AOL’s owner has reportedly found a buyer for the one-time internet service titan. Yahoo, backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is in advanced discussions to sell AOL to Italian technology company Bending Spoons for roughly $1.4 billion, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 2), citing...
Meta Platforms Inc, the social media giant behind Facebook, is ramping up its efforts in the voice-powered AI space. According to the Financial Times, Meta is planning to introduce improved voice features in its latest version of Llama AI, called Llama 4. The company believes...
Innovation can’t exist without foundational infrastructure networks to support it. Last week, PYMNTS reported that the Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership, which is spearheaded by Microsoft, BlackRock and others, is planning to spend up to $100 billion on artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, ensuring that the plumbing...
Chances are, you are reading this online. PYMNTS, after all, is a digital publication. And with the news Thursday (Sept. 26) that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is unlocking 1300 megahertz of contiguous spectrum for satellite service operations in order to “promote spectrum efficiency,...
April 03, 2020
On the other side of the pandemic — whenever that might be — might 5G and a new age of connectivity await? As Amy McCune, VP & COO of Ericsson North America, told Karen Webster in a recent interview, the shifts in the way we live, work, spend leisure time and even get healthcare delivered are proving […]
January 03, 2020
Bigger, better, faster — those are often the guiding principles for innovation, disruption and change in the digital and mobile worlds. What about smarter, and more diverse? Those traits could...
May 20, 2019
For Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing and giving away the World Wide Web protocol that shaped the internet as we know it today, the web at its...
May 13, 2019
Banking — especially mobile banking — offers ‘single points of failure’ that allow fraudsters to make off with victims’ data and money. Karl Kilb III, CEO of Boloro, tells PYMNTS...
November 18, 2025
Cloudflare has resolved an outage that shut down multiple high-profile websites on Tuesday (Nov. 18). The internet infrastructure provider said in a 19:28 UTC update on its status page that the incident it dubbed “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues” has been resolved. In its previous update posted at 17:44 UTC, Cloudflare said that its services were […]
October 02, 2025
AOL’s owner has reportedly found a buyer for the one-time internet service titan. Yahoo, backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is in advanced discussions to sell AOL to...
March 07, 2025
Meta Platforms Inc, the social media giant behind Facebook, is ramping up its efforts in the voice-powered AI space. According to the Financial Times, Meta is planning to introduce improved...
July 29, 2024
Amid a worldwide data breach surge, France is dealing with an older-school type of cyberattack. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (July 29), vandals have cut several fiber optic cables carrying...