platform economy

Instacart: Grocery Shoppers Ditch Merchants That Don’t Offer Smart Carts
Instacart: Grocery Shoppers Ditch Merchants That Don’t Offer Smart Carts
May 08, 2024  |  Earnings

Instacart is seeing in-store technologies impact grocery shoppers’ spending and loyalty. The aggregator’s CEO, Fidji Simo, noted in a letter shared with investors Wednesday (May 8) discussing its first-quarter...

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Orchestration Merchants Give Options for Who, How and Where to Pay, Spreedly Says
Orchestration Merchants Give Options for Who, How and Where to Pay, Spreedly Says
April 11, 2024  |  Platform Payments

Andy McHale, senior director of product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that online platforms offer advantages to all stakeholders — and they can offer...

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Guesty Raises $130 Million to Expand Short-Term Rental, Hospitality Platform
Guesty Raises $130 Million to Expand Short-Term Rental, Hospitality Platform
April 10, 2024  |  Investments

Guesty raised $130 million in a Series F funding round to expand the capabilities and global footprint of its property management software platform for the short-term...

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Instacart Taps Third-Party Integrations to Grow Its Presence in Consumers’ Lives
Instacart Taps Third-Party Integrations to Grow Its Presence in Consumers’ Lives
March 29, 2024  |  Technology

Instacart is taking a tip from eCommerce giants such as Amazon, expanding its reach into more parts of consumers’ day-to-day routines with its new Instacart Developer Platform (IDP). The...

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Gig Worker Wage Policies Pinch Consumer Demand, Driver Pay
Gig Worker Wage Policies Pinch Consumer Demand, Driver Pay
March 20, 2024  |  Gig Economy

What started as a move toward fairer compensation has evolved into a heated debate, pitting the interests of drivers against those of gig economy giants....

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Data Shows Digital Healthcare Platforms Get High Marks From Boomers
Data Shows Digital Healthcare Platforms Get High Marks From Boomers
March 07, 2024  |  Healthcare

Traditional healthcare systems are plagued by inefficiencies and opaque pricing structures, leaving consumers often feeling lost and frustrated. “Navigating a friction-filled healthcare system, not to mention the...

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StackOne Raises $3.6 Million to Grow Integration-Platform-as-a-Service Offering
StackOne Raises $3.6 Million to Grow Integration-Platform-as-a-Service Offering
March 05, 2024  |  API

StackOne has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to grow its embedded integration-platform-as-a-service (IPaaS) offering. The company will invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to grow this...

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Friction Fighters: How to Monetize Friction and Ignite Platforms in the Digital Economy
Friction Fighters: How to Monetize Friction and Ignite Platforms in the Digital Economy
February 12, 2024  |  Opinion

Decisions, Decisions It is said that the average person makes 35,000 decisions a day. Some, like whether to have oatmeal or eggs for breakfast, don’t...

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Platform Economics: How Instacart Leverages Time Into Profits
Platform Economics: How Instacart Leverages Time Into Profits
November 16, 2023  |  David S. Evans

Time is our most precious asset. Each day, we get just so much. Twenty-four hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. If we don’t use it, we...

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