Bitcoin has inspired yet another technology that has some in the investor world worried that it will be used for the one thing bitcoin is commonly associated with: criminal activity. The worry is over something called smart contracts. These crypto-enabled contracts are capable of serving...
Macy’s second quarter earnings revealed the trend that many major retailers have been facing with a modern day, digitally driven customer base that’s going online more, and visiting stores less. A preference for online, however, means more consumers are flocking to marketplaces and fewer consumers tend to stick to...
When MPD CEO Karen Webster kicked off Retail Reinvention 2015 last week (Aug. 4-5), she reminded the room of industry innovators from across the retail, payment and commerce landscape they had a front row seat to the reinvention of retail. While those at the two-day retail summit got the...
The average dweller of a developed nation is exposed to as much data in 24 hours as the average 15th century peasant was exposed to over the course of their entire life, according to new BBC calculations. If science is to be believed, while humans are...
Bitcoin hasn’t exactly been Overstock’s best friend – Overstock announced in June that it lost $117k in its investments in the digital currency so far – but Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has his own ideas for how the technology that powers bitcoin could shake up Wall...
The latest reports show the social messaging app is valued at $16 billion and according to multiple sources familiar with the company, Snapchat has its sights set on hitting the $50 million revenue mark this year. But who is going to take the reins in...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]This time last year, the payments ecosystem was waiting. Everyone knew Apple’s payments play was eminent – but the details remained mysterious. About a month later the mystery was over – Apple Pay was going to be tokenized, bio-authenticated, device-specific (to...
In just 15 short months, we’ll know who the next President of the United States will be. Sure, 15 months seems far off, but with the plentiful amount of candidates who have tossed their names into the hat, there’s going to be plenty of news...
Most Americans need a car. Some have recently opined that this trend may be coming to its end, pushed by the 80 million or so who reportedly prefer living in urban areas. According to Nielsen, 62 percent indicate they prefer to live in the type of mixed-use...