulated store of value, as well as a tool for scammers,...


April 03, 2024
DraftKings and MGM Find New Gaming Frontier in Brazil

Some of the sports betting world’s biggest players have reportedly turned their sights on Brazil. Companies such as DraftKings and MGM Resorts International are exploring entry into Latin America’s largest economy and its new, and regulated,...


April 01, 2024
Pocket FM Looks to Create — and Own — a...

We know that the connected consumer has certainly embraced binge watching since the pandemic. If Pocket FM gets its way, there will be a new streaming category to obsess about:...


March 31, 2024
Detained Binance Execs Sue Nigeria for Rights Violations

Two Binance executives have sued the Nigerian government following their detention by the African nation. The cryptocurrency execs filed suit last week against Nigeria’s national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and country’s Economic Financial...


March 31, 2024
Argentina’s Leniency Program: A Proposed Regulation

By Alexis German Pirchio1   In May 2018, Argentina enacted Act No. 27.442 on the Defence of Competition (“LDC,” for its acronym in Spanish), the first antitrust law in the...


March 29, 2024
Rising Fraud Casts Shadow Over Voice Commerce Potential

The proliferation of voice-activated technology, from virtual shopping assistants to speech recognition in smartphones and smart homes, is reshaping how consumers interact with devices. Advancements in this field are continually expanding the possibilities...


Global Commerce: Harnessing The $382B Latin American eCommerce Market
Mercado Libre Says LatAm’s $382B eCommerce Market Is Complex but Rewarding Even though the region's $382 billion eCommerce market is projected to nearly double by 2025, Mercado Libre’s Karen Bruck tells PYMNTS for the new edition of the “Global Commerce Tracker®,” a collaboration with Worldline, that foreign merchants looking to gain a foothold there need to first understand the market’s particulars.
2023-2024 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index: LAC Edition
Middle Market CFOs in Latin America See Working Capital as Strategic Tool The 70% of CFOs in Latin America who used working capital report being better able to meet customer demand and capitalize on new opportunities. The 2023–2024 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index: LAC Edition,” a collaboration with Visa, details what sets these CFOs apart from their peers in other regions.