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The structure of work is shifting as digital platforms connect workers with opportunities in ways that resemble markets more than traditional employment. The Labor Economy is growing through systems that match supply and demand for work, even on an hourly basis, while also reshaping how and when people are paid....
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Digital payments innovation rarely advances in lockstep, and the divergence is becoming more pronounced as regulation, technological readiness and consumer habits pull markets along distinct trajectories.
Speaking with PYMNTS TV, Arjen Hollander, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Thales, described a global payments landscape...
The evolution of digital payments has often followed a predictable pattern.
As transactions become faster and more seamless, new layers of infrastructure emerge to support them.
Cloud computing, for example, enabled scalable payment processing, while APIs made payments easier to embed within software, and data analytics improved transaction insights.
Fraud prevention is now undergoing...
“Travel Firms Embrace Embedded Wallets to Boost Revenue and Conversion” is a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Marqeta. This data brief explores how embedded finance is reshaping the economics of the travel industry. Based on a July 2025 survey of 30 travel firms, the report shows that embedded payments, digital wallets and co-branded financial products are no longer peripheral...
Artificial intelligence is starting to look less like a novelty and more like a new kind of personal assistant, one that people increasingly tap first when they need to do something, not just look something up.
That shift was at the center of “How AI Becomes the Place Consumers Start Everything,” the December installment of PYMNTS Intelligence’s Agentic AI Report series. The report was...
Digital upgrades and artificial intelligence contributed to Ulta Beauty’s better-than-planned financial performance in the fourth quarter, Ulta Beauty President and CEO Kecia Steelman said Thursday (March 12) during an earnings call.
The specialty beauty retailer saw year-over-year increases of 11.8% in net sales and 5.8% in comparable sales during the fourth quarter, according to a...
Amazon plans to hold its annual Prime Day sale a month earlier, scheduling it for late June this year rather than July as it did last year, Bloomberg reported Thursday (March 12), citing unnamed sources.
Reached by PYMNTS, Amazon declined to comment on the report.
The change will impact both the company’s third-party vendors and its competitors, who often schedule their own events or...
Enterprise artificial intelligence agent platform Wonderful raised $150 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate its global expansion.
The round valued the company at $2 billion, it said in a Thursday (March 12) blog post.
Wonderful offers enterprises both an agentic platform and locally embedded teams who can help them deploy agents inside their organizations, the company...
Silicon Valley’s leading artificial intelligence companies are rapidly expanding their presence in India as they compete for access to what may be the world’s most important growth market for AI outside China.
The shift reflects a broader realization within the industry that the next phase of the AI race will be determined not only by breakthroughs in research but also by access to...