The best robot vacuums we’ve tested for 2026
Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years...
HSBC Establishes Asset Management Business in UAE
HSBC has launched a United Arab Emirates (UAE) asset management business that it said will play a key role in its Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) wealth franchise.
The bank als...
Wayfair Participates in Google’s New Standard for Agentic Commerce
Wayfair said Monday (Jan. 12) that it participated in the development of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce and will soon enable shoppers to check out directly from Wayf...
Citigroup to Cut 1,000 Jobs in Ongoing Restructuring Effort
Citigroup plans to cut 1,000 jobs this week as part of a restructuring plan announced two years ago, Bloomberg reported Monday (Jan. 12), citing unnamed sources.
The bank said when annou...
Kroger, Papa Johns Test Gemini AI Agents for Retail
Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, a platform designed to help retailers deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can support shopping, ordering and customer ser...
B2B Payments Make the Leap to Real Time in Latin America
Digital payments in Latin America are transforming commercial transactions, as faster payment rails originally designed to broaden consumer access increasingly support business-to-business payments a...
