Goldman double-clicks on BNPL product with Apple: The bank will be the lender for Apple’s installment payments product—growing its loan-book and gaining know-how that it can apply to its own nascent BNPL offering, MarcusPay.
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Sustainability is increasingly top of mind for consumers in China. Many are making lifestyle changes to address the issue, spurred by the country’s many environmental catastrophes, as well as the government’s recent pledge to reduce emissions. And more than ever, shoppers expect brands to offer products and services with eco-friendliness in mind—and for the right price.
US ecommerce sales are projected to continue double digit growth.
Telehealth bridged some gaps in mental health disparities: Anthem’s recent claims data analysis shows Hispanic and Latino members were the most active users of telehealth for mental health—but there’s still a long road to establishing health equity in virtual healthcare.
Unite Us goes from referrals to predictions: Its social determinants of health platform that coordinates care between patients, health providers, and social services will now also identify communities’ social care needs.
Stadia looks to attract game developers: Google will cut the fee it takes from games sold on Stadia from 30% to 15% in an effort to promote development on the flailing cloud gaming platform.
Big Tech is backed into a corner: Facebook has followed Amazon and asked for FTC chair Lina Khan to recuse herself in its antitrust suit—a sign that the companies are scared regulation will actually stick this time around.
Consumers who opt in to Ring’s encryption will be the only ones able to view their video feeds. The move is an improvement on Ring’s checkered privacy and security past but falls short of critics’ demands.
The company acquired a Facebook team of engineers and physicists to boost its satellite internet venture off the ground. The stealthy acquisition is a much-needed injection of resources and talent as Amazon rushes to enter a market quickly being swallowed up by SpaceX.
The insurance comparison marketplace is eyeing a SPAC merger as it diversifies its product suite—yet another insurtech taking this route to enter the public markets.
As advertisers have cut down on how many demand-side platforms (DSPs) they work with, publishers have increased the number of their supply-side platform (SSP) partners. Lauren T. Fisher, executive vice president of business intelligence at research firm Advertiser Perceptions, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the company's latest wave of SSP research, why identity resolution is important, and what to expect now that cookie deprecation in Chrome has been delayed.
China could be ready to launch the digital yuan in early 2022, and India is building a CBDC framework while also warming up to Bitcoin.