article thumbnail

First-Class Perks Include VR Tech On Alaska Air

PYMNTS

Alaska Airlines announced that is partnering with French company SkyLights to pioneer a new virtual reality (VR) headset for its first-class passengers. The program makes Alaska Air the first airline in North America to trial the technology as an inflight entertainment device. I’m really excited to see this technology onboard.

Alaska 133
article thumbnail

What Grubhub, Uber Can Teach CUs About Loyalty And Rewards

PYMNTS

Technology companies are supplying them with the products and services their members desire, working with both individual CUs and credit union service organizations (CUSOs) to develop case management platforms, modernize systems and provide advanced loan software. A California Credit Union Keeps its Marketing Efforts Trusted and SAFE.

Alaska 154
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Microsoft Launches Teams After Four Months Of Previewing The Corporate App

PYMNTS

Microsoft is launching Teams, its chat-focused workspace for Office 365, on Tuesday (March 14) in 181 markets around the globe. The features were added to entice corporate customers and also includes technology that improves security, legal and regulatory compliance, noted the report. It’s part of an overall landscape that’s changing.

Alaska 100
article thumbnail

Ordering Pizza Looks Easy, But It’s Not — Here’s Why

PYMNTS

It had to choose between three platforms that had seen success at its 450 locations across California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and two international markets. The important thing, according to Round Table Pizza Director of Business Technology Andrew Kohn, was to continue to make it look easy.

Alaska 118
article thumbnail

Why 9 In 10 Merchants Put Subscription Product Details On A Pedestal

PYMNTS

These are some of the ways that merchants such as American Eagle Outfitters and technology companies such as Apple have implemented subscription features to drive conversions and provide clarity to potential subscribers: More than nine in 10 merchants — or 92.4 percent — had implemented product details in the fourth quarter.

Apple 118
article thumbnail

Moving Services Use The Gig Economy To Simplify Pricing For Consumers

PYMNTS

But services such as Bellhops are disrupting the market — and making a challenging time for consumers easier — by bringing an on-demand pricing model to the moving industry. We’d love to be in realistically all 50 states, barring maybe Alaska or Hawaii,” Miller said, adding that he hopes to be in the majority of U.S.

Alaska 102
article thumbnail

Retail’s Voice-Assisted, Meatless Summer

PYMNTS

The subscription commerce wars kept raging, and new operations and businesses entered the market or tweaked their models. The service reached this milestone after recent rollouts in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. New Subscription Push.