Matchmakers

Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving industry 4.0 a shot in the arm.  The bleeding edge computing innovation is driving future-fit efficiencies within historically fragmented and labor-intensive industries, slotting productively into the current ...

It never hurts to brush up on basic skills, like how to make a roaring campfire in the woods before taking that next backpacking trip. How you make one also provides ...

We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they ...

There are worse ways to start a business than what happened when John Tabis was getting direct-to-consumer and subscription flower operation The Bouqs off the ground. As the story goes — the ...

Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for ...

The common view about Africa – once found in recent PYMNTS coverage – is that the vast, varied and massively populated continent represents the next frontier for eCommerce. The middle-class and disposable incomes are ...

If one doesn’t know where they’re going, sang one Beatle, any road will get them there — but not easily or efficiently. In an age of eCommerce (of two-hour delivery ...

Most of us, upon spotting a $10 bill on the ground, would pick it up and pocket it, assuming we were sure we were not stealing that money. It’s pretty ...

The world is becoming one big marketplace — even if the marketplace doesn’t always look like one. That’s not some ancient riddle updated for these roaring days of digital commerce ...

A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one.  And as Freelancer.com CEO and Chairman Matt Barrie told Karen ...

Talk with old-timers from the Bay Area – or people approaching old-timey status – and there’s a good chance you’ll hear stories, lamentations and rants about how that metro area ...

There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how ...

Amazon failed Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce, a visual search firm, when it came to the cheesy sweater — the one with, in his words, “little teddy bears all over it.” ...

Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker turnover rate is 73 percent every single year. This was ...

While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a similar story. They identified a ...

The home-selling season is upon us — and will be for the next several months. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sold in the U.S. sell between March and August each year, ...

If headlines are any indication, data breaches have made off with consumers’ most sensitive bits of information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card info and bank details. Advertisers pay ...

For physical retail, and department stores in particular, it’s both the best of times and worst of times. The headline topping the news this week was that, in 2019, more ...

In the U.K., says Labour Xchange Co-Founder Jonathan Key in the latest Matchmakers podcast, millions of people are underemployed. Matching ad hoc employees to work they want to do with employers ...

Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid to go home, but doing so in a ...

Human wrists deserve a break when it comes to payments, commerce and even authentication, right? To put it another way: Is there a better way to do wearables, to appeal ...

Matchmaking businesses aren’t exactly  a new idea — though the breathless enthusiasm of the tech press might lead one to mistakenly believe that the concept sprang into existence in 2009 ...

By almost any measure, John Gossart, COO and Co-founder of fundraising resource Goodworld, has done more than his fair share of public service. He served two decades in the military and ...

When last year’s flu vaccine turned out to be ineffective 80 percent of the time, it did not necessarily have to turn into a flu pandemic. The good news about ...

For much of the early 2010s, there was an emerging piece of conventional wisdom that millennials were on the verge of radically breaking from the behavior of their older siblings, ...

Before Benji Lanyado founded photography marketplace Picfair, he was a journalist covering the travel beat for a “publication whose name you would know” facing an ongoing problem. The images he had to ...

No matter the industry, nearly all U.S. employers are in the healthcare business, a reality reflected on balance sheets, and one that can keep even the most stoic CFO sleepless ...

Businesses of all kinds have a need for high-quality photo and video content on a near-constant basis. Even in a retail era where businesses and brands actively solicit user-created photos ...

Nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, the absence of which can produce a sharp sensation of dread and perhaps even spark panic. A growing number of companies are coming to ...

The process for buying a toaster oven should not be more transparent or more reliable than the process for buying a house. A toaster oven — even if things go poorly ...

There is a lot to be gained by matching senior citizens with college students, a lesson learned by Papa Founder and CEO Andrew Parker when he did some manual matchmaking ...

From music royalties to airline vouchers, there are many reasons organizations may need to push payments to individuals in various amounts, currencies, forms and frequencies, including real time. For instance, ...

The good thing about absentee landlords, or oft-maligned open-space offices? They provide an opening for businesses that can use digital technology to match office managers with the suppliers and service ...

As the Silent Generation is aging deeper into their 80s, and the oldest members of the Baby Boomer Generation are celebrating birthdays deeper into their 50s, elder care in the United ...

It’s an experience that almost every American adult can relate to: the holiday trip to an emergency room with an injured or sick child that becomes a half-day experience. It’s usually prompted by a just ...

Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope the DJ said the title and artist so ...

There is hardly a more difficult conversation to be had, CreditRiskMonitor CEO Jerry Flum told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, than the one the finance guys have with a sales guy about why they can’t ...

The art and science of using the internet as a tool to recruit employees hasn’t just fundamentally changed once in the last 15 or so years – it has actually ...

At first, consumers weren’t bothered by the steep climb in healthcare costs, because their employers were covering their services. If they needed emergency care, all they had to do was ...