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Going Into WWDC: The Good, The Bad And The Kinda Hard To Say
June 05, 2015

In about three days the countdown clock on Apple’s website will run all the way down to zero and the world’s biggest company will kick off its annual developers conference in San Francisco. Google’s I/O conference was last week and (paired with Microsoft) served a...

Exclusive Series
Restaurants Take The mPOS Cake
June 04, 2015

May was a big month for the mPOS players, with the hospitality sector driving demand and user adoption. Starbucks, in the beginning of May opened an express store in New York’s Financial District, where employees take orders on their handheld device to reduce customers’ wait...

May’s Big Finish (And Why Salesforce Likes Calendars)
June 03, 2015

Calendars are very hot this year. It is one of those statements that initially comes as a surprise on a platform that talks all about payments and commerce. But the calendars of the 2010s are no longer delivery mechanisms for photos of shirtless firemen or...

Controversial
Why PayPal Leads With Payments
June 01, 2015

In what is likely one of the more dramatic statements written in history about a software development conference, USA Today reported last week that Google’s I/O developers’ conference was the “latest salvo” in an “escalating arms race” among the Top 5 U.S. tech firms for...

The Lifeline to Financial Inclusion
June 01, 2015

  More than 2 billion people globally lack access to traditional financial services. PYMNTS collaborated with Mozido to create the PYMNTS Financial Inclusion Tracker, which dives deeply into the root causes of this problem and the methodology that can solve it. On a recent podcast,...

Apple Gets “Proactive”
May 29, 2015

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off in about 10 days in San Francisco. If you’d like to watch the clock count down you can click here, compliments of Apple, of course. As with all things involving Apple, the upcoming development conference has its...

Company Spotlight
The 911 Call For A Digital Identity
May 29, 2015

The conversations about digital identity and how to secure it have never been more active – or more necessary – prompted recently by any number of news reports related to the compromise of a consumer’s identity in a digital environment. There were the reports a...

Another Week, Another $2.1B (And eProdigy’s $100M Pick-Up)
May 27, 2015

After a strong showing with investors in the winter and early spring – it looks as though alternative financial services is poised to continue capturing investor interest going into the (we hope at least here in the Northeast) dog days of 2015’s summer. The latest...

Why Banks Aren’t Lending’s Dead End
May 26, 2015

The last 12 months have been good for alternative financial services. And this is quantifiable from a variety of vantage points. A decade ago, alternative financial services was mostly a euphemism for seeing a quasi-reputable, or in some cases totally irreputable lender. In the last year alone,...