New Echo Owners Push Alexa To The App Store Top Spot, Plus Amazon And Home Depot Both Eye XPO And Toys R Us Fights For Survival. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mastercard’s SpendingPulse: Retail’s Holly Jolly Christmas | | While the Christmas season is always merry for consumers, it was a particularly festive year for retailers nearly across the board. Consumers responded strongly to positive economic trends and spent — and spent a lot. Some of that was expected and in line with the year's trends, and some of the spend was last-minute — but Mastercard’s Sarah Quinlan reported the news was mostly good, with just a few segments continuing to struggle. And, notably, she says the trends look like they will stay strong for physical and online retailers into 2018. | | |
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| | | | | | | How Digital Vouchers Give Budget Airlines A First Class Upgrade | | Is the physical travel voucher going the same way as the paper check? Low-fair airline company Ryanair recently launched a new digital business voucher for European companies to offer as an employee perk. Matthias Wenk, Ryanair’s marketing operations director, speaks with PYMNTS about how a digital-first voucher solution is improving convenience for the budget airline company as well as travelers — and how the company seeks to “cut out the middleman” from the offering. Read More... | |
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| | | | | The Year In Voice-Activated AI | | Voice-activated assistants have been hot for the last three years, but 2017 was the year that things got so hot that voice-activated assistants went mainstream and became hyper-competitive. We have all the highlights — the winners, the contenders and a few thoughts on how 2017 will set the stage for 2018 — right here. Read More... | |
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| | | | | | How Will We Pay In 2018? | | Connectivity reigns. Connected devices do, too — as does using them to pay for things. The June 2017 How We Will Pay study sheds new light on how consumers use — and will want to use — connected devices to pay for things, especially while doing other things. For a peek at how connected device payments will evolve in 2018, one might want to get reacquainted with data we collected six months ago when a couple thousand consumers told us exactly what they expect from those connected commerce experiences. Read More... | |
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