Connected Economy

The innovations in technology, connected devices, software, payments and cellular technology make it possible for people and businesses to connect with each other and do business via any device, an in any digital or physical location safely, securely, and in real time. This integration of the digital and physical worlds will transform the economy across the ten pillars that today represent its key cornerstones – pillars that are already experiencing the impact of disruptive innovation as new blended, digital-first experience-driven ecosystems are now taking shape.

Uber’s Strategic Shift Signals Investors Want Sustainability in the Connected Economy
Uber’s Strategic Shift Signals Investors Want Sustainability in the Connected Economy
May 09, 2022  |  Connected Economy

What a difference a pandemic makes. If we could boil the connected economy to one word that encapsulates the past two years, it would be:...

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Product Knowledge Gives Consumers Confidence to Buy Online 
Product Knowledge Gives Consumers Confidence to Buy Online 
May 09, 2022  |  Connected Economy

If consumers are to select a product and purchase it online, they need to feel confident they have the information to do it right. Sometimes...

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PayPal Combines COVID Learning With Digital Transformation to Pursue ‘Commerce 2.0’
PayPal Combines COVID Learning With Digital Transformation to Pursue ‘Commerce 2.0’
May 09, 2022  |  Connected Economy

If you remember Internet 1.0, it looked like a pinball machine and wasn’t very smart, making search results an adventure that often ended in disappointment....

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Banks Sidestep CE100’s Slide, Investors Seek Defensive Names in Healthcare
Banks Sidestep CE100’s Slide, Investors Seek Defensive Names in Healthcare
May 09, 2022  |  Connected Economy

To find the bright spots in a dismal week and to find where investors have been finding at least some safe haven, look toward the...

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El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Increasingly Unpopular with Bond Market, US Congress and Salvadorans
El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Increasingly Unpopular with Bond Market, US Congress and Salvadorans
May 06, 2022  |  Bitcoin

The bitcoin-boosting president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has bet the house on the first cryptocurrency. First by making it legal tender and then staking...

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Millennial Minute: 70% of Millennials Live Paycheck to Paycheck
Millennial Minute: 70% of Millennials Live Paycheck to Paycheck
May 06, 2022  |  Economy

We’re getting used to upheavals and disruptions at this point, but revelations of the extent of paycheck-to-paycheck living in the U.S. are impossible to ignore,...

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Connected Device Use Doubled During the Pandemic
Connected Device Use Doubled During the Pandemic
May 06, 2022  |  Connected Economy

America saw a connected device boom during the pandemic. A study in March 2021 found that the average United States household had 25 connected devices,...

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Sweetgreen Rethinks Loyalty with an Eye Toward Subscription Commerce
Sweetgreen Rethinks Loyalty with an Eye Toward Subscription Commerce
May 06, 2022  |  Retail

Sweetgreen, the Los Angeles-based, health-focused fast-casual chain with over 150 restaurants, is looking to combine a subscription model with more traditional restaurant rewards to boost...

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Virtual Service Appointments Boost Subscriber Satisfaction
Virtual Service Appointments Boost Subscriber Satisfaction
May 06, 2022  |  Innovation

Offering virtual service appointments as an alternative to in-person service calls at customers’ homes is boosting subscriber retention, ADT executives said Thursday (May 5) during...

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