It's been a strange week for everyone in the market - but especially Apple. In a rare turn of events, CEO Tim Cook threw caution to the wind and came out publicly, calming the market about Apple prospects, even in the face of the Chinese...
According to unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter, according to Bloomberg, the bidding war for U.K. payments processor Worldpay has just seen the entry of its German rival as a potential buyer. Also in the race is a joint proposal from equity firms Blackstone...
When the stock market opens and immediately drops a thousand points, it is an eye-catching moment for investors everywhere. And that is what happened on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. The reactions on the day were mixed. Some called yesterday’s adventures in investing a long overdue market correction...
Still laughing about the Ashley Madison hack? Might just be time to sober up. This time, watching an embarrassing hack unfold might have been a bit of guilty fun - but the Web is full of opportunities for consumers to do things they might not...
The big Apple news earlier this week was that despite all the fanfare around Apple Music – the fanboys didn’t show up. At least according to the source in the music industry who tracks such things. Apple said "no way, Jose" and shot back with...
Just about everybody in the retail industry has an opinion about EMV. For the most part, though, the essential part of those businesses -- the consumer -- doesn’t know all that much about it. Come October, there’s an opportunity for retailers to benefit from educating...
The terms of the Target breach settlement with Visa have reportedly been settled upon. Target will pay Visa card issuers as much as $67 million as a result of costs stemming from the retail giant’s massive data breach that hit at the end of 2013, The Wall Street...
A decade ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave birth to an intellectual debate with his declaration that globalization – driven by technology and the digitization of business and trade — had rendered the world effectively “flat.” And while that may have been true...
From unlocking a phone to paying for a purchase, our fingerprints have now evolved into more than just a way to identify ourselves. But at this year’s Black Hat USA conference, an annual global information security event series, FireEye researcher Yulong Zhang expressed some concerns...
