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Retail Earnings: Nordstrom Up, JC Penney Improves
August 14, 2015

The start of the second quarter retail earnings season has been a mixed bag. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

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B2B Investment Tracker, Aug. 7-14
August 14, 2015

There wasn’t exactly an avalanche of venture capitalist funding deals this week in the world of B2B, but even so, a string of M&A activity fueled the market to more than $9.8 billion in investment. Here’s what happened: After a bout of absence, alternative lending...

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Is The UK’s Alt-Lending Explosion Sustainable?
August 14, 2015

P2P lenders in the consumer and business lending industry have seen incredible growth in the last two years, providing more than $780 million to these borrowers through marketplace lending platforms, according to reports in the Financial Times this week. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Bitcoin’s ‘Criminal Contracts’ And The Batman Effect
August 14, 2015

Bitcoin has inspired yet another technology that has some in the investor world worried that it will be used for the one thing bitcoin is commonly associated with: criminal activity. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Apple In The Enterprise
August 14, 2015

While most of the social mediaverse was buzzing about Apple and entertainment this week, the real action may have been more quietly unfolding on the enterprise serving side of the business. Apple is moving past its purely consumer serving roots - and looking to tap...

The Buy-Online Pick Up In Store Lift
August 13, 2015

Another month, another round of mixed retail results, according to RetailNext’s latest Physical Retail Pulse report. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...

When Marketing Bites The Wax Tadpole
August 13, 2015

Does “Bite the Wax Tadpole” sound like a refreshing soda to you? It didn’t for consumers in China, where (in some areas) that name was once the translation of “Coca-Cola”. That company learned a lesson -- as many others continue to do -- that, for...

Gift Cards As A Second Currency
August 13, 2015

For those who might find gift cards to be impersonal, change is on the horizon. Seth Barnes, Head of Marketing at United Online, shared with PYMNTS the vision for the new mobile gift card app Swappable, and how the technology behind it could subvert perceptions...

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Lessons From The Jet Set
August 13, 2015

“What really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else’s,” Oprah Winfrey noted in her 2009 commencement remarks at Duke. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...