Coming out of the All-Star game last weekend, it is surprising that the curveball of the week didn’t come out of baseball. In fact, it didn’t even get pitched in the United States. No, this week in an epic fit of Apple being Apple, Cupertino...
As any Boston Red Sox fan knows, a good rivalry can really spice up the action. After thinking for 86 years that there could be nothing on Earth better than breaking the streak by winning the World Series, in 2004 the entire city of Boston...
Up until recently, if you typed “Greece” and “bitcoin” into Google, you would not get much in return. It’s amazing what a Greek debt crisis will do for search results. Last week, PYMNTS’ Bitcoin Tracker explored how the crisis had given bitcoin a boost — as prices...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css_animation=””]Like most modern wonders, the magic of automatic billing is something that is easy to overlook – probably because no one really likes thinking about paying bills as there are many, many more interesting ways to spend money. Which is...
Is bitcoin the way to avert Greek’s debt crisis? Well, if you simply look at the price of bitcoin – which has been rising in lockstep with the intensity of the crisis – you might be tempted to say yes. Since late last week, bitcoin...
Ah, summer vacation. But what a foreign concept for the biggest mobile payments players. PayPal will soon be independent, Google is crafting a new platform to manage all of its users’ mobile payments data, and Alibaba is possibly acquiring another mobile payments player. There is literally no rest for...
Bitreserve has had a busy two weeks. The biggest news of the week for Bitreserve, of course, was the naming of its new CEO Anthony Watson, who was recently poached from Nike to serve on Bitreserve’s board. As part of this transition, Bitreserve Founder Halsey Minor...
As the most profitable and best capitalized company in the world, it is utterly unsurprising that the subject of what Apple is going to do next never fails to interest — a situation doubtlessly egged on in no small measure by the fact that Apple is...
We know what to do when cards are compromised – we cancel accounts and reissue new ones. But what happens when a consumer’s personal identity is compromised? That’s the topic we explore in this issue of The Digital Identities Tracker TM, powered by Oberthur. Find out...
