Retail innovation. Transforming retail. Changing the way retail is done. Those are the buzzwords you’ll hear in the market today as innovation is today’s retail’s status quo. The days of traditional retail are long gone, and for the majority of retailers, only those willing and able to...
BitPay, the global bitcoin payment processor provider, just got a little more consumer friendly. The bit of big news that came from the company this week (June 3) is that BitPay is taking its consumer-facing bitcoin wallet out of beta and opening it up to the general public....
“Consumers are hungry for a connection.” And as the many technology innovations across the payments and commerce space have shown, that connection is no longer necessarily through other human beings. In fact, with the advent of mobile devices, it’s now almost never through other human...
Venture capitalists from around the world pumped their money into the B2B segment this past week. But it’s not just the investors that are going global. The startups getting backed by these backers are themselves creating innovative tools to facilitate businesses’ international operations. The eCommerce...
For merchants with a bricks-and-mortar presence, promoting a store is more about location, eye-catching signage and the right marketing strategies. But in a busy online marketplace where millions of merchants are competing for those millions of buyers, there’s one key strategy that translates from physical...
Amazon’s 2015 so far is a tale of big announcements, marketplace rollouts and unique takes on commerce in the hyper-connected world that’s transforming into an Internet of Things phenomenon. Amazon may have to answer to investors about its lack of profits as it continues on its...
Bitcoin has a rich history — much richer than the past few years of FinTech stories on the market might allude to; stories that have nothing to do with the “bitcoin baron,” a pirate and the Silk Road, or even Mt. Gox. But to understand...
When it comes to mobile transactions, the results of Walmart’s first quarter earnings results — which were announced Tuesday (May 19) — show why the retail giant is investing more in mobile, but more importantly, why it’s investing more in mobile in China. Walmart has...
Omnichannel has come to hotels. I was traveling for client work this week and, as is usually the case, found myself in a lovely hotel, late at night and hungry. When I got to my room and started hunting around for the room service menu,...
