PYMNTS-MonitorEdge-May-2024

celebrity

Giving Financial Independence The Royal Treatment
Giving Financial Independence The Royal Treatment
January 11, 2020  |  International

For Americans, who didn’t grow up with a constitutional monarchy in place, the various ins-and-outs of the British royal family are a fun, if occasionally...

READ MORE >
Samuel L. Jackson Lends His Voice To Amazon’s Alexa
Samuel L. Jackson Lends His Voice To Amazon’s Alexa
September 25, 2019  |  Alexa

To offer Alexa’s first celebrity voice selection, Samuel L. Jackson has made a deal with Amazon. The Jackson “voice pack” will come to Alexa for an...

READ MORE >
College Scandal Sentencing Highlights Old-Fashioned Payments Fraud
College Scandal Sentencing Highlights Old-Fashioned Payments Fraud
September 13, 2019  |  Legal

Payments and commerce fraud comes in a variety of rancid flavors and uses a variety of tactics, many of them increasingly sophisticated, mobile and digital....

READ MORE >
Putting A Famous Face To A Product
Putting A Famous Face To A Product
March 30, 2019  |  Retail

Celebrity-backed brands are nothing new. As PYMNTS has previously reported, the original celebrity-endorsed products date back as the far as the 1760s, when the British royal family...

READ MORE >
Following The ICO Wave, SEC Is Warning Celebrities Away From Virtual Coins
Following The ICO Wave, SEC Is Warning Celebrities Away From Virtual Coins
November 02, 2017  |  Blockchain

Looks like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had enough of the sudden run of celebrity-backed independent coin offerings, or ICOs.  As of yesterday,...

READ MORE >
ObEN Raises $5M From Tencent To Take On AI Celebrity Scene
ObEN Raises $5M From Tencent To Take On AI Celebrity Scene
July 19, 2017  |  Startups

ObEN, which uses artificial intelligence-powered tools to create avatars that look and sound like real people, announced it has raised $5 million in strategic investment...

READ MORE >