July 01, 2024
Report: Online Shopping Warehouse Boom Transforms Rural Towns
America’s love of online shopping has transformed communities like Shippensburg. The college town in the heart of Pennsylvania is the subject of a Bloomberg Businessweek piece published Monday (July 1)...
July 01, 2024
TikTok Joins Merchants’ Summer Discounting Dash for Paycheck-to-Paycheck Shoppers
As retailers and marketplaces look to summer sales to win the spending of budget-strapped consumers, TikTok Shop is joining the mix with its own discounting event. TikTok announced Thursday (June...
June 28, 2024
CDK Global Hackers Tied to 96 Cyberattacks in Past Year
The hackers who struck car dealership software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform CDK Global on June 18 and 19 are reportedly affiliated with a Russia-based group called BlackSuit. This cybercriminal group has been tied to...
June 28, 2024
This Week in AI: Transforming Accounting, Governance, Energy Efficiency and...
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution drives transformative changes across various sectors, from accounting and regulatory frameworks to energy efficiency and tech infrastructure. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz reports AI’s potential...
June 28, 2024
Australia Leads Global BNPL Charge, Triples US Adoption Rate
As buy now, pay later (BNPL) options become more common around the world, the Land Down Under is leading the charge by a considerable margin. By the Numbers On Wednesday...
June 28, 2024
This Week in Web3: Mt Gox Bitcoin and Crypto’s Future
The 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox served as one of the first, big crypto scandals. Over 100,000 creditors of the digital asset exchange lost over $9.4 billion worth of bitcoin...
June 28, 2024
Microsoft Reveals AI Security Flaw That Threatens eCommerce and Financial...
A newly discovered security vulnerability in artificial intelligence (AI) systems could pose significant risks to eCommerce platforms, financial services and customer support operations across industries. Microsoft has unveiled details of...
June 28, 2024
ChatGPT Finds Its Soul Mate: Meet CriticGPT
In Silicon Valley, a new kind of proofreader is hard at work. It doesn’t wield a red pen or squint at comma splices. Instead, this digital detective, born from the...
June 28, 2024
Toys R Us AI Commercial Signals Shift in Retail Marketing
Toys R Us has unveiled what it claims is the first-ever brand film using OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, Sora. However, creatives are criticizing the move, saying it could be a...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Nearly half of consumers in Mexico shop in-store without using digital shopping features — but merchants hear their customers’ cries for a better experience and are planning to add many. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 33-page report, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Mexico Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, features eight charts that provide a blueprint for merchants in Mexico to increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.