Новости за 15.06.2024

As Father’s Day approaches, retailers are seizing on different paternal stereotypes to drive engagement and sales, from dad jokes to “dadcore” style to that tangle of unidentified, no-longer useful cables that so many dads seem to be unwilling to part with. Panera, for its part, is rewarding consumers’ best and worst dad jokes with a […]

Two American tech giants are reportedly facing new regulatory challenges in Europe. One case involves Apple’s App Store, while the other centers on Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI. The Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (June 14) that the European Commision (EC) will bring charges against Apple after determining that the company is not complying with a requirement that it […]

A judge denied Google’s motion to end U.S. antitrust regulators’ case focusing on its digital advertising. In a Friday (June 14) hearing, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google must face a trial, Reuters reported Friday. The Justice Department’s case claims that Google illegally dominates the online advertising technology market, according to the report. In its motion […]

Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP) is reportedly exiting China amid weak consumer spending in that country. The Richemont-owned luxury eCommerce platform is moving to focus on its core and more profitable markets, Bloomberg reported Friday (June 14), citing an emailed statement from a Richemont spokesperson. The Net-A-Porter platform was launched in China in 2013 but was unable to gain market share […]

WEX has appointed Jason Hancock as managing director of its international payments division. Hancock has been with the global commerce platform since 2021, serving as senior director strategy, WEX Travel, and managing director, Travel & Corporate Payments, WEX International, according to his LinkedIn profile. In his new role, Hancock will lead the company’s B2B travel payments […]

Saturday (June 15) marks Elder Abuse Awareness Day. As more baby boomers and seniors go online to get their banking done — making payments, investing and paying bills or taxes — the fraudsters are finding elder abuse of a financial nature to be quite lucrative. Coming into 2024, the PYMNTS Intelligence report “How the World […]