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Virgin Media O2 Bets on Affirm to Fuel Hardware Sales

by Midsou_Admin | February 6, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Virgin Media O2, a leading mobile provider in the United Kingdom, has partnered with flexible payment network Affirm to provide hardware financing. This collaboration will allow O2 customers to access Affirm’s pay-over-time options at checkout when purchasing mobile...

Early Buying Spree Cannibalizes Fourth Quarter Car Sales

by Midsou_Admin | February 6, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

AutoNation saw a year-over-year decline in vehicle sales during the fourth quarter due to a tough comparison to 2024 and a race to buy vehicles earlier in the year before the implementation of tariffs and expiration of electric vehicle tax credits, executives said...

AI Enters the Race at the Winter Olympic Games

by Midsou_Admin | February 6, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) is also entering the race at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy, which runs through Feb. 22, bringing a layer of machine intelligence to an event long defined as a showcase of human performance. From athlete training and...

Apple Opens CarPlay to AI Rivals Following Driver Demand

by Midsou_Admin | February 6, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Apple plans to allow other companies’ voice-controlled artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to operate within its vehicle interface, CarPlay, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 6), citing unnamed sources. The company is working to support these third-party apps in...

Home Depot AI Battles for the Pro Wallet

by Midsou_Admin | February 6, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The Home Depot has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature that helps professional renovators, remodelers, builders and specialty tradespeople create a list of the materials they will need for a project. With the new Material List Builder AI, these...

Small Businesses Dump Manual Workflows for BILL AI Tools

by Midsou_Admin | February 5, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Businesses and their accountants continued to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) agents and other digital tools in the quarter ended Dec. 31, BILL executives said Thursday (Feb. 5) during the company’s second quarter fiscal 2026 earnings call. BILL’s financial...

Amazon Q4 Results Show Agentic Shopping Push Beyond AI Spending

by Midsou_Admin | February 5, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Amazon’s Q4 earnings call on Thursday (Feb. 5) produced the number everyone repeated: CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon expects to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, “predominantly in AWS,” to add capacity for AI and core cloud workloads. But the call...

GrubMarket Hits $4.5 Billion Valuation as AI Optimizes Food Supply Chain

by Midsou_Admin | February 5, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

GrubMarket raised $50 million in a Series H funding round to extend the reach of its platform for the American food supply chain industry. The company does business in 70 countries around the world and aims to expand further, it said in a Monday (Feb. 2) press...

Affirm BNPL Volumes Jump 36% as 0% Loans Drive Broader Use

by Midsou_Admin | February 5, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Affirm’s fiscal second quarter illustrated how buy now, pay later is becoming embedded in routine commerce, where paying over time was once reserved for occasional large purchases. The company said Thursday (Feb. 5) that gross merchandise volume (GMV) increased 36%...

Roblox Posts Breakout Q4 After Chasing Older Core Gaming Market

by Midsou_Admin | February 5, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The gaming platform Roblox has been there as its over 100 million active users grew up. Now, the company wants to grow up, too. On Roblox’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings call Thursday (Feb. 5), executives stressed to investors that the youth gaming...