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Digital Wallets Push Gift Cards Into the Mainstream

Digital Wallets Push Gift Cards Into the Mainstream
Digital Wallets Push Gift Cards Into the Mainstream
August 18, 2025  |  Gift Cards

It’s rare to witness a classic payment instrument not just endure but thrive by reinventing itself. Such is the case with gift cards. Get the...

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Why 15% of Consumers Are Still ‘Skeptical’ About Mobile Wallets
Why 15% of Consumers Are Still ‘Skeptical’ About Mobile Wallets
August 18, 2025  |  Data & Research

Beyond the raw numbers of mobile wallet adoption, a recent analysis by PYMNTS Intelligence uncovers the psychological underpinnings of digital payment habits, revealing that it...

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Payments and AI Deals Push Tencent, Mastercard Stocks Higher
Payments and AI Deals Push Tencent, Mastercard Stocks Higher
August 18, 2025  |  Connected Economy

The CE 100 Index outpaced all benchmarks, with a big boost from the Be Well segment, where a key component got a thumbs up from...

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Amazon’s Grocery Push Threatens Instacart’s Climb in Aggregator Apps
Amazon’s Grocery Push Threatens Instacart’s Climb in Aggregator Apps
August 18, 2025  |  Mobile

It’s good to be Instacart these days. That’s the topline of our app provider rankings this week, which focuses on “aggregator” apps, or better known...

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Gregorys Coffee Builds Scale as Trade Pressures Brew
Gregorys Coffee Builds Scale as Trade Pressures Brew
August 18, 2025  |  SMBs

The coffee industry has long been split between the mass-market efficiency of global chains and the artisanal cachet of specialty cafes. Think: giants like Starbucks...

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Enterprises Confront the Real Price Tag of AI Deployment
Enterprises Confront the Real Price Tag of AI Deployment
August 15, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

The rush to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise operations is colliding with a complex and sometimes underestimated reality: Deploying AI at scale can be...

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Is Student Loan Debt a Ladder Up or a Weight Down?
Is Student Loan Debt a Ladder Up or a Weight Down?
August 15, 2025  |  Loans

It was Aristotle who said: “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” It could be a headline for the latest paycheck-to-paycheck...

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Amazon and Walmart Make Same-Day Grocery Delivery Retail’s New Battleground
Amazon and Walmart Make Same-Day Grocery Delivery Retail’s New Battleground
August 15, 2025  |  Retail

Amazon and Walmart occupy overlapping territory in retail but dominate in very different ways, largely because they’ve built their empires around different strategic identities. Get the...

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