May 18, 2016
Amazon Prime One-Hour Restaurant Delivery Lands In NYC, Dallas
In an actual restaurant, waiting one hour for a meal is only acceptable in a Michelin-starred eatery or if plenty of appetizers help pass the time. However, diners in New...
May 18, 2016
Investment Perks Up And Teckst Gets Seeded
Increasingly, Americans prefer to communicate by text message — much to the dismay of everyone’s grandmothers, who just can’t understand why it is such a big deal to pick up...
May 13, 2016
Retail Bedfellows Roundup: eBay Gets Busy, Alibaba Gets Angry (Birds)
It might have made sense, according to the rules of retail a decade ago, to keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but the pace of play and rising...
May 12, 2016
The On-Demand Delivery Dilemma
It was really just a short time ago — less than a year really, when it seems every business was clamoring to describe itself as the Uber of something —...
May 12, 2016
Blue Apron Readies To Take On Increasingly Competitive Market
Times have quickly gotten competitive for Blue Apron, the arguably leading name in the meal kit space. Every good idea has imitators, after all, and given the sheer proliferation of...
May 10, 2016
Amazon Moves Into Meal Kits
In its continuing efforts to deliver any and all things that can be delivered, Amazon is launching its own meal kit delivery service. According to reports, Amazon is partnering with...
May 10, 2016
Alexa’s Evolving Ecosystem
“The future of payments is in the voice,” MPD CEO Karen Webster wrote on April 28 when the 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge was first introduced. And the future is getting increasingly closer...
May 06, 2016
The New York Times Is Delivering Food With The News...
For those of use who’ve ever perused a recipe in The New York Times and fantasized about preparing it before rapidly realizing we own absolutely none of the appropriate ingredients to prepare...
May 03, 2016
Why Uber Can’t Afford To Stop Innovating
Though it might be a relatively young company in the grand scheme of things, Uber is far from the startup phase of its development timeline. While it might still be...