Alibaba’s quarterly earnings: The ecommerce giant posted strong growth in its retail and global businesses, even though we expect its share of China’s total ecommerce sales to dip slightly this year.

Both companies delivered impressive Q2 results and may try to expand their core money businesses and move into high-growth sectors like cryptocurrencies.

Mexican corporate card provider Clara has neobanking potential: The fintech’s new payment solution gives businesses access to its credit line and lets them schedule as many as 100 payments at once. It’s another building block that Clara could use to become a neobank.

Santander says cashflow app will help UK SMBs’ pandemic recovery: The bank’s app, in partnership with fintech Tomato Pay, lets small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) view activities from all of their accounts in one spot and settle payments instantly.

Instacart hires key Facebook ad executives: Carolyn Everson joins the company as its new president—weeks after hiring Facebook alum Fidji Simo as CEO.

Yelp debuts new safety features: New additions will help businesses display COVID-19 vaccine requirements.

Now is the time for remote monitoring startups to take off: Cadence Health became the newest remote care startup on the block, with $41Mn in fresh funds and a strategic tie-up with LifePoint Health—here’s why now is a better time than any for startups like it to enter the RPM market.

Digital health solutions work better together: Innovaccer added healthcare AI firm Jvion’s prescriptive analytics platform to its suite of cloud-based digital health solutions—we unpack how smaller digital health cos are riding on the coattails of larger ones.

Discord courts brands: Jack in the Box is the latest in a string of brands attracted to the under-the-radar chat platform.

On today's episode, we discuss what brands are doing at the Olympics, when time spent on digital video might equal linear, Google's new privacy timeline, the significance of Square buying Afterpay, why marketers must start thinking in 3D, how to individually achieve “perfect productivity,” and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, analyst Blake Droesch, and principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna.