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WePay’s $40M Week
May 20, 2015

While financial services innovation and tech probably do not occur to most people as particularly “flashy” areas, there is a noticeable preference shown toward the more dramatic side of the business. While it’s easy to write the tendency toward hyperbole off to “new media” press...

The Last Mile of the Procure to Pay Process
May 19, 2015

While payment automation appears to be everywhere, a surprising number of businesses are still using paper checks for invoice payments. PYMNTS recently spoke with Karla Friede, founder and CEO of Nvoicepay, a provider of ePayment solutions, who shared her thoughts on the benefits that companies...

Survival Of The SMB Lending Fittest
May 19, 2015

While it can be an overly used slogan – small businesses really are the backbone of the United States economy. Over half of the American workforce is employed at one of the nation’s nearly 30 million small businesses. And, this statement has been true for quite some time – small businesses have...

Consumerizing the B2B Experience
May 18, 2015

For B2B organizations that want to advance their businesses in the digital realm, they need to focus on the consumer point of view. PYMNTS recently spoke with Ken Quaglio, President of Siteworx, a digital experience agency. Quaglio shared his thoughts about the importance for B2B...

How The Dollar Shave Club Reinvented Retail
May 18, 2015

On the whole – payments and eCommerce is a fairly serious place, which is reasonable given the very serious sums of money at stake. However, when it comes to connecting with consumers, sometimes a light touch is what is called for – especially if one’s...

Oh The Places You’ll Go (PYMNTS Edition)
May 16, 2015

“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss There are literally thousands of predictions and pieces of advice currently circulating on the Web for The Class of 2015 that will occupy the...

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Global Spotlight: India
May 15, 2015

Each week, PYMNTS will turn the B2B spotlight on a single nation. This week we take a look at India, whose rapidly growing startup community and a growing B2B presence from some of the world’s largest names (think Amazon and Alibaba) combine for a robust,...

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Apple’s Freemium Fight
May 15, 2015

In 2003, Apple changed the face of music with the back-to-back releases of the iTunes store and the iPod. Apple did not invent the MP3 player – several versions were floating around mid to late ’90s – nor did they place digital music on the...

The Success Of Amazon Business Could Be A Coin Toss
May 14, 2015

Amazon Business, Amazon’s B2B online supply service, has arrived, and it is set to fully engulf AmazonSupply, Amazon’s older B2B commerce program Wednesday (May 13). Since Amazon Business was announced only weeks ago, Amazon revealed that it plans to eventually carry more than 250 million...