While everyone has heard the expression “you can’t win ’em all,” it’s sometimes hard to keep that top of mind when one is on a hot streak. Because even the biggest and most successful companies on the planet have to ride over a few rough...
Barbecues, fireworks — you know the drill: it’s Independence Day this weekend. Retailers know you need to prepare, and the smartest ones are using social media — namely Pinterest — to advertise their wares (while letting it seem like someone else’s idea).
There are a handful of big dates that stand out for PayPal — one of which hasn’t happened yet, but will soon be marked down in PayPal’s timeline of big events. That date, of course, is July 20, 2015: when PayPal officially splits from eBay...
How much do smartphone users care about wearables? Apple, Google and Samsung hope a ton, and they are pulling out all of the stops to not only get consumers to buy, keep and use them but also use them to make payments. Here’s a look at...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css_animation=”]An important predictor that helps retailers project just how much consumers are willing to spend is tracking how confident they are in the state of the economy. Or not, as the case may be. To better understand how consumer spending...
The wait is almost over. In 22 days, PayPal and eBay will officially be two separate entities trading on the NASDAQ – EBAY AND PYPL. “eBay and PayPal are two great, special businesses,” President and CEO of eBay Inc. John Donahoe noted in a statement that...
As the most profitable and best capitalized company in the world, it is utterly unsurprising that the subject of what Apple is going to do next never fails to interest — a situation doubtlessly egged on in no small measure by the fact that Apple is...
One of the biggest hurdles of mobile payment adoption — besides breaking existing consumer habits — is the fact that there simply isn’t a consistency about where or how consumers can actually pay using their mobile devices. Dinube is Europe’s latest digital payments network that says...
Attention, eCommerce merchants: Amazon is not your enemy. On the contrary, the company can actually help its partners increase its conversion rates 20 times over. In a lively and informative discussion, Patrick Gauthier, Vice President of External Payments at Amazon and MPD CEO Karen Webster...
