Albertsons Companies has set its sight on an untapped pool of funds — consumers’ health benefits. The grocery giant, which has more than 2,200 stores across the United States under a number of well-known banners, announced Friday (March 31) two new partnerships, one with global fintech giant FIS and one...
Whether Amazon buys AMC — or not — may be beside the point. The mere fact that the eCommerce giant has been rumored to be mulling buying multiplex real estate speaks volumes to the connected economy’s evolution, and the ways lines are blurring between online...
Depending on the month, the roster of those of us living paycheck to paycheck is up a bit or down a bit. But through the past several years, as tracked by PYMNTS and LendingClub, there’s one constant: Most individuals and households in the U.S. struggle...
German automaker Mercedes-Benz and Visa recently announced the rolling out of in-car payments technology, a move that is poised to usher in the next frontier of digital payments. Read more: Why Mercedes Benz Is Building the Operating System for In-Car Payments In an interview with...
The connections already forged between consumers, their mobile devices, home speakers and voice assistants will forge the connections between conversational AI, cars and commerce conducted from behind the windshield. At the end of last year, PYMNTS research noted a growing embrace of smart home technologies,...
No surprise – this past week was all about the banking sector. Investors fled banks, worried about how bad the contagion would get in the wake of the collapses of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. To that end, the banking group housed within the...
How consumers at different income levels behave around and interact with the connected economy diverges considerably, as new PYMNTS data shows. For example, the study “The ConnectedEconomy™ Monthly Report: Digitally Divided – Work, Health and the Income Gap,” based on surveys of over 2,700 U.S....
Digital commerce has long relied on personalization, so everyone from Amazon to Zillow knows what to show you from a universe of possible choices. That’s all moving up a notch with the Weds. (March 15) launch of the Element solution from Dynamic Yield. Marrying Dynamic...
SpaceX and T-Mobile will start testing satellite-to-cell service this year. So said SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Commercial Sales Jonathan Hofeller Monday (March 13) during a Satellite 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., Seeking Alpha reported Monday. With satellite-to-cell service, users will be able to send text messages and images from areas that are currently...
