Virgin Money enters a hot field with its expense-management collab: Partnering with fintech Expend to offer an expense-management feature to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) puts Virgin Money in a space that’s attracting businesses and investors.

The UK-based neobank’s founder and CEO Anne Boden outlined plans to offer banking as a service globally in 2022, giving Starling a potential opening into embedded finance.

For US retailers, ecommerce conversions are increasingly taking place on mobile phones.

The second time’s the charm as Image Comics workers vote to unionize: Staff overcame the comic publisher’s initial reluctance to support the union.

On today's episode, we discuss how networks and distributors' continuing fight over retransmission fees will affect consumers and what an increasingly crowded streaming market will look like. We then talk about just how big in media Apple wants to be and the relationship live sports have with linear TV and streaming. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer senior analyst at Insider Intelligence Ross Benes.

Google infringed on five Sonos smart speaker patents: The ITC blocks import of Google products that violate Sonos IP after ruling.

Intel ramps up chip design efforts by hiring Apple’s chip engineer: Apple’s loss is Intel’s gain in 2022, which is poised for intensified silicon competition.

As retail media advertising continues to increase year over year, retailers and brands have the opportunity to better plan their digital advertising strategies

New products and technologies announced at CES 2022: We break down outstanding trends and the most compelling Connectivity and Tech announcements from the show floor.

The instant grocery delivery market is headed toward consolidation: The extremely high cost of 15-minute delivery in the US has startups built on the promise pivoting to longer delivery times and other services.

We expect Bitcoin’s price to rise as rocketing consumer adoption increasingly forces FIs to get in on the act

China deems personalized recommendations discriminatory and harmful to user well-being: The new law could discourage users from spending time—and money—on retail and social media platforms.

The offering gives small merchants an affordable digital payments tool and could complement existing POS tech for large businesses.