News broke yesterday about Amazon’s plans to sell a branded dongle at Staples, making it the 123rd player to enter this very croweded space. But while a giant player could become a powerful new entrant, SMBs are starting to show a change of heart towards...
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 35 “If bitcoin could help us be more efficient, we’d use it” said John Kunze, the CEO of Xoom who is in the money transfer business. PYMNTScaught up with him on a variety of things, and bitcoin came up. Interview is...
As former Square COO Keith Rabois launches one more “stellar” currency, Kanye West wins a lawsuit that shutters Coinye Bitcoin. Life in the land of the bitcoins and crypto-currencies is never dull.
Oh where oh where have the investments in Fintech gone? Well, last week, $8.9 billion of it went to a bunch of players in payments with acquisitions in the processing and security sectors leading the way.
What can all SMBs learn about omnicommerce from a specialty coffee roaster in New Hampshire? The need to embrace omnichannel tools and techniques to maintain the same kind of personal relationship they have in their physical stores across all of the channels their customers want...
While omnichannel remains an important focus of most retailers, most merchants say they lack the capabilities to support it. Yet most have plans to implement mPOS by 2016. Why? Because they view it as an enabler to the biggest merchant initiative of this decade: omnichannel....
The Winklevii launched WinkDex, NASCAR’s Alex Bowman wants to bring a Bitcoin sponsored car to the circuit and NY says get permission or get out. Just another week in the life of Bitcoin (who has a new competitor too).
Sure, the “big name” darlings in the industry are getting their share of funding but other startups, not so much of late. Are investors simply growing tired of the market and are looking to take their money elsewhere? Or is there a more plausible reason...