August 08, 2024
This Week in B2B: Capturing Real-Time Intelligence’s Competitive Edge
B2B operations frequently require a greater level of sophistication than their B2C counterparts. Payments, especially, are typically larger and more complex transactions and must mesh with monolithic, already-existing systems. That’s...
August 08, 2024
The American Express Decision and its Critics
The Supreme Court’s 2018 American Express (“Amex”) decision was its first involving two-sided platforms since the emergence of platform economics. As the Internet continues to facilitate the growth of two-sided...
August 07, 2024
Taco Bell Goes All-in on AI Drive-Thrus as McDonald’s Steps...
By year’s end, hundreds of Taco Bell drive-thrus could be taking orders without a human on the other end of the speaker. Yum Brands’ ambitious deployment of artificial intelligence (AI)...
August 07, 2024
Chime Teams With NCR Atleos on Walgreens ATM Partnership
Banking app Chime expanded its relationship with self-service banking provider NCR Atleos. The expanded collaboration will see Atleos begin branding ATMs at 4,000 Walgreens stores with the Chime brand to...
August 07, 2024
Wendy’s Purchasing Co-op to Deploy Palantir’s AI-Powered Supply Chain Solutions
Wendy’s Quality Supply Chain Co-op (QSCC), a purchasing cooperative that services more than 6,400 Wendy’s restaurants in the United States and Canada, teamed with Palantir Technologies to accelerate its digital...
August 06, 2024
Instacart Expands Services, Partners With Uber Eats to Integrate Restaurant...
On Tuesday (Aug. 6), Instacart announced an expansion of its service portfolio as part of its strategy to solidify its position in the online grocery market. The company has forged a...
August 06, 2024
Kickfin Teams With Shift4 to Automate Restaurant Tip Payments
Tip management software company Kickfin integrated with Shift4’s restaurant point-of-sale solution SkyTab. The integration lets restaurants using SkyTab automatically determine tip pools or shares and send payouts straight to employees’...
August 06, 2024
Yum Brands’ Acquisitions Build a Digital Foundation for AI Advancements
As Yum Brands aims to be a “leading global digital restaurant company,” per CEO David Gibbs, the quick-service restaurant (QSR) giant is tapping its tech acquisitions to create a unified...
August 06, 2024
DoorDash, Instacart Try New Angles to Gain Grocery Share
As on-demand delivery aggregators look to capture more of consumers’ grocery spending, key players such as DoorDash and Instacart are finding new ways to insert their technology into consumers’ grocery...