Tracker Series

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Bitcoin Tracker | Week 31
July 11, 2014

Let’s play a little Bitcoin Jeopardy, shall we? We just gave you the answers, so tell us the questions. We’ll give you a hint. One of them is “How Much is Bitcoins.com expected to bring at auction?” See how well you do in this week’s...

Mobile Commerce
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 30
June 27, 2014

Intuit is “PayWithCoin” enabling small biz and the CFPB is giving this crypto currency a look-see. One family is taking its vacation this summer to places that only accept BTC but you’ll need cold hard cash to buy any of the stash seized by the...

Controversial
Square Co-Founder on Payments Innovation
June 20, 2014

Square co-founder Jim McKelvey is taking what he learned about innovation when launching Square to new start-ups in St. Louis. He believes that all successful innovators need three things to succeed, unless they are in financial services. In this week's Innovator Insight series MPD CEO...

Mobile Commerce
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 29
June 20, 2014

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here.   Bitcoin Tracker | Week 29 Bitcoin is still narrowly below $600 this week, at $597.46, up from $584.22 on June 12th, according to the PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. Despite the slight increase in trading...

Mobile Commerce
Rap Stars, Divorce Lawyers and Bitcoin
June 06, 2014

Bitcoin may become the hiding place for marital assets when relationships begin to head south, and Rapper 50 Cent is the latest “merchant” to accept bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin also even inched up a bit to $644.13 according to the PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index....

Company Spotlight
How Do mPOS Players Rank?
June 05, 2014

We admit it – we thought that just bringing you the monthly updates on mPOS was getting a little long of tooth. So, we decided to get a little “jiggy” with the mPOS Tracker. Starting this month, we’ll be going well beyond tracking only the...

Alternative Finances
Bots, Overstock and DishTV
May 30, 2014

The US celebrated Memorial Day this past week, but it might as well have been the 4th of July. Fireworks exploded in the bitcoin community over David Evans’ piece on Overstock’s acceptance of bitcoin, including from Patrick Byrnes himself. Then there were those pesky bots.

Company Spotlight
Are Merchants “OmniReadi?”
May 29, 2014

Omnichannel is clearly the retail industry’s “it” buzzword. At its best, it delivers the great promise of consumers moving fluidly between devices and shopping channels, with retailers in lockstep at all times. But, we’re just getting started. Each month, PYMNTS will bring you the Omnicommerce...

Merchant Innovation
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 25
May 23, 2014

Could bitcoin be settling down? Will the Fed regulate it? Do consumers pay more when they use it? Oh, where can bitcoin now be used that might surprise you? Get caught up in this weeks, bitcoin news.