US adults spend significantly more time listening to terrestrial radio than to any other ad-supported audio format.
Intuit and Mailchimp team up to help small and medium-sized businesses: The two combined will provide ecommerce, marketing, customer management, and financial services for those merchants.
A unified US AI strategy could accelerate innovation beyond core regions: So far, the Bay Area and early-adopting metro areas make up the majority of AI uptake in the US, per a new report.
Global crypto ETF assets tripled to $9 billion year over year—and US market players are set to boost AUM and revenues once given the regulatory green light, switching global volume growth into overdrive.
The Epic v. Apple ruling dings both companies, and the fight isn’t over: Apple has to loosen payment restrictions while Epic has to pay a fine, but Fortnite won’t return to the App Store yet.
MoneyLion joins the crypto crowd and gets a shot at loyalty-building: Customers can trade in Bitcoin and Ethereum, and round up debit purchases in Bitcoin. This gives the neobank’s users more reasons to remain within its ecosystem.
TransUnion acquires Neustar for $3.1 billion: The credit-scoring giant looks to expand into digital marketing via the identity resolution company.
The government is pushing for a sharper divide between Alipay and Ant Group’s loan business by making the latter spin off the division—which includes short-term loan product Jiebei and virtual credit card Huabei—into a standalone app.
Akoya adds TD Bank to its data-sharing system: Bringing another of its investors onto its financial data network will help the open-banking provider in the competition to become a de facto dominant standard in the US.
The banking giant’s plan to roll up its marketing and digital teams amid the departure of its chief marketing officer is consistent with how its digital head and his peers view these evolving functions.
Amazon operates close to 600 physical stores in the US, the majority of which are locations of grocer Whole Foods Market, which Amazon acquired in 2017.