6+ min ago  (536+ words) Telecoms now act as ready-made financial onramps, enabling partnerships like Ericsson-Mastercard to link mobile wallets directly to global payments and convert local mobile money into cross-border tools. In identity verification, who someone says they are across financial services can often…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago  (324+ words) Global technology company Sea has partnered with Google to develop artificial intelligence-powered innovations for Sea's core business lines, including online games company Garena, eCommerce platform Shopee, and financial services provider Monee. This marks an expansion of an existing collaboration that…...

5+ hour, 55+ min ago  (518+ words) Etsy is joining the Prompt Economy in a big way. Its fourth-quarter results, reported Friday (Feb. 19), showed improving buyer engagement and its first positive year-over-year gross merchandise sales (GMS) comparison since 2023. The company is shifting capital and execution toward its…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago  (560+ words) Marketplaces are shifting into transaction infrastructure, winning by unifying procurement, logistics and payments to enable fully automated trade, while many industries remain early in adoption. The velocity of change in B2B eCommerce isn't just moving the goalposts. It's creating a whole…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1819+ words) Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, a third of all retail sales happened at the mall. Susan…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (796+ words) Highly targeted ads often lead to generic landing pages, breaking context and weakening digital marketing performance. Fibr uses real-time intent signals (search, ads, referral source) to automatically tailor landing pages and boost conversions through controlled testing. Serving banks and healthcare…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (642+ words) Voice technology has spent a decade as a high-tech novelty, a hands-free way to set timers or check the weather that consistently hit a ceiling at the point of transaction. But in 2026, the narrative is shifting from "hands-free" to "agent…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (442+ words) Expedia Group is responding to the rise of artificial intelligence assistants and agentic commerce both by embracing them and by providing services that draw travelers directly to its own platforms, executives said Thursday (Feb. 12) during the company's quarter earnings call....

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (373+ words) Instacart's Q4 may have looked like a straightforward beat-and-raise, but the more consequential storyline for retailers, brands and the payments stack is how the company is using partnerships and AI to push beyond "grocery delivery" into an embedded commerce and retail-tech…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (21+ words) Amazon and Walmart Push Retail Innovation Into Everyday Consumer Services'PYMNTS.com Amazon and Walmart Push Retail Innovation Into Everyday Consumer Services...