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3.9KVISAVisa: Road-Tripping Into Connected Commerce’s Future
It wasn’t long ago that the measure of a car or truck revolved around such things as the punch and pull of...
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3.8KIntelligence of ThingsWhy An API May Be The Ticket To Solving Public Transit’s Cash Flow Jam
There will be approximately 25 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-enabled devices in use by the end of 2021, and many of these...
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3.4KMerchant InnovationP&G Enters The Connected Device Market
Product giant Procter & Gamble made its first appearance in 2019 at the annual Consumer Electronic Services showcase in Las Vegas. It...
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4.9KInnovationFour Payments Ideas That Had A Breakout 2019
Ignition of a new technology or idea in payments and commerce is always something of a tricky balancing act because consumers need...
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6.4KPayment Methods12 Ways Consumers Will Pay (And Be Paid) In 2020
Past is prologue. For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019),...
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2.8KPayments InnovationWhy Voice And Smart Homes Will Be Even Bigger In The 2020s
We are not exactly Nostradamus here at PYMNTS, but we do have a good view into the future as it will play...
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1.9KToday In DataMonetizing An Increasingly Connected World
The universe of smart devices and connected things is undeniably growing by the day – name a common household item and there...
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7.7KIntelligence of ThingsBlackBerry On 5G And The IoT Security Problems That Must Be Fixed
The promises of 5G include faster connectivity and more opportunity for Intelligence of Things (IoT) providers, but security threats from unregistered IoT...
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5.9KIntelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: With 5G Anticipation Building, Security Threats Loom
The 5G network is rapidly being deployed in markets around the world, and the advance of the network could mean profound changes...
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2.2KNewsREPORT: How Consumers Want To Connect To Pay
Consumers have a bad case of app fatigue. There was a time when consumers were eager to download and experiment with apps...
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4.2KPayment MethodsA Day In The Life Of The Bridge Millennial
After three years of intensive research into the connected shopping habits of more than 5,000 U.S. consumers, PYMNTS published its third annual...
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3.2KInvestmentsParticle Lands $40M To Become ‘All-In-One’ Solution For IoT Devices
Internet of Things (IoT) platform Particle announced that it has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures and...
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2.2KToday In DataHow Connected Devices Are Changing Retail And Commerce
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...
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6.6KVoice ActivationWhy Voice Is Connected Commerce’s Killer App
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
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2.8KInvestmentsCybersecurity Firm Firedome Lands $10M To Expand Into Business Protection
Firedome, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round with investment from...
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2.2KToday In DataConnected Devices And Everyday Purchasing Experiences
The physical and digital worlds are converging, as consumers own and use connected devices more than ever before. These technologies provide consumers...
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2.7KRetailHow Consumers Are Upping Their Connected Device Usage
Increasingly, the physical and digital worlds are converging. Consumers own and use connected devices more than ever before, while brick-and-mortar retail is...
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2.4KInternet of ThingsSmart Rosary Beads And Other Ways Churches Are Building Their Digital Flock
According to data released by Pew this week, America’s churches have an attendance problem. In a telephone survey conducted between this year and...
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4.9KIntelligence of ThingsBringing Autonomous Smart Shuttles To the Masses
There will be 41.6 billion Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices around the world by 2025. Consumers and businesses have increasingly employed the...
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5.2KRetailHow Voice Will Capture The Connected Commerce Frontier
A massive sea change has happened in the world of retail – albeit so subtly and swiftly that most consumers probably never...
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2.3KToday In DataConnected Consumers And The Future Of Commerce
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...
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3.0KRestaurant innovationDeep Dive: QSRs Find Their Voice
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...
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6.0KPayments InnovationNew Report: How Consumers Use Connected Devices To Shop And Pay
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...
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4.5KRestaurant innovationHow Domino’s Works To Deliver On Customer Loyalty
An unsatisfying restaurant ordering experience can turn long-term customers into last-time patrons. So how can restaurants know which tech and services will...
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3.1KToday In DataThe Future Of Fitness With Connected Devices And IoT
Peloton combines its own hardware, software and subscription model in a bid to win over fitness-minded consumers – an effort that could shed light...
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6.5KIntelligence of ThingsiRobot On Cleaning Up Smart Home Security
With more than 8.6 billion connected devices in use worldwide, the appetite for IoT is only growing, with the technology being put...
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5.1KInnovationCan Elon Musk Turn The Human Brain Into A Connected Device?
It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one...
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4.3KIntelligence of ThingsHow The Z-Wave Alliance Is Balancing IoT Interoperability And Security
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...
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4.3KIntelligence of ThingsThe Case For Federal IoT Regulations
Smart technology is unlocking supply chain efficiencies, providing emergency alerts and much more. But despite intelligence of things (IoT) solutions being put...
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2.9KInternationalChina Surpasses US In Smart Speaker Shipments
China has surpassed the United States to lead the smart speaker market. According to new data from Canalys, China’s smart speaker shipments...
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10.3KMobile CommerceWallets Versus Stored Credentials: How Consumers Shop And Pay With Smartphones
Mobile commerce might just be the key to saving brick-and-mortar stores. Consumers use their smartphones to shop for everything, everywhere – including...
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6.2KIntelligence of ThingsHow Bonbouton’s Connected Insoles Track Health And Keep Data Secure
From fitness bands to heart rate monitors, consumers have a seemingly endless number of healthcare trackers from which to choose, but their...
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10.2KIntelligence of ThingsCan Regulating Wearables Protect Data Privacy?
The Intelligence of Things (IoT) has become a fixture of everyday life, with more than 14 billion connected devices expected to be...
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9.7KIntelligence of ThingsNew IoT Security Bill Exposes Rising Data Protection, Safety Concerns
Approximately 20 billion IoT-enabled devices will be connected by 2020. These items are fast, handle an increasingly large amount of personal and...
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11.4KIntelligence of ThingsThe Move To Regulate IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has firmly taken hold, with new applications — focusing on the support of consumer, business and industrial...
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3.8KToday In DataThe Next Frontier In Connecting Across Channels
It might be a bit of a cliché to note that we live in an increasingly connected world – though given that...
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15.3KIntelligence of Things‘Alexa — Is My Data Secure On Connected Devices?’
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices active around the world. As the IoT market...
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10.4KIntelligence of ThingsHow Autonomous Cars Will Upend The Grocery Industry
From connected cars to smart ovens, the Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem is projected to grow into every area of consumer life...
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6.7KSecurity & FraudComcast Launches AI-Powered Cybersecurity Service
Comcast is releasing an artificial intelligence-powered service that will monitor, block and tell customers about online threats to devices connected to home...
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3.4KToday In DataToday In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules...
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6.4KSecurity & FraudHackers Exploit Google Chromecast Bug
Despite being warned years ago about a bug in its Chromecast media streaming stick, Google has yet to fix it and hackers...
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136RegulationDeep Dive: The Costs, Complexities Of Managing Consumer Data
These days, consumers are almost always walking around with at least one, if not more, connected device. Whether they’re smartphones, tablets, wearables...
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19.9KPayments InnovationDid Payments 2018 Predictions Come True?
In about two weeks, 2018 will be one for the history books. And from a payments and commerce perspective, it really has...
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4.1KRetailOffice Depot Unveils Smart Home Installation Services
To help customers create a smart home or office, Office Depot is now an installation partner for Nest and Google smart home...
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4.0KRetailHow Five Retailers Are Catering To Smartphone Shoppers
Consumers are tethered to their smartphones, and their affinity for connected devices extends into commerce – they are using these tools when...
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7.5KRetailFrom Appliance Repair To DIY Commerce Platform
It was usually a weekend joy or an after-work nightmare for the person assigned the task: fixing the broken washing machine or...
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6.2KToday In DataToday In Data: Keeping Current In An Always-Connected, On-Demand Ecosystem
The world may not feel like a radically different place than it was at the turn of the last century – but...
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3.1KToday In DataToday In Data: Capitalizing On The Connected Future
From speakers to cars to video game consoles, it feels like every device is becoming a connected device. The opportunities that come...
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20.5KMobile CommerceWhat Black Friday Tells Us About The Future Of Retail
The verdict is in. Black Friday was a boon for online retail. Nostalgia still drove consumers to physical stores to snag and...
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6.6KPayment MethodsConnecting The Dots On Paying With Connected Devices
Black Friday looms. The holidays loom. Time to take stock, then, of How We Will Pay – in the retail setting, of course,...
