Algorithms that set prices for vending machines, apartment rents, and hotel rooms are drawing federal antitrust scrutiny as regulators argue these systems can function like old-fashioned cartels, even ...

Fewer than two months after a competitor announced a similar deal, wireless payments provider Apriva Inc. this week reported that it would continue offering pre-Durbin Amendment discounted acceptance ...

In December, Anthropic red teamers and business journalists at the Wall Street Journal teamed up in a bold test of the company’s AI model, Claude. They unleashed two separate AI agents, one to run a ...

Hot food vending is no longer a novelty. It is a response to real market pressures and a sign that, once again, vending is ...

There are three general approaches to valuing a company, regardless of the industry in which it is situated. Several publicly traded vending companies exist, but most vending companies are closely ...

At least you’re not buying bottled water. Instead of filling up your empty water bottle at any available fountain or faucet, what if you could pay a vending machine to do it for you? That’s the ...

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