PYMNTS 11: Late-Fall Edition

As the last leaves fall, it’s starting to get mighty gray up in here. Daylight savings has kicked into high gear. You got an extra hour of sleep (maybe), but night comes around 4 p.m. these days.

Why huddle by the fireplace when you can huddle by the soothing blue backlight of your computer screen with this week’s PYMNTS 11? Enjoy a pumpkin-spiced whatever while you’re at it; we won’t judge.

 

$6 billion | Projected annual sales of GE software by the end of 2016

117 | Number of local San Francisco eateries for which Amazon Prime offers delivery service to local Prime customers

2.4 percent | The chargeoff rate in Oct. 2016 for Discover Financial Services

175,000 | Number of orders placed per second on Alibaba during this year’s Singles’ Day sale

4.3 percent | Retail sales gain in the U.S. during October

34 | Number of fraud attacks for every 1,000 transactions in the first quarter of 2016

158 million | Japanese mobile subscribers who can now use carrier billing to pay for Spotify Premium

20 | Number of new metro areas Amazon Home Services expanded to this month

$162 billion | Projected size of the combined AR/VR market by 2020

51 percent | How often U.S. consumers opt for takeout or delivery when ordering food

$75,000 | Value of bond Ricardo Hill (the Florida man charged in connection with an illegal bitcoin exchange) was released on