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As AI Assistants Fight Over Shoppers, Infrastructure Gets Paid Either Way. | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost about $5.86 a ton. Loading it with McLean’s boxes cost 16 cents. The part of the story that matters here came a decade later. McLean owned the patents on the corner fittings that let the box stack and lock onto trucks, trains and ships. He could’ve
Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back. | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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Working capital efficiency fell 6% in 2026, erasing three years of gains. Early customer payments dropped to 12% of receivables from 35%, leaving firms with less cash to pay suppliers early. Top performers stood apart on predictability: 70% reported steady financing needs, compared with 3% of bottom performers. Picture the CFO at a $300 million industrial distributor. For three years she paid her key suppliers on day 10 of a net 30 invoice and pocketed a 2% discount for the trouble. It was polic
Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Have Already Cut the Lattes | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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Meet Tom and Elaine. (Our names, not theirs.) Both report household income between $65,000 and $70,000. Both are married, live in a city and say day-to-day spending is why they live paycheck to paycheck. For both, the next paycheck is critical to meeting their monthly financial obligations. On paper, they’re the same consumer. A bank, lender, merchant or financial adviser would put them in the same box. Then ask what each could cut if the budget got tighter. Elaine says she could find a few thin
Apple's New CEO Has a Hardware Event and an AI Problem | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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John Ternus has been Apple’s CEO for all of eight days, counting weekends, which I’m sure he worked. This coming Wednesday he headlines his first keynote, an event Apple has titled “Surprise and shine.” The press has already told us most of what’s on the slides. I’ll be listening for what isn’t. I’ve spent the better part of two years writing that Apple Intelligence wasn’t at all that, that a smarter Siri was a promise on a slide and that the engine that made Apple one of the most valuable compa
AI Disruption Has Plenty of Opinions. Now It Has a Prediction Market. | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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AI Disruption Has Plenty of Opinions. Now It Has a Prediction Market. Everyone’s heard the Sherlock Holmes story about the dog that didn’t bark. The one where a champion racehorse disappears and its trainer turns up dead. Everyone’s poking around the crime scene trying to find a clue to solve the mystery. Holmes eventually does by focusing on what didn’t happen. As in the stable dog that never barked. It was the clue that cracked the case. One might say that AI has a lot of dogs that aren’t bark
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