The universe of smart devices and connected things is undeniably growing by the day – name a common household item and there...
The promises of 5G include faster connectivity and more opportunity for Intelligence of Things (IoT) providers, but security threats from unregistered IoT...
The 5G network is rapidly being deployed in markets around the world, and the advance of the network could mean profound changes...
Consumers have a bad case of app fatigue. There was a time when consumers were eager to download and experiment with apps...
After three years of intensive research into the connected shopping habits of more than 5,000 U.S. consumers, PYMNTS published its third annual...
Internet of Things (IoT) platform Particle announced that it has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures and...
The share of consumers who own voice-activated devices has doubled as of 2017, with more of them using those devices to make purchases, listen...
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
Firedome, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round with investment from...
The physical and digital worlds are converging, as consumers own and use connected devices more than ever before. These technologies provide consumers...
Increasingly, the physical and digital worlds are converging. Consumers own and use connected devices more than ever before, while brick-and-mortar retail is...
According to data released by Pew this week, America’s churches have an attendance problem. In a telephone survey conducted between this year and...
There will be 41.6 billion Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices around the world by 2025. Consumers and businesses have increasingly employed the...
A massive sea change has happened in the world of retail – albeit so subtly and swiftly that most consumers probably never...
Connected devices are contextualizing commerce for consumers as they go about their daily lives, and bridge millennials provide profound insights into the future of connected commerce. In subscriptions, it seems MoviePass has...
More than one-quarter of all U.S. consumers who own voice-activated devices have used them to order food. These consumers commonly rely on...
Voice is connected commerce’s killer app. That is just one of five critical findings highlighted in How We Will Pay 2019, a PYMNTS, Visa collaboration...
An unsatisfying restaurant ordering experience can turn long-term customers into last-time patrons. So how can restaurants know which tech and services will...
Peloton combines its own hardware, software and subscription model in a bid to win over fitness-minded consumers – an effort that could shed light...
With more than 8.6 billion connected devices in use worldwide, the appetite for IoT is only growing, with the technology being put...
It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one...
States like California and New York are now regulating connected device security to give consumers much-needed protections. But state-by-state piecemeal legislation can...
Smart technology is unlocking supply chain efficiencies, providing emergency alerts and much more. But despite intelligence of things (IoT) solutions being put...
China has surpassed the United States to lead the smart speaker market. According to new data from Canalys, China’s smart speaker shipments...
Mobile commerce might just be the key to saving brick-and-mortar stores. Consumers use their smartphones to shop for everything, everywhere – including...
From fitness bands to heart rate monitors, consumers have a seemingly endless number of healthcare trackers from which to choose, but their...
The Intelligence of Things (IoT) has become a fixture of everyday life, with more than 14 billion connected devices expected to be...
Approximately 20 billion IoT-enabled devices will be connected by 2020. These items are fast, handle an increasingly large amount of personal and...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has firmly taken hold, with new applications — focusing on the support of consumer, business and industrial...
It might be a bit of a cliché to note that we live in an increasingly connected world – though given that...
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices active around the world. As the IoT market...
From connected cars to smart ovens, the Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem is projected to grow into every area of consumer life...
Comcast is releasing an artificial intelligence-powered service that will monitor, block and tell customers about online threats to devices connected to home...
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules...
Despite being warned years ago about a bug in its Chromecast media streaming stick, Google has yet to fix it and hackers...
These days, consumers are almost always walking around with at least one, if not more, connected device. Whether they’re smartphones, tablets, wearables...
In about two weeks, 2018 will be one for the history books. And from a payments and commerce perspective, it really has...
To help customers create a smart home or office, Office Depot is now an installation partner for Nest and Google smart home...
Consumers are tethered to their smartphones, and their affinity for connected devices extends into commerce – they are using these tools when...
It was usually a weekend joy or an after-work nightmare for the person assigned the task: fixing the broken washing machine or...
The world may not feel like a radically different place than it was at the turn of the last century – but...
From speakers to cars to video game consoles, it feels like every device is becoming a connected device. The opportunities that come...
The verdict is in. Black Friday was a boon for online retail. Nostalgia still drove consumers to physical stores to snag and...
Black Friday looms. The holidays loom. Time to take stock, then, of How We Will Pay – in the retail setting, of course,...
There is no shortage of things in the world claiming to be “smart,” though what that actually means varies in context. It...
It was a good week for wearables and their future, as the devices continued to show indications of strong promise on the...
In what feels like the blink of any eye, the Internet of Things has gone beyond smart speakers and a handful of wearables on...
Using overhead cameras, scanners and weight sensors to track customers in-store may be the future of physical retail, but what starts as...
By 2020, 30 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT) devices are expected to be connected worldwide — a figure anticipated to skyrocket to 100...
A new study has found that hackers can use appliances that are connected via the Internet of Things (IoT) to set off...