There’s an old saying, taken from a story in the Old Testament, that goes something like this – “Be ever cautious, every rich man’s house has a servant’s entrance.” The saying is meant as a warning to never feel too secure. This week, it seems...
“Uh-uh. No way. Cold cucumber mush for thirty-something bucks?” –Phoebe Buffay, “Friends,” The One With Five Steaks And An Eggplant Every year, hundreds of perfectly nice meals are ruined when it comes time to pay the bill. As it turns out, nothing alienates lifelong friends, convivial...
In the United States each day, about 2 million people travel by air. On average, those travelers are in their late 40s and earn between $60,000 and $85,000 annually. And those 2 million passengers are evolving into an increasingly digitally enabled group. One-quarter of air travelers use Web–based...
Valentine’s Day in 2015 is a bit unique – it is cursed. Or at least many people might believe it is cursed, especially those who either suffer from triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) or paraskavedekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th), because this year the...
When people say someone is as “rich as Croesus,” they’re talking of to a time (B.C. time) when gold was first starting to be used as a currency. A time when Croesus of Mermnadae, the last King of Lydia, had accumulated an ungodly amount of gold...
What do professional baseball, Google, political forecasting and retail all have in common? A love of big data. Whether that comes in the form of Billy Beane harnessing its power to build a better baseball team, Nate Silver taking all the fun out of the...
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...
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....
“What should I make for dinner?” It is a deceptively simple question. One that has a variety of answers – all of which are now much easier today, thanks to mobile devices, apps, data and the cloud. For instance, on one end of the spectrum,...