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The story of digital transformation across the Connected Economy is becoming inextricably tied to expectations around uptime.
Whether the system in question is a cloud platform, a payments network or even a blockchain, the five nines, representing 99.999% availability, have become table stakes.
After all, in the early marketing of public blockchains, uptime was treated less as a...
Walmart is reportedly gaining a growing amount of online business in New York City.
The retailer is making these gains even as it has been blocked from building physical stores in the city due to opposition from labor unions and activists, the Financial Times reported Thursday (Dec. 25).
Over the past five years, Walmart’s eCommerce sales have increased in each of the city’s five...
Coupang said that while the perpetrator of a previously announced data leak accessed 33 million accounts, he retained data from only 3,000 accounts, did not transfer the data to others, and later deleted the data when news outlets began reporting the incident.
The company said this in a Thursday (Dec. 25) update in which it shared findings from an ongoing investigation involving...
The data of some Goldman Sachs clients reportedly may have been exposed due to a cybersecurity incident at one of the bank’s law firms.
Goldman Sachs alerted investors in some of its alternative investment funds that they may have been impacted by a data breach at Fried Frank Harris Schriver...
Google is reportedly rolling out a change that will allow users to change their Gmail email address without losing their existing data and services.
The change appears only in the Hindi version of a Google support page, suggesting that it will begin in India or Hindi-speaking markets, but the page says the feature will be rolled out to all users, CNBC reported Friday (Dec. 26). The...
The value of mergers and acquisitions (M...
Supply chain volatility became structural this year.
Throughout 2025, President Donald Trump’s tariffs increasingly served as a stress test for enterprise agility, making real-time data fundamental to decision-making, enabling CFOs to rethink procurement as a lever for operational resilience, and helping finance and procurement work together to map out supply chains in real time....
An Nvidia spokesperson confirmed Friday (Dec. 26) that the company acquired talent and tech from Groq, a maker of custom-built inference chips.
Groq said in a Wednesday (Dec. 24) blog post that it entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia for Groq’s inference technology.
Reached by PYMNTS, an Nvidia spokesperson said in an emailed statement: “We haven’t...
The 2025 story of the office of the CFO was not one about finance becoming more powerful or automated, much less agentic.
What happened during 2025 was that the finance function’s core mandate around controllership and a steady hand on the balance sheet became more relevant and more deeply embedded across enterprise operations than ever before.
The department’s role was not without...
In 2025, payments, banking and commerce crossed a quiet but consequential threshold. Technologies that once promised efficiency or differentiation became nonnegotiable foundations, reshaping how money moves, how risk is managed and how trust is built at scale. Across dozens of Trackers published this year, a consistent pattern emerged: The conversation shifted from “What’s new” to “What works,”...