Bitcoin prices took a nosedive this weekend falling a whopping 17.2 percent, in just 72 hours, from 311.05 on Friday to $257.61 on Sunday. That completes a rocky year of ups and downs for bitcoin, but mostly downs, with the leading crypto-currency falling 72.8 percent...
The year 2015 may just be the year the payments and commerce industry sets the tone for years to come. There were a lot of things that happened in 2014 that certainly set the stage for a big and important year. And, where there’s big expectations, there’s...
Welcome to 2015! With no more gifts to unwrap, champagne to drink or general festivities to take part in, there’s nothing left than to say good-bye to 2014 and get focused on 2015. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest (Mallory attempted the world’s highest peak three times and was killed during his third...
Mobile transaction trends are tricky to track, particularly on a global scale. Generally, we know that the rate of mobile adoption is increasing all over the world, but mobile as a way to make payments instead of a card in a physical store is still...
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For American venture capitalists, particularly those headquartered in Silicon Valley, 2014 was a go big, or go home kind of year. And they didn’t go home very often, betting pretty big on some yet to be seen big bets across all of the FinTech space....
While our mother’s told us that it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, (only how you play the game), as adults we realize that our mothers only told us that because we were children and we needed to build our confidence. As it turns out, how you play really does matter...
The year of 2014 was filled with ups and downs for the three masters of the e-commerce marketplace. Amazon hit it big in sales but fell short in the phone and profit departments, eBay and PayPal announced they’d be splitting (along with eBay’s CEO), and Alibaba set a record-breaking IPO but hit a few bumps...
