How much is Fido worth to an average American family? Well, if you look at how much consumers shell out for their pooches every year, it seems those pups are supporting an entire sector of commerce on their own. Yes, dog commerce is very much...
Imagine this scenario. Forget Apple Pay (many already do, it seems). Forgot debit and credit cards. In fact, cut them up. Now, go take all the money you need to live on for a year and convert it into bitcoin. And no cheating. No backup...
Scarlett O’Hara famously closed out the first part of “Gone With The Wind” with, arguably, the book’s (and movie’s) most famous line: “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” It seems Scarlett has more than a few fans in Silicon Valley as...
Both Target and Walmart’s earnings results showed the retail giants are focused on driving up sales by focusing on digital, but, as the past few quarters have shown, one retailer seems to better at threading the digital needle. After all, their Q2 metrics show it...
According to Google Trends, football was all that anyone was thinking about last week. If you were in that camp, we’ve got the scoop the stories that drove a lot of the headlines you may have missed: Amex and its new investor, EMV and its...
The start of the second quarter retail earnings season has been a mixed bag. Macy’s, for example, reported on Aug. 12 and reported a revenue and sales dip — attributed to a drop in tourist spending, overall consumer spending and a delay at the shipping ports. Macy’s,...
“What really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else’s,” Oprah Winfrey noted in her 2009 commencement remarks at Duke. She then noted: “And it is really fantastic to have your own jet, and anybody who says...
What if enabling and certifying EMV were as easy as installing a printer driver? As ISVs come to the final leg of the race toward the looming EMV deadline, that might sound like a welcome solution to the challenges associated with becoming EMV compliant. Peter...
On Thursday night, millions of Americans tuned in to watch something that might on the face of it seem surprising: the first televised debate between 10 of the 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls. It’s surprising in the sense that if one were looking to create a big...
