The third week in July showed investment activity wilting a bit (was it the heat?) with only a few $100M deals. (My, aren’t we spoiled...) Unless you’re Ethoca – that managed to snag $45M to speed fraud detection and prevention. PYMNTS talked to Ethoca’s CEO...
Consumers will spend $1.8T shopping on their phones in the next two years? The quarterly Vantiv OmniReadi Index debuts today with an in-depth, quantitative assessment that suggests that most merchants don’t seem all that ready to cash in. With an average score of 64 out...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image image=”153864″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”MOBILE COMMERCE BY THE NUMBERS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Oswald%3A300%2Cregular%2C700″][vc_separator color=”grey” align=”align_center” style=”” border_width=”” el_width=””][vc_single_image image=”153866″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css_animation=””] Source: Mobile Ecosystem Forum: Global Mobile Money Report, 2015 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=””]...
Is the (loyalty) juice worth the squeeze? That’s how consumers are sizing up the loyalty benefits offered by retailers – benefits they expect to “wow” them across every channel they use. So, how far are merchants willing to bend their business models in pursuit of...
What do Greece and Latin America have in common? They keep showing up in headlines about bitcoin. In fact, an International Business Times article yesterday titled “What Greece can learn from bitcoin adoption in Latin America” digs into the question that many have been asking for weeks: Can bitcoin help...
Coming out of the All-Star game last weekend, it is surprising that the curveball of the week didn’t come out of baseball. In fact, it didn’t even get pitched in the United States. No, this week in an epic fit of Apple being Apple, Cupertino...
As any Boston Red Sox fan knows, a good rivalry can really spice up the action. After thinking for 86 years that there could be nothing on Earth better than breaking the streak by winning the World Series, in 2004 the entire city of Boston...
Up until recently, if you typed “Greece” and “bitcoin” into Google, you would not get much in return. It’s amazing what a Greek debt crisis will do for search results. Last week, PYMNTS’ Bitcoin Tracker explored how the crisis had given bitcoin a boost — as prices...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css_animation=””]Like most modern wonders, the magic of automatic billing is something that is easy to overlook – probably because no one really likes thinking about paying bills as there are many, many more interesting ways to spend money. Which is...