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Coinbase Global reportedly said Thursday (May 15) that it is cooperating with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the agency’s investigation into how the cryptocurrency exchange used to report its user metrics. The company said the SEC is looking into whether Coinbase overstated the number of unique users in past disclosures, Bloomberg reported Thursday. “This is a hold-over...
U.K. payments company allpay is using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud intelligence to position it well for future growth. After adopting an AI coding assistant and migrating its systems to the cloud through Microsoft Azure, the FinTech provider saw a 10% boost in coding productivity and a 25% increase in production releases in just nine months — surpassing its total output from the...
A year after opening its first large-format physical retail location, Wayfair said it plans to open its third such store in early 2027. The home goods company opened its first brick-and-mortar retail location in Wilmette, Illinois, in May 2024; announced in a March press release that it will open one in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2026; and said in a Thursday (May 15) press release that it will open a...
Want or need a payment instantly? Whether you’re a consumer or a business, you’re more likely to get your funds in seconds if you — and the sender — are customers of certain types of banks. Real-time payments between bank accounts that happen in seconds from start to finish are becoming a pillar of modern finance. But far from all financial institutions have that building block in place. More...
Consumer spending, the key engine of the economy in the United States, is in danger of stalling. The U.S. Census Bureau released retail data Thursday (May 15) showing that sales growth slowed markedly after pre-tariff front-loading of consumer spending, especially for expensive, big-ticket items such as cars and appliances. Overall retail sales were up 0.1% month over month, on the heels of an...
Equifax has launched its B2bConnect small and medium-sized business (SMB) data on the Equifax Cloud, saying this optimizes the online search experience and provides near real-time access to the data. B2bConnect enables B2B marketers to query 67 million U.S.-based business records; use filtering and list-building features to identify top prospects; and generate sales and marketing insights that...
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools showed a surge in website traffic in the past two months, with Google a distant second and DeepSeek catching up quickly. According to new data from Similarweb, which tracks website traffic, daily average visits to ChatGPT and other OpenAI application programming interface (API) sites markedly jumped in April and continued to climb through May 9, the...
The B2B space is defined by its workflows and data, both of which can end up mired in complexity. But the space is undergoing a radical transformation that promises to smooth away the legacy inefficiencies that have long gummed up the B2B works. From artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping procurement practices to automation streamlining payment systems and geopolitical tremors influencing small...
Granola said Wednesday (May 14) that it raised $43 million in a Series B funding round and introduced the new version of its artificial intelligence notepad, Granola 2.0, which writes meeting notes and enables users to search through and chat with those transcripts. “With the new Granola, you get all the context from your team’s meetings, in one place, accessible to you with AI,” the company said...
Netflix is reportedly about to experiment with placing ads in the middle of its programming. The streaming service has created interactive “mid-roll” and pause ads that incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI), the publication Media Play News reported Wednesday (May 15) from the company’s upfront to advertisers. “[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the...