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Worldwide, retail sales growth has rebounded after taking a dive in 2020, per our forecast. Though growth rates won’t return to their pre-pandemic levels, they will stay steady through 2026. Meanwhile, ecommerce sales growth has decelerated after a few banner years, falling to single digits from 2022 through the end of our forecast period.

What’s all the fuss about headless banking? There's lots of buzz lately about banks that separate banking services from any branches, apps or user interfaces. We take a closer look at this variation on BaaS.

Lack of people and process training is the biggest obstacle to leveraging AI, cited by 42% of B2C professionals worldwide in a Twilio survey. Other barriers to AI adoption include security or compliance (36%), poor organizational processes (34%), and poor-quality data (31%).

Getting cash back is the leading motivator for opening a new credit card, according to 42% of adults worldwide, per January 2024 data from Kantar.

Netflix may have had an optimistic start to the year, but it still faces a series of threats and opportunities abroad if it wants to maintain its worldwide dominance. Here’s an overview of what the company can expect to face.

The top two reasons shoppers worldwide buy directly from brands are a better price (53%) and free delivery (49%), followed by fast and convenient delivery and free returns (both 36%), according to Wunderman Thompson.

Cryptocurrency volatility has tempered expectations for crypto payments. But it hasn’t erased them: Retail, remittance, and cross-border B2B payments remain in growth mode.

Yeah, well, it's interesting because we could obviously find something swimming deeper at some points because only 20% of the sea floor has been mapped. How insane is that? Making it the more mysterious place than the surface of the moon or Mars. So every time explorers go down to the bottom of the ocean, they could be seeing something no human's ever seen before.

And that hasn't gained much traction for them apart from in Southeast Asia. The UK rollout has been pretty slow. TikTok shop's adoption among brands in the US has reportedly not met a lot of interest. So the next one it's worked on is developing its own private label brands, which I think it's something it's doing in Europe. It's had its own retail brands before under its parent ByteDance.

Of course, the Nike shoes helped, and I was out there in a sea of orange and pink Alphaflys. Sara Lebow:. Jeremy, knowing that Sky could most certainly beat you in a race, why don't you give us the counterpoint here for Nike maintaining its retailer relationships? Jeremy Goldman:.

The Chinese economy shows signs of life: While that’s good news for retailers after flat growth last year, many are adopting conservative strategies to protect their bottom lines.

We look at 2022’s biggest tech flexes that changed the landscape of business or left us scratching our heads. The year saw Tesla’s CEO buying Twitter, Google exiting games, Amazon bringing back the dead, and TikTok expanding into various other segments.

It contains his drawings, theories, and observations on things like the movement of water, the luminosity of the moon, and why fossils of sea creatures can be found on mountains, so there's a lot in there. The book sold for a record, $31 million in 1994 when Bill Gates bought it. That'd be 55 million in today's money. Oscar Orozco:. Do we know if he still owns it? Marcus Johnson:. Good question.

It kind of reminds me how the Patagonian Toothfish became Chilean Sea Bass or, I'm in Chicago and we have an invasive species, the Asian Carp, which got rebranded to Coppi and maybe people will eat it now. Leather is bad for the environment. Cattle ranching is one of the largest sources of climate emissions.

On today’s podcast episode, we bring you the major themes that we witnessed directly from the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Recorded from the conference floor, we discuss the data and tech required to offer customers payments choices, expectations in embedded finance, and consumers’ privacy and trust. Tune in to the discussion with host Rob Rubin, our principal analyst Tiffani Montez, and Sean Welsh, senior vice president and managing director of financial institutions at Affinity Solutions.

Definitely really interesting to see the image search feature for TikTok shop users in the US and Southeast Asia can now take photos of items and upload them to be shown similar products and I think this is just obviously leaning into some of their strengths, particularly with Gen Z, 25% less likely to use Google than Gen X and what we're really seeing is a fragmentation of search experience and TikTok

TikTok aims to generate $20 billion in sales via TikTok Shop, and is expected to launch its own US ecommerce store soon. The platform is also leveraging new search features to become a hub for retail ecommerce. TikTok is also pushing new AI ad tools, and getting involved in a host of new media ventures. Here’s what the platform has been up to over the past month.