Monzo’s BNPL offering could boost its bottom line: Its new Flex product includes longer repayment periods that come with interest—but transparency and a retroactive BNPL choice could make customers more comfortable with taking on debt.
Advertisers aren't confident that their digital ads are working: A shift to digital channels in 2020 coincided with changes to tracking and privacy that have shaken advertiser faith.
Fifth Third’s healthcare neobank deal bears early fruit: Provide beat its expected loan performance in August—indicating that the recently acquired player’s focus on a large professional niche could benefit the incumbent’s bottom line.
The partnership lets JPMorgan increase revenues and processing volume through Alibaba’s vast business—helping the bank further build out its wholesale payments unit.
More than half of US adults were first taught about investing by either themselves or nobody.
In every continent except Oceania, Android accounts for a greater share of smartphone web traffic than iOS.
On today's episode, we discuss Facebook's new Ray-Ban smart glasses, whether time spent on TikTok actually surpassed YouTube, what branded gaming on Roblox looks like, how to get noticed as a marketer, whether selling Super Bowl ads early is a good move, how to make friends while working from home, how two people reversed climate change in their hometown, and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer principal analyst Suzy Davidkhanian, director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, and analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch.
Nearly 10 years after the failed Google Glass launch, Facebook and other device makers are trying, once again, to make smart glasses mainstream.
DoorDash sues NYC over customer data-sharing law: Though the company’s argument that the law would hurt consumer privacy is technically true, it’s more likely that DoorDash hopes to maintain control over restaurants’ marketing communications.
WhatsApp takes on business discovery: The new in-app directory is its latest feature pushing to make ecommerce central to the platform. But privacy concerns still loom large in the background.
T-Mobile added a new cellular label called 5GUC, ostensibly to provide clarity—but the abundance of different labels may be having the opposite effect.