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For decades, payroll has been treated as administrative plumbing — essential, regulated and largely invisible. It is something companies do every two weeks, employees fret about as they wait, and finance teams optimize for cost and compliance.
But a growing body of evidence in the latest “Wage to Wallet Index,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence, WorkWhile and Ingo Payments,...
Let’s start with Amazon. In a recent article published on its site the company outlines how it is applying generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify online shopping by reducing the effort required to find, compare and evaluate products. Amazon frames the challenge as one of scale: With hundreds of millions of items available across dozens of categories, choice can become...
The term “crypto crime” might call up images of fraud or cyberthefts.
But increasingly, that phrase is taking on a more sinister connotation, with the number of physical attacks on cryptocurrency investors, some of which involve violent home invasions, nearly doubling year over year in 2025, Bloomberg News reported Friday (Jan. 2).
While media coverage of the attacks tends to focus on...
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly putting its operations in Argentina on hold.
“Today we notified users in Argentina that, following a review of our local operations, we have made the decision to temporarily take a step back from maintaining local services in the market,” the company told Forbes last week.
“This is a deliberate pause that allows us to reassess and...
Anthropic is embracing a “do more with less” philosophy to differentiate itself in the AI space.
That’s according to President and Co-Founder Daniela Amodei, who spoke Saturday (Jan. 3) with CNBC about the company’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI) development at a time when rival OpenAI is making headlines over its $1.4 trillion in computer/infrastructure commitments.
“I think...
Cisco is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Axonius for $2 billion.
That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 4) from Calcalist, which noted that Axonius was previously valued at $2.6 billion. However, the company denied that the deal is happening in a statement to the tech publication:
“Axonius is not in talks to be acquired by Cisco. Our strategy is to...
Has social media been the source of a “terrible devastation” upon society?
A pair of Silicon Valley veterans apparently think so, and have debuted an app they say is designed to offer a countering effect, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Jan. 4)
Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, two of the co-founders of Twitter and Pinterest, respectively, have raised $29 million for their startup...
China’s government is reportedly seeing increased tax revenue from online vendors.
That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 4) by the Financial Times (FT), which also noted the pressure the country’s new tax is placing on merchants.
Following the adoption of a new law last year, companies like Amazon, Shein and Alibaba have been turning over data about merchants’ profits, the report...
Somewhere between the last peppermint latte and the first “dry January” seltzer, the consumer psyche performs an elegant pivot: from recovering to romancing. Valentine’s Day is the annual reminder that love may be priceless, but the surrounding ecosystem is extremely price-discoverable, highly shoppable and increasingly optimized for impulse purchases made at 11:47 p.m. with next-day delivery and...
Extended households have become a defining feature of U.S. consumer finance, even as they remain underrepresented in traditional financial models.
PYMNTS Intelligence research shows that nearly one-third of consumers provide financial support beyond their nuclear family, including parents, siblings and nonfamily dependents, often while living paycheck to paycheck.
Among consumers...