Sometimes you don’t need a ride to travel. That’s a good lesson to remember as Thanksgiving and the holidays scatter American consumers to highways and airports for their annual visits. Because in the travel category for PYMNTS app provider rankings, Couchsurfing has taken the lead. The PYMNTS.com Travel Apps page offers a monthly ranking of…
A big shift in Apple’s App Store strategy could set a precedent for how mobile software may be developed and monetized. Apple has announced a new program that halves the standard 30% fee it takes from app developers on in-app sales for a category of software called “mini apps.” A CNBC report explained that the…
Who’s going to win the digital wallet for the holidays? It was a question we asked as November started. A quick check of the PYMNTS app provider shopping rankings for October showed a few surprises climbing up the ranks. The PYMNTS.com Shopping Apps page offers a monthly ranking of smartphone Shopping Apps, assessing them based…
The next wave of retail disruption may not come from faster payments or smarter checkout tech, but from the habits of mobile window shoppers — consumers who never meant to buy anything in the first place. The Global Digital Shopping Index from PYMNTS Intelligence, commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, suggests that “mobile window shoppers” are quietly…
What a difference Walmart makes. That’s one of the takeaways from our focus for this week’s app provider rankings: Credit card apps. MySynchrony led our most recent sweep of data on app usage and found that its recent enhanced relationship with Walmart could have been the driving factor behind a four-point gain for 55 total…
When it comes to travel, Generation Z consumers and baby boomers, two groups at opposite ends of the digital age spectrum, are behaving more alike than anyone expected. Both are holding onto their computers even as most consumers now reach for their phones to book a trip. The finding from the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Consumers…
Google argued against a Justice Department proposal that would bar it from bundling its YouTube and Google Maps apps with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) service, telling a judge Wednesday (Oct. 8) that these haven’t been found to be monopoly products. The argument came during the court battle in which the judge is developing a…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly said Friday (Oct. 3) that the artificial intelligence boom is an “industrial bubble” rather than a “financial bubble,” meaning that even if the sector’s share prices collapse, the technology’s benefits will remain. Speaking at Italian Tech Week, Bezos pointed to the fiber-optic cable that outlived the dot-com crash and the…
Cold and flu season is already on us with the dread COVID hanging around and new doubts being introduced about vaccines. Good time to check in on the PYMNTS App Provider rankings for Telehealth, and we found some brands, services and platforms that are decidedly under the radar. The PYMNTS App Provider rankings offers a…
Apple is building a ChatGPT-like iPhone app to test a revamped version of Siri. Still, the tool is restricted to internal testing only and will not be released to consumers, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 26). The app lets Apple engineers experiment with features such as searching through emails and music or completing in-app tasks like…