Toy-based films and adult collectors helped drive Mattel’s growth in the second quarter, Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz said during a Tuesday (Aug. 4) earnings call. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare introduced tools to help artificial intelligence agents on its platform make purchases. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...
Walmart has completed its acquisition of self-service streaming TV advertising platform Vibe.co. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...
Retail spent two years bolting chatbots onto websites that could field a shopper’s specific questions but never close a sale. Voice agents built on models like OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime are changing that, holding real sales conversations, asking the same probing questions a floor associate would and...
July 30, 2026
Amazon’s decision this week to scale back parts of its homegrown artificial intelligence portfolio has been taken by the marketplace as a retreat from the frontier-model competition. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our […]
July 25, 2026
Spain took home the trophy. The digital economy took everything else: our attention, our sleep, our snack budgets and, apparently, our remaining sense of distance. Uber data supplied to PYMNTS...
July 24, 2026
For the past 25 years, card-not-present payments have been built around a defensive premise: Prove the buyer is human, authorized and in control of the transaction. Fraud systems, merchant controls...
July 24, 2026
Mobile commerce is no longer just about buying on a phone. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
August 05, 2026
Toy-based films and adult collectors helped drive Mattel’s growth in the second quarter, Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz said during a Tuesday (Aug. 4) earnings call. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, […]
August 04, 2026
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare introduced tools to help artificial intelligence agents on its platform make purchases. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
August 04, 2026
Walmart has completed its acquisition of self-service streaming TV advertising platform Vibe.co. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
August 02, 2026
Efforts by American retailers to prevent shoplifting appear to be paying off. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
