Новости за 24.03.2021

Yum! Brands, parent company of quick-service restaurant (QSR) giants Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, announced Wednesday (March 24) its acquisition of chat-based ordering and marketing platform company Tictuk. The company’s “conversational commerce” software enables consumers to engage with brands and to place orders through messaging platforms including SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram. “Omnichannel ordering […]

Mobile travel app Hopper has pulled in $170 million in additional venture funding fueled by its new partner in the travel industry, Capital One. Hopper said the goal is to create Capital One Travel for the banking giant’s cardholders, according to a Wednesday (March 24) press release. Hopper had reportedly attained “unicorn” status last year, meaning […]

Bitcoin has been around for more than a decade. And, depending on where you look, its role as a disrupter in financial services – allowing users to bypass traditional banking constructs and intermediaries – is just around the corner. But the reality, at least to analysts at Bank of America, is that bitcoin is really […]

Online home-building upstart Welcome Homes is aiming to expediently and smoothly put migrating millennials into new residences. In retail logistics, a last-mile frenzy has merchants and eateries competing for delivery providers. And in restaurants, more consumers than ever are using mobile apps to order takeout and delivery. All this, Today in Data. Data: $650K: Starting price of Welcome Homes’ current models, excluding land. […]

A crowdfunded California golf startup is looking to disrupt the industry’s big-box retailers with its on-course autonomous kiosks that allow golfers to try out new clubs and equipment before they buy them. According to Cadi Co-founder and CEO Tyler Gottstein, these unmanned eCommerce pods transform declining or nonexistent retail locations into thriving revenue producers — […]

One of the oldest and best known brands in the recreational vehicle industry said Wednesday (March 24) that the COVID-era’s lure of the outdoors is prompting younger people, families and first-timers to take up camping, a trend that drove record quarterly results at Winnebago Industries. For the three months ending Feb. 27, the Iowa-based company […]

Care/of will roll out a new vitamin collection in Target, according to a Wednesday (March 24) announcement, becoming one of the newest direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands to offer products through a retailer. “We’re thrilled to collaborate with Target in bringing Care/of’s honest guidance to the vitamin aisle,” Care/of CEO and Co-Founder Craig Elbert said in the announcement. “In […]

Yum! Brands — which includes KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, The Habit Burger Grill and more — has acquired Tictuk Technologies to advance end-to-end, omnichannel ordering worldwide. This is Yum’s second tech acquisition and aligns with the company’s digital innovation strategy. “As we navigate a consumer landscape reshaped by the events of 2020, we continue […]

Have you noticed there are more cars on the road again? And that folks are starting to venture out of their homes and into other people’s? It’s the great reopening we’ve been waiting for — and perfectly timed for spring — but with activity comes risk. Put another way: are you fully insured for the end of […]

Home décor retailer At Home Group Inc. reported that net sales surged 41.3 percent in the fourth quarter, according to a press release. The company posted $1.08 in earnings per share on $562 million in net sales for the fourth quarter, which, like the company’s fiscal year, contained one additional week. The results exceeded analysts' expectations of […]

This time last year, amid the sudden onset of the pandemic, accounts receivable technology company Billtrust had instituted a hiring freeze and clamped down on company spend. One year later, Founder and CEO Flint Lane delivered Billtrust's first earnings call as a public entity, following last October's announcement that the FinTech would become the latest […]

Progress in the payments arena relies on visionary innovators to challenge the old ways of thinking and drive the market forward. Often, however, those with a grand vision must be patient and wait for the ecosystem to evolve enough to support those innovative concepts. Luckily, the payments arena continues to strengthen the infrastructure upon which […]

The original use case for instant payments had an anniversary last week. It was March 17, 2016 when Uber launched its beta version of Instant Pay, a push-to-card solution that gave its drivers the option to get paid instantly after a ride was completed. The product – and its announcement – laid the foundation for […]