Why AI Agents Will Live or Die on Permission
Why AI Agents Will Live or Die on Permission Grace Hopper, the Yale PhD in math, computer pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral, liked to tell audiences that “it’s…
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Who You Gonna Call? The Librarian.
If something strange is happening in your neighborhood this Halloween, you might want to call the librarian. Concord Public Library in New Hampshire is encouraging patrons to borrow a ghost…
Payments
Built to Scale: How to Grow Embedded Payments Without Starting Over
Embedded payments can be relatively straightforward to launch, but successful growth changes what businesses need from their payments infrastructure. As volume rises, so can fraud exposure, compliance demands and operational…
Payments
At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
Your phone can handle the checkout. Your hand may still reach for the same old card. Twelve years after Apple Pay arrived, mobile wallets are gaining users, but familiar payment…
Consumer Spending
Luxury Shoppers Put Their Money Where Their Feet Are
A banana-shaped heel is an unusual place to look for evidence of consumer spending discipline. But in luxury retail, financial restraint can apparently come with very adventurous footwear. There’s growing…
Payments
More Than Two-Thirds of Firms Lose or Delay Revenue When Payments Fail
A failed payment can look small on a transaction screen. For the business waiting on the money, the effects can spread fast. Revenue gets delayed, staff spend more time fixing…
Retail
Online Auctions Put a Price on Strange
Somewhere, someone has decided that a drawer containing 171 eyeballs is worth $2,640. Presumably, they’ve also decided where to put it. The early 20th-century German prosthetic glass eyes sold at…
