platform economy

Payments Orchestration Can Give Platforms Competitive Advantage
Payments Orchestration Can Give Platforms Competitive Advantage
June 03, 2024  |  Payments Innovation

The “platformization” of various business verticals promises to streamline online commerce. For example, digital freight platforms, such as Uber Freight, Convoy and Transfix, have transformed...

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Home Depot Teams With Instacart to Bolster eCommerce Offerings
Home Depot Teams With Instacart to Bolster eCommerce Offerings
May 23, 2024  |  Partnerships

Home Depot teamed with Instacart to offer customers same-day delivery on home improvement products. The partnership offers delivery in as fast as an hour from nearly 2,000 stores, according to...

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Instacart: Grocery Shoppers Ditch Merchants That Don’t Offer Smart Carts
Instacart: Grocery Shoppers Ditch Merchants That Don’t Offer Smart Carts
May 08, 2024  |  Earnings

Instacart is seeing in-store technologies impact grocery shoppers’ spending and loyalty. The aggregator’s CEO, Fidji Simo, noted in a letter shared with investors Wednesday (May 8) discussing its first-quarter...

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Orchestration Merchants Give Options for Who, How and Where to Pay, Spreedly Says
Orchestration Merchants Give Options for Who, How and Where to Pay, Spreedly Says
April 11, 2024  |  Platform Payments

Andy McHale, senior director of product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that online platforms offer advantages to all stakeholders — and they can offer...

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Guesty Raises $130 Million to Expand Short-Term Rental, Hospitality Platform
Guesty Raises $130 Million to Expand Short-Term Rental, Hospitality Platform
April 10, 2024  |  Investments

Guesty raised $130 million in a Series F funding round to expand the capabilities and global footprint of its property management software platform for the short-term...

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Instacart Taps Third-Party Integrations to Grow Its Presence in Consumers’ Lives
Instacart Taps Third-Party Integrations to Grow Its Presence in Consumers’ Lives
March 29, 2024  |  Technology

Instacart is taking a tip from eCommerce giants such as Amazon, expanding its reach into more parts of consumers’ day-to-day routines with its new Instacart Developer Platform (IDP). The...

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Gig Worker Wage Policies Pinch Consumer Demand, Driver Pay
Gig Worker Wage Policies Pinch Consumer Demand, Driver Pay
March 20, 2024  |  Gig Economy

What started as a move toward fairer compensation has evolved into a heated debate, pitting the interests of drivers against those of gig economy giants....

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Data Shows Digital Healthcare Platforms Get High Marks From Boomers
Data Shows Digital Healthcare Platforms Get High Marks From Boomers
March 07, 2024  |  Healthcare

Traditional healthcare systems are plagued by inefficiencies and opaque pricing structures, leaving consumers often feeling lost and frustrated. “Navigating a friction-filled healthcare system, not to mention the...

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StackOne Raises $3.6 Million to Grow Integration-Platform-as-a-Service Offering
StackOne Raises $3.6 Million to Grow Integration-Platform-as-a-Service Offering
March 05, 2024  |  API

StackOne has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to grow its embedded integration-platform-as-a-service (IPaaS) offering. The company will invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to grow this...

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