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The Social Commerce Emerging Market Share
February 09, 2015

Facebook currently reaches more than 1 billion people, but what CEO Mark Zuckerberg really wants is to reach is the whole world. So far, he’s about 6 billion short. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Why Payments Players Should Be Worried About The Anthem Breach
February 07, 2015

American poet Taylor Swift noted in her classic work “Shake It Off “The haters gonna hate (hate, hate, hate, hate), and the players gonna play (play, play, play, play).” However, if she was really on top of the trends, she might also have added  and the...

Visa, Apple Pay Paying Like A Pro At Super Bowl XLIX
February 06, 2015

A corporate slogan, in this case “it’s everywhere you want to be,” may never have been more literally true than it was last weekend when Visa was in Phoenix at Super Bowl XLIX. After all who wouldn’t have wanteded to be there in person to...

Connecting The Dots On Cybercrime
February 06, 2015

“We had no way to connect the dots.” 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 Today. By completing this form, you...

The Alleged Bitcoin Silk Road Hitman Operation
February 06, 2015

“Everyone knows too much.” — Dread Pirate Roberts, December 2011 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 Today. By completing this form,...

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And The “S” Stands For “Security”
February 05, 2015

Welcome to the monthly mPOS Tracker, a PYMNTS Special Report. In this report, we rank the players that we track, and score these players based on numbers and types of devices used, geographies where solutions are implemented, the number of payment types accepted, and more....

Where Flint Finds Its Spark
February 05, 2015

Greg Goldfarb may be one of the only merchant innovators Karen Webster has ever talked to whose company is not about to develop its own mobile wallet. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

The End Of Operation Choke Point, Sort Of
February 05, 2015

The premise behind Operation Choke Point, a joint initiative between the DoJ, FDIC and CFPB, was direct enough when it launched in early 2013. Instead of going directly after certain suspect industries – such as short-term lenders, pornographers, ammunition dealers, escort services or online gambling...

Mobile E-Commerce Share Shift
February 05, 2015

Go back five years and the concept of mobile gross merchandise volume (GMV) was hardly a dot on the commerce map. It was more of a speculative vision without a substantial user base to determine if mobile was worth investing during a time when budgets...