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,...
Circle is a consumer financial services company founded by internet pioneer Jeremy Allaire to “transform the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money.” Allaire’s and Circle’s vision harkens back to the 1990s when the internet was a brand...
While B2C payments players often snap up most of the headlines, B2B players are often lurking in the background, gaining ground, making moves and quietly innovating away, though often is in a less flashy manner. Taulia is one such quiet payments players that steadily gained...
By all accounts, 2014 was the year of the “on-demand” economy. Ride-sharing service Uber recently closed out a $1.2 billion funding round, placing the start-up’s total valuation at $41 billion. That represents an almost tripling of the company’s value – a half a year ago Uber...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. This week’s bitcoin trivia: How much value has bitcoin lost over the last 12 months? Answer. 51 percent. This time last year, the price of bitcoin was 629.18. Today it is 310.15. The bitcoin world awaited word from...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 51 Bitcoin is sitting around the same as it was before Thanksgiving at 367.21 from 357.64, according to the PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. PYMNTS.com caught up with Purse CEO and co-founder, Andrew Lee. This week’s...
