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Will Startups Be Shopping Malls’ Second Act?
July 06, 2015

It’s said that there are no second acts in American politics. Except that’s really not true — just ask Richard Nixon and Teddy Roosevelt. Some even say that Clinton’s second act could happen if his wife, Hillary, wins both the Democratic nomination and the presidency...

Can Social Commerce Spark The Movie Biz?
July 04, 2015

Fourth of July weekend means big money for a lot of businesses -- but not so much the movie industry, anymore. What happened? And can social commerce turn things around? A payments and commerce phenomenon that hasn’t found much success hawking anything else could be...

Buyable Pins Turn Bookmarks Into Marketplaces
July 02, 2015

Social media has long presented a lot of promise where eCommerce is concerned. It’s also one of eCommerce’s longest standing puzzles. As digital meeting places where people exchange their best (and worst) ideas, they have a tremendous power to inspire and move consumers toward purchases....

The Streaming Media Mind (And Money) Games
July 02, 2015

How much do you pay for streaming media? If you had to think about it, that’s probably good news for subscription-based services like Netflix. In the game of on-demand entertainment, all the major players perform a little sleight of hand.

Mobile And Restaurants | “Get Your Head Around It”
July 02, 2015

Restaurants aren’t easy work. Googling the phrase “Should I open a restaurant?” is one of the few sure-fire ways to get the Internet to give you a sure-fire answer — and in this case that answer is “no.” Googling “advice for opening up a restaurant”...

B2B Gets The B2C Treatment
July 01, 2015

B2B and B2C…maybe they’re not so different, after all. That’s the belief of Ryan Shields, CEO of Indaba Group, who shares with PYMNTS his thoughts on the commonality of the two spaces, and how they point to a bright future for B2B.

Is Sovereign Immunity For Tribal Payday Lending Coming To An End?
June 30, 2015

Short-term loans, known colloquially as payday lending, never fails to elicit a big response — if not always a consistent one. Foes of the practice point to the high double and triple digit annual interest rates and consumers swept into never-ending cycles of debt as...

Bitreserve’s CEO, “Bitcoin Girl” And Overstock’s Big Losses
June 26, 2015

Bitreserve has had a busy two weeks.  The biggest news of the week for Bitreserve, of course, was the naming of its new CEO Anthony Watson, who was recently poached from Nike to serve on Bitreserve’s board.  As part of this transition, Bitreserve Founder Halsey Minor...

eCommerce Is Going To The Dogs
June 25, 2015

On a bad day, many parents have mentally wished Disney out of existence. There’s only so many times a reasonable adult can be forced to listen to the soundtrack from the movie “Frozen” before he or she wants to punch the next person in a...