While most experts can agree that the rise in alternative lending has provided entrepreneurs and small business owners with otherwise difficult-to-reach working capital, critics have been turning the volume up on their calls for increased regulatory scrutiny of the market. Marketplace lenders and new forms...
In the past few weeks, B2B investment has been busy, though not in the usual spaces. Venture capitalists shied away from alternative lending startups and instead flooded funds to players in the fleet, logistics, eCommerce and financial services space. Get the Full Story Complete the...
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...
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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.
The confluence of commerce and technology has made it easier than ever to find out the details of not only what celebrities are wearing and buy it for yourself, but to do the same regarding the styles of your friends, or even strangers passing by....
Columbia House? Book-of-the-Month Club? Yesterday’s news. In a world where connected consumers have increasing control over exactly what they want, when they want it, and how soon, the subscription club model is going the way of the dodo. Online wine retailer Naked Wines might have...
In 1985, video games were a $100 million industry; that was after the great console crash that started in 1983 and drained 97 percent of the value of a once $3.2 billion marketplace. Though many predicted the end of home gaming with that crash, video...
While you may not think there is much you can learn from Donald Trump (except maybe how not to style your hair), a closer look at his unexpected success in politics has some real lessons for retailers everywhere. No, really, we mean it.
