February 28, 2024
AI, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion

Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and their application to pricing decisions have led to concerns that such innovation could lead to higher prices for consumers. In particular, there...

February 28, 2024
Main Street SMBs Tap Online Channels to Drive Business Growth

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to an eCommerce economy, with historically high sales in 2020 and 2021. As a result, most Main Street small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs)...

February 26, 2024
How OpenAI’s Sora Video Tool Could Change Hollywood

OpenAI’s new tool, Sora, which turns text into high-quality videos, could shake up how movies and shows are made in Hollywood. Sora employs a neural network trained on video examples to...

February 26, 2024
FoxyAI: Real Estate Frustration Leads to Valuation Innovation

In the real estate business, how a property looks has a big impact on how potential buyers make a decision. With so much at stake, real estate professionals have turned...

February 26, 2024
CE 100 Index Loses 0.4% Despite Block and Nvidia’s Post-Earnings...

Significant stock rallies in the wake of earnings from companies including Block (Square’s parent company) and Nvidia were not enough to boost the CE 100 Index’s fortunes. The Index sank...

February 22, 2024
Block Sees 20% Jump in Cash App Card Monthly Active...

Block’s latest earnings show more users opting to use Cash App Cards, an on-ramp to other financial services and products. As noted in the company’s shareholder letter, 2 million actives (3%...

February 22, 2024
Zūm Rails Raises $7 Million to Expand Open Banking Offering

Zūm Rails has raised $7.7 million to expand its open banking/instant payments solution. The Montreal-based company announced the $7.7 million ($10.5 million CAD) Series A funding round Thursday (Feb. 22), saying it would...

February 22, 2024
eCommerce Platforms Make the Leap Into One-Stop-Shop Embedded Trade Finance 

For the merchants doing business online, serving consumers and even buying goods and services from one another, working capital is a lifeline. Working capital provides the ready cash needed to...

February 22, 2024
Databricks Doubles Down on Data to Bring AI to Fortune...

For all its technological complexity, artificial intelligence (AI) rests on one very simple foundation: data. And it’s here that Databricks has put a stake in the ground, claiming 50% of...