connected commerce

Block’s Dorsey Says It’s ‘No Longer Just a Payments Company,’ But They Remain Its Core Focus
Block’s Dorsey Says It’s ‘No Longer Just a Payments Company,’ But They Remain Its Core...
May 20, 2022  |  Digital Payments

Speaking at the first Block investors day in five years, CEO Jack Dorsey’s main goal was to show that Block is “no longer just a...

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Costco Offers Discounted Apple Subscriptions
Costco Offers Discounted Apple Subscriptions
May 20, 2022  |  Subscriptions

Costco has started selling discounted subscriptions to Apple TV+, Apple News+ or Apple Arcade at discounted yearly prices, according to a MacRumors report Thursday (May...

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Google’s Bill Ready: Virtual Cards, New Wallet Create Passports, Pathways for Push Button Commerce
Google’s Bill Ready: Virtual Cards, New Wallet Create Passports, Pathways for Push Button Commerce
May 12, 2022  |  Payment Methods

The connected ecosystem moves beyond promise into reality when we have every piece of our digital lives easily accessible, easily retrieved and used. Bill Ready,...

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Partnerships Enable Online Sales of Auto Parts to ‘Do it For Me’ Customers
Partnerships Enable Online Sales of Auto Parts to ‘Do it For Me’ Customers
May 11, 2022  |  Commerce Connected

It’s difficult to sell auto parts online if shoppers can’t install them themselves.  Seeing an opportunity to serve these customers, eCommerce platform PARTS iD began...

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Lightspeed Commerce Unveils Retail Platform
Lightspeed Commerce Unveils Retail Platform
May 05, 2022  |  eCommerce

Commerce platform Lightspeed has launched Lightspeed Retail, an offering that combines advanced POS, payments and eCommerce into one platform. “Leveraging the power of headless commerce,...

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The Data Point: 61% of US Shoppers Gravitate to Basics as Inflation Presses Down
The Data Point: 61% of US Shoppers Gravitate to Basics as Inflation Presses Down
May 04, 2022  |  Connected Economy

Diligently tracking the movements and metrics of consumers in the connected economy, we’ve identified four important new consumer personas and facts about their buying behaviors....

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Data Point: Nearly 50% of Activities Comprising the CE Index Are Not Commerce Related
Data Point: Nearly 50% of Activities Comprising the CE Index Are Not Commerce Related
May 02, 2022  |  Connected Economy

We begin to think buying and selling are the main point of digital transformation, while payments and commerce in a broader sense are crucial functions...

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It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot
It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot
April 25, 2022  |  Streaming

When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and INSEAD Professor Erin Meyer released their business book bestseller No Rules Rules in September 2020, they wrote that it...

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PayPal Leading Digital Wallet in EU-5, Ahead of Cards in Germany, Study Finds
PayPal Leading Digital Wallet in EU-5, Ahead of Cards in Germany, Study Finds
April 19, 2022  |  Payment Methods

Few trends are truly global in scope — seismic shifts in behavior that transcend borders and languages. The digital transformation of payments can indeed be...

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