If 2015 was the year of the unicorn, 2016 may be the year the wings come off the horse. Here’s why private firms may stay private amid froth, and why investors may ultimately lose out.
Microsoft and Sony could be in for a bummer of a Christmas if a hacking collective makes good on its promise to shut down the companies’ respective Xbox One and PSN gaming networks. A group did so last year, and customers feeling twice burned might...
Who holds the power in the relationship between retailers and consumers? With fewer purchasing options, the answer might very well be the latter, but the combination of a panicked holiday shopping season and more online and offline deals that the average customer can research, some...
At first glance, the general consensus of the small business market today is that this customer base isn’t exactly lucrative for major financial institutions. It’s a sentiment that is often used to explain the retreat of large, traditional FIs from small business lending — they’re...
Cash flow isn’t entirely in the control of corporate money managers, according to a new survey from FinServ and consultancy group Hanse Orga. The company published the findings after surveying cash management professionals at a recent conference for corporate finance decision-makers, and according to Hanse...
For SMBs, getting credit can be a mystery, and lenders are not out to pull back the curtain on how they say yea or nay to loans. Biz2Credit is out to help business owners figure out what matters to lenders and how they can improve...
What’s in a brand name? Perhaps not much… unless it’s got the word “tobacco” in it, in which case that’s very, very bad in terms of public perception. Some of the biggest T-word companies in the world have found a way to (continue to) profit...
While the Wild West didn’t have anything like Amazon’s upcoming drone delivery program, the crisscrossing network of trains served as a primary means of transportation for both passengers and valuable cargo throughout the 1880s. However, strings of boxcars packed with goods and supplies traversing the...
On the surface, beacons appear to give consumers everything they want — targeted, personalized deals and product recommendations based on context that makes sense. However, the dearth of public support for beacon networks proves that something is being lost in translation when the concept of...
