Google Pay Adds Faster Checkout Tools for Android Apps

by PYMNTS | May 27, 2026 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

Google now enables developers to enhance Android checkout by leveraging users’ stored credentials, including payment and address, from Google Wallet. The company has done so by bringing Express checkout with Google Pay for Android native apps, according to a Monday...

Retail Tech Startup Radar Secures $170 Million Funding Round

by PYMNTS | May 19, 2026 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

The company raised $170 million in Series B financing co-led by Gideon Strategic Partners and Nimble Partners, with participation from Align Ventures. Founded in 2013 by Spencer Hewett, a former Peter Thiel fellowship recipient, Radar utilizes ceiling-mounted hardware...

Survival vs. Splurge Defines the New Consumer

by PYMNTS | Mar 24, 2026 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

The most endangered species in retail isn’t brick-and-mortar. It’s the mid-market shopper share of wallet. Findings in the March edition of the PYMNTS Intelligence “Share of Wallet: Amazon vs. Walmart” report reveal that modern consumer is increasingly no longer one...

Why False Declines, Data Silos Are Next Big Payments Challenge

by PYMNTS | Feb 25, 2026 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

The payments industry is locked into a race toward speed. Faster rails, real-time settlement, one-click checkout, invisible authentication and more innovations are all pointed toward one assumption: that friction is the enemy, and technology’s job is to eliminate it....

Will AI Agents Replace Shopping?

by Karen Webster | Feb 18, 2026 | Client experience, Conversion, Technology

Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, a third of all retail sales happened at the mall. Susan shopped exactly the way the mall designers intended. The...