The economy is trending in a positive direction: US consumer prices rose in December by less than forecast. We expect the Fed will stick with a wait-and-see approach.
DoorDash aims to transform how brands connect with customers through two new partnerships intended to make ads more relevant and shopping more personalized.
FDA flexes its muscles: It banned Red No. 3 and proposed requiring manufacturers to put new labels on the front of food packages.
Amazon faces technical and factual challenges as it transforms Alexa into an advanced AI agent, delaying progress and risking its market relevance.
OpenAI and Axios partner up: The AI firm will fund four local newsrooms in exchange for access to the publisher’s material.
On today's podcast episode, we discuss how the election influenced consumers' shopping habits, why returns spiked, and some way too early predictions for the 2025 holiday season. Listen to the conversation with our Senior Analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts Senior Analyst Zak Stambor and Analyst Rachel Wolff.
To compete better with Microsoft, Salesforce, and Zendesk, the company must prove the safety and utility of its offerings in this lucrative market.
With 75% of companies adopting AI and only 35% of employees trained, the widening skills divide could slow adoption and worsen workforce inequality.
Tools can streamline hiring but risk oversimplifying the competitive job market and could imperil HR roles.
In today’s episode of The Banking & Payments Show podcast, we talk about who the BaaS compliance crackdown will hit the most, why Walmart and Amazon will pilot pay-by-bank at checkout in 2025, and how consumer privacy will change under a second Trump administration. Join the discussion with host and Head of Business Development, Rob Rubin, and Principal Analysts Tiffani Montez and David Morris.
Inside Reddit’s international push: Multilingual tools boost engagement as markets like India and Brazil emerge as key growth drivers for 2025.
They’re designing their own pathways toward achieving financial goals and could use banks’ expertise.
BNPL providers approved 79% of applications in 2022 thanks to counteroffers for subprime borrowers
The tie-up brings Klarna to more merchants' checkout pages without the need for individual merchant partnerships, helping it save time and money and more quickly ramp up its payments volume
The launch will bring a needed boost to the industry, which has struggled to win over consumers and merchants
The incoming Trump administration aims to square a circle: Members of the economic team consider how they can implement tariffs without sparking inflation.
National security fears have little effect as users flock to RedNote. Monetization challenges and scalability questions could limit its ability to rival TikTok’s dominance.
Temu tests search ads in latest attempt to chip away at Amazon’s dominance: The lucrative revenue opportunity could offset rising costs related to de minimis crackdowns and tariffs.