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Luxury Mystery Boxes Turn Shopping Into a $500 Surprise
Luxury Mystery Boxes Turn Shopping Into a $500 Surprise
October 31, 2026  |  Retail

Luxury shopping has developed a new answer to “What did you buy?” “I’ll know in a moment.” Beezie, a platform that combines collectibles with digital...

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AI and Embedded Finance Raise the Bar for Payment Controls
AI and Embedded Finance Raise the Bar for Payment Controls
October 29, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Your Payments Got Smarter. Did Your Infrastructure? Faster payments compress the time available to catch a bad transaction, reconcile an exception or determine...

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Why AI Agents Will Live or Die on Permission
Why AI Agents Will Live or Die on Permission
October 28, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Grace Hopper, the Yale PhD in math, computer pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral, liked to tell audiences that “it’s much easier to apologize...

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Who You Gonna Call? The Librarian.
Who You Gonna Call? The Librarian.
October 24, 2026  |  The Weekender

If something strange is happening in your neighborhood this Halloween, you might want to call the librarian. Concord Public Library in New Hampshire is encouraging...

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The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It
The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It
October 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Remember travel agents? Not the AI kind. The real people kind. For anyone under the age of 30, here’s how it worked. You walked into...

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At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
October 20, 2026  |  Digital Payments

Your phone can handle the checkout. Your hand may still reach for the same old card. Twelve years after Apple Pay arrived, mobile wallets are...

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Luxury Shoppers Put Their Money Where Their Feet Are
Luxury Shoppers Put Their Money Where Their Feet Are
October 17, 2026  |  Retail

A banana-shaped heel is an unusual place to look for evidence of consumer spending discipline. But in luxury retail, financial restraint can apparently come with...

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More Than Two-Thirds of Firms Lose or Delay Revenue When Payments Fail
More Than Two-Thirds of Firms Lose or Delay Revenue When Payments Fail
October 12, 2026  |  B2B Payments

A failed payment can look small on a transaction screen. For the business waiting on the money, the effects can spread fast. Revenue gets delayed,...

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Online Auctions Put a Price on Strange
Online Auctions Put a Price on Strange
October 10, 2026  |  The Weekender

Somewhere, someone has decided that a drawer containing 171 eyeballs is worth $2,640. Presumably, they’ve also decided where to put it. The early 20th-century German...

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