Mark Cuban is a very successful investor with billions of dollars to show for smart picks. His rather "eclectic" taste for startups makes it hard to judge the objective value of his seal of approval. But for tiny B2B procurement start-up Procurify, Cuban's recent high...
Every year $21 billion goes up in smoke due to fraud based on identity theft. miiCard thinks it has a solution that could cut that as much as 80% per year. PYMNTS caught up with Founder and CEO James Varga about how miiCard’s new virtual...
It’s one thing to note that a merchant’s payment-data system has been breached, but the reality of what that means really hits home when consumers start saying they’ve been affected. And new Pew Research Center survey data show a significant rise in the percentage of...
Do you know … How many billions of dollars will be spent on Easter this year? How many consumers use prepaid cards for retail shopping? Or how much would you have to spend to buy a Google Glass on April 15th? If not, keep up...
We hate mobile, we love mobile. Despite internal optimism about completing "another great quarter" Google's performance in Q1 2014 came in below analyst expectations. The culprit? Mobile. Cost per click nosedived because more people use Google on mobile devices. The underperformance immediately caused a 5%...
The news about who’s doing what in the dynamic restaurant ordering/mobile apps space is dizzying – and for two players of late who just went public, filled with big $$$. So, we’ve created a little slide show to show you who’s doing what, and what...
“Why don’t we just leapfrog over EMV and go right to mobile?” That’s just one of the questions that MPD CEO Karen Webster posed to MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer Ed McLaughlin in Part Three of this Four Part Mobile Insiders Series. Don’t you want...
Since its foundation, Ariba has set out to transform the way companies of all sizes, industries, and geographies buy and sell goods and manage cash by providing e-payment services. To that end, Ariba built the world’s largest B2B network of buyers and sellers and provided,...
When the BlackBerry was first introduced as a mobile device in 2002, it was immediately made to be the unofficial requirement for everyone within the business industry. By 2007, the average stock price for the company was around $150. By 2008, iPhone and Android were...
