Karen Webster

What New Data Shows About Why Amazon is Buying iRobot
What New Data Shows About Why Amazon is Buying iRobot
August 15, 2022  |  Amazon Acquisitions

Joe Jones has become something of a household name in the last ten days because of an idea he had in 1989.  Jones is the...

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Why Retailers Should Worry About Inflation but Dread the Wealth Effect
Why Retailers Should Worry About Inflation but Dread the Wealth Effect
July 25, 2022  |  Retail

A new survey of U.S. consumers, hot off the presses at PYMNTS, tells a lot about how they’re handling the current economic turmoil and when...

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Amazon’s Fight for a Seat at the Dinner Table
Amazon’s Fight for a Seat at the Dinner Table
July 05, 2022  |  Amazon

Turns out that not many people order burgers at a restaurant that sells pasta and pizza, even though they’re a menu option. But many did...

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Why 2022’s Tech Wreck Doesn’t Have to Mean a Dotcom Crash Landing
Why 2022’s Tech Wreck Doesn’t Have to Mean a Dotcom Crash Landing
June 27, 2022  |  Connected Economy

Spanish-born, Harvard educated professor and philosopher George Santayana was a prolific writer, known best for his many aphorisms. Perhaps one of his best-known soundbites is...

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Is Apple Pay Later Really a Threat to Affirm and Other BNPL Providers?
Is Apple Pay Later Really a Threat to Affirm and Other BNPL Providers?
June 13, 2022  |  Apple Pay

Apple’s Project Breakout finally broke out a week ago today at Apple’s WWDC. It was then that Apple confirmed what was probably one of the...

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Revised Census Data Shows eCommerce Share Didn’t Plummet After All
Revised Census Data Shows eCommerce Share Didn’t Plummet After All
May 23, 2022  |  eCommerce

In 1986, Former President Ronald Regan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government, and I’m here...

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RIP Digital Transformation, We Hardly Knew Ya
RIP Digital Transformation, We Hardly Knew Ya
May 16, 2022  |  Connected Economy

It’s over. It’s done. Stick a fork in it. All those digital habits that consumers developed and fine-tuned over the last two years — they...

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It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot
It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot
April 25, 2022  |  Streaming

When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and INSEAD Professor Erin Meyer released their business book bestseller No Rules Rules in September 2020, they wrote that it...

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The One Big Thing Apple’s Project Breakout Needs but Doesn’t Have
The One Big Thing Apple’s Project Breakout Needs but Doesn’t Have
April 04, 2022  |  Karen Webster

Project Breakout is said to be Apple’s now-not-so-secret plan to turn itself into a full-fledged payments and financial services company by building its own acquiring,...

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