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10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy
10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy
August 27, 2025  |  Connected Economy

In 2016, David Evans and Richard Schmalensee published the Harvard Business School Press book, Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms. The book explained what...

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Furniture.com Shifts From Aggregator to Marketplace With AI Agents  
Furniture.com Shifts From Aggregator to Marketplace With AI Agents  
August 25, 2025  |  Connected Economy

Buying furniture online these days is about as easy as hauling a sofa up a flight of stairs. Consumers browse multiple tabs, track shipping timelines...

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The Five Not-So-Obvious Things That Will Change the Digital Economy in 2025
The Five Not-So-Obvious Things That Will Change the Digital Economy in 2025
January 06, 2025  |  Digital Payments

It’s only been for the last 443 years that the start of the new year was celebrated on January 1st.  For millennia before that, it...

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Can Eli Lilly With LillyDirect Change the Delivery of Healthcare?
Can Eli Lilly With LillyDirect Change the Delivery of Healthcare?
January 22, 2024  |  Healthcare

Trying to get rid of the middleman seems to be a universal business pastime. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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The Eight Pivotal Strategies for Payments and the Digital Economy in 2024
The Eight Pivotal Strategies for Payments and the Digital Economy in 2024
January 08, 2024  |  Karen Webster

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Can Shop Cash Turn Shopify Into an Amazon Challenger?
Can Shop Cash Turn Shopify Into an Amazon Challenger?
November 03, 2023  |  Retail

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PYMNTS Intelligence: How Payments Orchestration Can Help Marketplaces Retain Merchant Customers
PYMNTS Intelligence: How Payments Orchestration Can Help Marketplaces Retain Merchant Customers
May 01, 2023  |  Digital Payments

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Aggregators Boost Merchant Acquisition and Retention With Payments Orchestration
Aggregators Boost Merchant Acquisition and Retention With Payments Orchestration
April 21, 2023  |  Aggregators

Randy Guard, chief marketing officer and product officer at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that merchant aggregators are confronted with a host of challenges when helping their...

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SMBs See Less Clicks and More Sales With Payments Orchestration
SMBs See Less Clicks and More Sales With Payments Orchestration
December 19, 2022  |  Payments Innovation

The right payment infrastructure can mean the difference between one less click on the way to checkout and therefore one more sale, says Volusion CEO...

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