After a star turn at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, the connected home continues its momentum with new manufacturers tying their once analog, manual products into automated, digital solutions. Many of the developments show that builders are taking the connected home from a “ground up” approach,...
Seven major global automakers have created a new charging network joint venture to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) in North America. The move will expand access to high-powered charging, the automakers said in a Wednesday (July 26) press release. The goal is to install...
For advertisers and the brands they work for, the Super Bowl is, well, the Super Bowl. With NBC charging upward of $6 million for a 30-second spot (Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, for comparison, pulls in about $9.5 million a year) for an event that’s...
The ability for safe drivers to share their actual on-the-road data with their insurance company and then be compensated in the form of lower auto premiums that reflect their conscientious cruising seems like a perfect arrangement. This as two of the world’s largest automakers signed...
July 10, 2020
Subscriptions are retaining their strength as “everything-as-a-service” (XaaS) joins the post-COVID chorus of business models that seem tailor-made for these strange days. PYMNTS’ July 2020 Subscription Commerce Conversion Index, done in collaboration with Recurly, shows how well subscription services are performing during the pandemic. Our July Index, which measures merchants’ ability to convert subscribers, found that firms’ average score rose […]
July 26, 2023
Seven major global automakers have created a new charging network joint venture to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) in North America. The move will expand access to high-powered charging, the automakers said in a Wednesday (July 26) press release. The goal is to install at least 30,000 high-powered charge points in urban and highway […]
February 18, 2021
Social shopping platform Personas Social has rolled out a bitcoin payment system, according to a press release. The company will now accept bitcoin payments for purchasing content on its Peeks...
February 08, 2021
Hyundai Motor Co. and its Kia unit announced Monday (Feb. 8) morning South Korea time that they are not in discussions with Apple Inc. about teaming up on an autonomous...
February 05, 2021
South Korea’s Kia, a multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, is seeking partners to assemble the Apple electric car in Georgia, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (Feb. 5),...
