Karen Webster

PYMNTS Launches TechREG™ Platform to Offer Regulatory and Public Policy Intelligence on the Digital Economy
PYMNTS Launches TechREG™ Platform to Offer Regulatory and Public Policy Intelligence on the Digital Economy
December 06, 2021  |  Legal & Regulation

When I announced the acquisition of the leading global media and content platform on antitrust and competition policy, Competition Policy International (CPI), six weeks ago,...

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Who Wants to Be a Crypto Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Crypto Millionaire?
November 22, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Who wants to be a millionaire? For two decades, beginning in 1999, that was the name of one of the most popular TV game shows...

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Making Online Checkout Better Starts at the Beginning, Not the End
Making Online Checkout Better Starts at the Beginning, Not the End
November 15, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

A study conducted in 2011 by two University of San Diego professors says that people who read the end of a book first not only...

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How Regulation Could Shape the Connected Economy’s Future
How Regulation Could Shape the Connected Economy’s Future
November 01, 2021  |  Legal & Regulation

In an era of explosive growth in online advertising and social media spend, media experts still say that TV advertising is the most effective way...

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Why PayPal Buying Pinterest Wasn’t Such A Bad Idea
Why PayPal Buying Pinterest Wasn’t Such A Bad Idea
October 26, 2021  |  Connected Economy

After nearly a week of market rumors, PayPal released a short but sweet statement on Monday morning (Oct. 25) stating that it is not pursuing...

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The Connected Economy Takes Off
The Connected Economy Takes Off
October 18, 2021  |  Connected Economy

December of 2019. It would be weeks before the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in China. And months before The World Health Organization declared...

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Voice Operating Systems Like Alexa Will Power the Connected Economy: Here’s Why
Voice Operating Systems Like Alexa Will Power the Connected Economy: Here’s Why
September 20, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

Alexa and voice AI is to the connected economy what Microsoft was to the PC in 1990 and what iOS and Android were to smartphones...

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Seven Years Later, Only 6% of People with iPhones in the US Use Apple Pay In-Store When They Can
Seven Years Later, Only 6% of People with iPhones in the US Use Apple Pay...
September 07, 2021  |  Mobile Commerce

Remember this? It was about seven years ago – Sept. 9, 2014 – when Tim Cook took the stage at Apple’s WWDC and introduced Apple...

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To See What ‘Normal’ Looks Like, Watch Main Street SMBs
To See What ‘Normal’ Looks Like, Watch Main Street SMBs
August 23, 2021  |  SMBs

As the world navigates the latest surge in COVID cases attributed to the Delta variant, and medical experts caution that COVID will soon transition from...

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