Tracker Series

News
Getting A Piece Of The Trillion Dollar Commerce Pie
August 13, 2015

Collaborate to conquer. That’s what players seeking to seize their piece of the trillion dollar cross-border commerce pie are doing. Unilever’s products can reach rural China, Amazon will facilitate U.S. food exports to China and Alibaba will make eCommerce efficient in Singapore. The August X-border...

Why Investors Are Flocking To Freight-Forwarding
August 12, 2015

Though this week was a quiet one in FinTech investments, with only few $100M+ deals – VCs seem to have found a new favorite place to invest - bringing the supply chain into the digital age.

Bitcoin On Wall Street?
August 07, 2015

Bitcoin hasn’t exactly been Overstock’s best friend – Overstock announced in June that it lost $117k in its investments in the digital currency so far – but Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has his own ideas for how the technology that powers bitcoin could shake up Wall...

Preparing For The $43 Billion mPOS Market
August 06, 2015

The global mPOS market will quadruple in the next four years to 54 million installed units. The market will expand to $43 billion by 2022 propped by adoption in newer verticals, financial inclusion efforts in growth economies and ease of use. This month's mPOS Tracker...

A Unicorn Is Born: Zscaler Raises $100M And Snags A $1B Valuation
August 05, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It has been a good year to be a cybersecurity entrepreneur — and business is booming since cybercriminals have had a busy and productive year and a half. But if there can be an upside to criminal activity, it has...

Cross Border Crème de la Crème
August 03, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”145784″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]The PYMNTS.com X-Border Payments Optimization IndexTM, powered by Digital River, is a product of in-depth research on more than 180 merchants based in 10 countries which quantifies the degree to which eCommerce companies are prepared to deliver a seamless experience to consumers in a country outside of...

Iron Mike, Taylor Swift, President Obama … And Bitcoin?
July 31, 2015

What do Mike Tyson, the world’s hottest pop singer and the President have in common? They all starred in this week’s bizarre week of bitcoin news. But that’s not all! How about reading about the misadventures of a Brit who found himself on the wrong...

Apple’s Revving Up For Retail
July 31, 2015

The summer is ending, which means retailers nationwide are getting into high gear. And first at bat is Apple who’s pairing up, revving up and gearing up to push more watches, more customers into stores and more users onto Apple Pay.

Investments
Investment Heat Wave, OneVest’s Financing Revolution
July 29, 2015

Fund flows perked up quite a bit last week, with two mammoth announcements outside the U.S. And the CEO of one venture that's making mammoth differences for lots of new ventures, OneVest, raised some dough of their own and tells PYMNTS there's more to crowdfunding...