YouTube faces off against...Google? Alphabet will soon be exploring more avenues to facilitate time spent with podcasts.

Warner Bros. Discovery sees better days ahead: After a tough quarter, company aims to focus on streaming and turn the corner on the debt conversation.

Over two-thirds of retailers plan to ramp up tech investment over the next three years: Priorities include ecommerce and frictionless checkout experiences.

Google unplugs its robotic arm: Everyday Robots is the latest cost-cutting casualty. The timing is risky given Microsoft’s ChatGPT-robotics research and a potentially robust robotics consumer market ahead.

Big Tech wants to restrain ‘first global attempt to regulate AI’: Tech companies are lobbying hard against provisions of the EU’s AI Act. Accountability and public trust are at stake.

Connecticut’s attorney general wants the power to go after M&T: The headline distracts from the bigger issue—trust in a bank’s brand and how easy it is to lose.

It launched Tap to Pay on Android a year after it signed on to deploy Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone—helping feed demand for softPOS and contactless payments.

They were aided by high interest rates and low loan delinquencies. But this year, the effects from persistent inflation and the failed mini-budget still lurk.

Some traditional banks build digital “speedboats” to remain competitive, but they aren’t always successful.

Gen Z’s love of Apple is its secret weapon: The cohort should help it build its advertising business for years to come

AI has its uses, but a hands-off approach is far off: Marketers are using AI for a large range of applications as they shift to loyalty strategies.

In a video- and image-centric world, SEO is still the key to allocating marketing budgets, and Google has already done much of the research for you. “Every time Google shows a search result, they are displaying billions of dollars in R&D to understand the customer,” said Wil Reynolds, VP of Innovation at Seer Interactive, speaking at the Paid Search Association annual conference. “Billions that I don't have.”

Consumers kept spending even as inflation ticked up in January: That’s likely to push the Fed to keep raising interest rates, which is why retailers have modest expectations for the year ahead.

In today’s episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by analysts Carina Perkins and Paul Briggs, and researcher Man-Chung Cheung to talk about the buzz surrounding ChatGPT, and how different regions are seeing different patterns of development in the generative AI field.

Mercado Libre closed 2022 with record gains in sales: Strong performances in Brazil and Mexico drove the Latin American ecommerce giant’s gains.

Spreetail raises $208 million: The ecommerce logistics and channel management vendor works with over 500 brands to drive ecommerce sales on platforms such as Amazon and Walmart. (This article was written with the assistance of GPT-3.)

Patients use digital health tools, but don’t trust tech: Consumers say they don’t trust the very companies whose digital health tools they’re using. What gives?

Quality of care is more important than cost: Whether for major or minor issues, patients put care before cost—but they still want transparency about their bills.