May 11, 2017
Why Millennials Love Subscriptions
When it comes to buying subscriptions, there is something of a generation gap emerging — at least when it comes to products, according to the latest data out from Vantiv. Services...
May 10, 2017
Why Wyndham Is Getting Into Grocery With Peapod And Instacart
Grocery delivery and hotels may on first glance seem like a set of strange bedfellows. But Wyndham Suites doesn’t think so. Hotels make millions per year on consumers who find...
May 09, 2017
Startup Maple Being Sold To UK’s Deliveroo
Maple, the food delivery company in New York, has shuttered its doors as of Monday (May 8). According to a report, the startup, which blasted on the scene a little...
May 08, 2017
Can A Connected Refrigerator Anchor The IoT Household?
It’s sure to guarantee bragging rights at cocktail parties, but how transformative can a smart refrigerator really be? The latest Intelligence of Things (IoT) Tracker™ digs into AI-infused appliances with...
May 05, 2017
Whirlpool Buys Recipe Search Engine Yummly
The Whirlpool Corporation, the world’s largest home appliance maker, has acquired Yummly, a visual and semantic recipe search engine and aggregator. According to TechCrunch, Yummly allows its 20 million users to...
May 05, 2017
Seamless Adds New Alexa Skill
Food delivery platform Seamless is making it easier for Alexa devotees to make repeat orders from their device with simple voice commands. As of yesterday, Seamless launched its Reorder with...
May 05, 2017
McDonald’s Mobile Moves
There are few businesses quite as expansive as McDonald’s, with 36,000 locations on Earth, about 15,000 in the U.S. and serving around 69 million people per day (or about 50,000...
May 01, 2017
Walmart Makes Cash Cheap, Banks Balk At Bitcoin And Startups...
Last week, earnings managed to steal the front and center show. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks and MoneyGram all dropped their latest round of performance data on the markets —...
April 25, 2017
Olo And How Order Ahead Levels The Playing Field In...
The secret of sales, Olo CEO Noah Glass told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, was first explained to him early in his career by a mentor. The situation, he said,...