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Uber for Business has designed a new tool to make it easier for executive assistants (EAs) to arrange corporate travel.
The company’s new delegate profiles enable EAs to manage ground transportation for executives on their behalf, Uber for Business said in a Wednesday (April 24) press release.
With a delegate profile, EAs can request on-demand premium rides or reserve trips in advance for...
As consumers look to buy clothing online, PYMNTS Intelligence research reveals that digital shoppers are increasingly turning to Amazon to meet their apparel needs.
By the Numbers
The PYMNTS Intelligence study “Whole Paycheck Report: New Consumer Spend Data Finds Amazon Way Ahead of Walmart” estimates each of the two retailers’ market shares in various categories based on years of earnings...
Air travel is a complicated business — and those complications can get passed down to travelers.
From extended delays when waiting for refunds after abrupt flight cancellations, to spending hours and even days haggling with airline customer service staff, U.S. consumer frustrations with the airline industry’s take-it-or-leave-it way of doing business have recently started to boil over.
Wednesday...
Gone are the days when watching TV was simply a passive pastime, a one-way street where viewers absorbed content without any direct interaction. In today’s digital age, the television screen has become a gateway to a world of commerce possibilities, ushering in the era of TV eCommerce.
For advertisers, this convergence of entertainment and commerce presents a significant opportunity to engage...
EasyKnock has partnered with Piñata to offer EasyKnock’s customers access to credit building programs.
EasyKnock helps homeowners convert the trapped equity in their homes into cash and remain in their homes as renters, the company said in a Wednesday (April 24) press release.
Now, with this partnership, those customers can access Piñata’s reward and credit building platform for renters,...
DoorDash has teamed with Walgreens to offer SNAP/EBT payments at nearly 7,800 locations.
According to its announcement Wednesday (April 24), DoorDash is the first platform that enables SNAP customers to make purchases directly from Walgreens with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards and the first third-party delivery service provider to offer...
Independent research reveals that women have been underrepresented in many healthcare studies. PYMNTS Intelligence recently set out to dive more deeply into the subject of women and healthcare and identify disparities and contributing factors. We surveyed more than 10,000 U.S. consumers, asking a variety of healthcare-related questions and shared our findings in the first-ever 2024 Women’s...
Toy and game companies are seeing sales declines, as parents opt to spend on making memories for their children rather than on new products for them.
Toys and entertainment giant Mattel, for instance, reported in its first-quarter 2024 financial results Tuesday (April 23) that net sales were down 1% year over year, and the company expects challenges going forward.
“We do expect some decline in...
President Joe Biden has signed a law banning TikTok unless it’s sold within a year.
As NPR noted in its report Wednesday (April 24), the law is the largest threat so far to the popular social media platform in the U.S., though it will likely not immediately disrupt its business, due to pending legal challenges and other delays.
The law gives TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance 12 months to sell...
Despite outsized growth in Click-and-Mortar shopping opportunities in Brazil during the last three years, retailers there still don’t offer 39% of the digital features consumers want.
This is just one finding from PYMNTS Intelligence’s “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition,” which was commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions and drew on insights from 2,200 consumers and 622...