As of today, the trucking industry is facing a severe shortage of workers. The digital economy has created a boom in the shipping industry, and it is having a hard time keeping up with the heavy demand for qualified personnel. Get the Full Story Complete...
The Pixel 2 isn’t Google’s first smartphone. It’s not even really technically its second phone — there were the Nexus devices of the past, and in some sense all Android phones. They weren’t Google phones exactly, but they were at least Google-adjacent smartphones. Get the Full...
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UnionPay is facing an increasingly competitive and complicated world these days. Some question whether the card-payment network operator will be able to overcome the struggle to “remain relevant” in a market that is quickly changing — and where consumers may soon be leaving card-based payments behind entirely. Get the Full Story Complete...
PayPal has announced that going forward Venmo users can instantly transfer funds from the app to their bank account. Karen Webster got the inside scoop on the upgrade and what it means for PayPal’s ongoing quest to build a more interconnected digital payments ecosystem.
Refugees are among the most unique groups of people for whom to enable mobile payments and other financial services. Clearly an acute need is there, but modern banking is built upon knowing one’s customers; and when all refugees have are the clothes on their back,...
Pinterest has snagged a round of headline fascination, as various segments of the tech press have been touting the apparently surprising revelation that Pinterest is no longer thinking of itself as a social media platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
When Visa and PayPal announced a strategic partnership that would see the largest payments network in the world and the largest digital payments network jointly leveraging their considerable individual strengths to accelerate the pace of digital payment innovation and adoption last July, then Visa CEO,...
Flywire — the payments business that aims to make large-sum, cross-border transactions in education and health care simpler, more transparent and less friction-filled — had gotten pretty good at being invisible. So good, in fact, that the six-and-a-half-year-old firm actually took down the silver medal at...
