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Chainlink has teamed with the U.S. Department of Commerce to bring government macroeconomic data on-chain.
The new Chainlink Data Feeds, announced Wednesday (Aug. 28), aim to securely deliver important information involving key U.S. economic data on-chain, including real gross domestic product (GDP), personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index and real final sales to private...
Uber has added thousands of Dollar Tree locations to the Uber Eats platform.
A new partnership with the discount retailer, announced Thursday (Aug. 28), lets customers around the U.S. make purchases from nearly 9,000 Dollar Tree stores and have them delivered to their homes.
“Bringing Dollar Tree to the Uber Eats platform means customers can now enjoy the great value and everyday...
TransUnion said a third-party data breach affected more than 4.4 million customers.
The credit reporting agency revealed the breach in a filing with the Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday (Aug. 28). The company said the breach on July 28 involved unauthorized access of a third-party application that contained customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations...
Digital banking solution provider Infosys Finacle has integrated the Mastercard Move portfolio of money movement capabilities.
This collaboration will offer financial institutions streamlined onboarding and enhanced access to Mastercard Move and its cross-border payments capabilities, Infosys and Mastercard said in a Thursday (Aug. 28) press release.
With the new integration, financial...
The yardstick of retail success is becoming who can best deliver anticipatory and frictionless commerce, not in isolated channels but as orchestrated services.
Amazon and Walmart are at the forefront of this push, with a rivalry that is ultimately no longer just about who sells more to households. It is about who shapes the infrastructure of commerce itself.
Amazon is increasingly...
Dick’s Sporting Goods reported stronger-than-expected results for its second quarter, providing additional evidence in the surge of retailers’ latest reports that consumers are willing to spend in-store, and especially online.
Despite the 5% gain in overall sales, to $3.7 billion, and the 5% comparable sales growth that management said was tied to ticket and transaction gains,...
Taco Bell is reportedly rethinking how it deploys voice artificial intelligence (AI) in its drive-through locations.
After adding the technology to take orders at more than 500 locations, the company found that some customers have complained about glitches in it, felt uncomfortable with it, or played practical jokes on it, like ordering 18,000 cups of water, the Wall Street Journal ...
Instacart has launched a partnership with wholesale grocery distributor group Merchants Distributors (MDI).
This collaboration, announced Thursday (Aug. 28), is designed to offer Instacart’s eCommerce solutions to MDI’s network of independent grocers.
Those grocers, the companies said in a news release, will be able to join the Instacart App to offer customers same-day delivery. The...
Attio raised $52 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate its development of an artificial intelligence-native customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
The company will use the new funding to “invest heavily” in research and development (R...
Consumer spending, the main engine that drives the U.S. economy, continues to lay a solid foundation for growth.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis published Thursday (Aug. 28) its second estimate for the second quarter of the year’s GDP. The headline number indicated that real GDP grew 3.3% in the second quarter, 0.3% higher than what was reported in the advanced estimate, rebounding...