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Social Commerce
Platforms Put Creators’ Financial Success on Fast Track

The creator economy landscape is rapidly evolving, with platforms and companies vying to support...

Retail
Estée Lauder Targets New Customers With Amazon Storefront, ‘Creator Council’

Estée Lauder Companies’ debut of its first brand on the U.S. Amazon Premium Beauty store has “greatly exceeded”...

Earnings
Kraft Heinz Sales Dip as Lower-Income Consumers Feel Squeezed

Cautious lower-income consumers and slower restaurant sales are squeezing Kraft Heinz. The packaged food product...

Regulation
Report: Block Faces DOJ Probe Over Alleged Compliance Lapses

Block, owner of Cash App and Square, is reportedly facing a Department of Justice investigation. Federal prosecutors are in discussions with...

artificial intelligence
Anthropic Launches Claude Chatbot App, Expands Enterprise Offering

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic is launching its first smartphone app and a new...

SMBs
68% of Main Street SMBs Leveraging Social Media See Increasing...

Since April 2021, most Main Street small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S....

Fraud Prevention
Consumers Demand Anti-Fraud Tools From eCommerce Merchants

As scammers and fraudsters become more sophisticated, shoppers are demanding more effective prevention tools...

Accounts Payable
Unimarket Introduces ‘AP Payments as a Service’ for US Customers

Unimarket has introduced its fully managed accounts payable (AP) payments service, Unimarket Payments, to the United...

Earnings
CVS Q1 Earnings Take A Hit From Insurance Venture

The volatile consumer healthcare sector showed up big in CVS’ Q1 earnings Wednesday (May 1),...

Economy
US Construction Spending Sees Unexpected Drop in March

Construction spending in the U.S. declined unexpectedly in March after being unchanged in February....

B2B Payments
B2B Virtual Cards Move Buyer-Supplier Relationships From Manual to Meaningful

Building a successful business rarely happens on an island or in a vacuum. Typically, success comes from...

ResTech
Toast Debuts Restaurant Marketing Tools as Diners Show Caution

Restaurant technology platform Toast has debuted digital storefront and marketing tools. Toast’s Digital Storefront...

Streaming
Peacock’s Price Hike Hints at Delicate Balancing Act for Streaming...

Peacock, the streaming service owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, continues to demonstrate strong appeal, with management revealing...

Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Launches iOS App Featuring AI Chatbot Claude

Anthropic launched an iOS app featuring its artificial intelligence chatbot, Claude. The app makes the chatbot accessible “from...

B2B Payments
Expensify Launches Expense Tracking Features for Self-Employed Professionals

Expensify has added expense tracking features for self-employed professionals to the latest version of...

Security & Fraud
UnitedHealth Still ‘Trying to Dig Through’ Cause of Cyberattack

UnitedHealth’s CEO said the company is still investigating a security failure behind a massive...

Earnings
Mastercard: Tokenized Transactions Grow 50% Year Over Year

Mastercard said in its most recent earnings report on Wednesday (May 1) that the...

BNPL
Sezzle Offers Rewards for On-Time BNPL Payments

Payments platform Sezzle wants to reward users to stay on top of their bills.  To...

Earnings
Yum Brands Q1 Earnings Show Digital Sales Surge Amid Broader...

Yum Brands, the company behind Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell, reported mixed results...

artificial intelligence
MongoDB Launches Program to Help Enterprises Implement GenAI

MongoDB has launched a program designed to help enterprises embed generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)...

Artificial Intelligence
Google Confirms It Will Join Global Experts at AI Safety...

As luminaries from academia, government and business prepare to gather in South Korea May...

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