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...
An acquisition and an auction drove the bulk of investment activity last week. Of the venture back moves, alternative lending and electronification of documents paved the way. The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $5.7 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding,...
Well, just when everyone thought that New York would be Bitcoin friendly, they released the first draft of their plan that is anything but. Are these little town blues catching up with bitcoin? Get caught up on all the bitcoin news you really need right...
In another PYMNTS first, we’re going to bring you weekly scoop on ALL of the investments in the payments space – VC funding, strategic investments, buybacks, acquisitions – for both retail and commercial payments. This week we summarize all that happened in the month of...
Times have changed since Discover and American Express both helped the U.S. Justice Department prove its case that Visa and MasterCard exerted too much competitive influence in the card market by preventing banks from issuing cards carrying their brand marks. Now Discover has turned against...
Retail payments dominate this week, and data analytics and security, in particular, seemed to tickle the fancy of investors. Here’s what happened the week ending July 11th The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $329 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of...
