A new report from Forrester Research, “U.S. Mobile Phone And Tablet Commerce Forecast, 2015 to 2020,” predicted mobile commerce transactions will exceed $115 billion in 2015 and skyrocket to $142 billion next year. “We project that mobile phones will generate 15 percent of eCommerce sales...
Innovators are changing the way B2B business is done day to day, moment by moment. This week, PYMNTS decided to offer a glimpse into how startups and their venture capitalist supporters are making daily tasks easier for the industry. Let’s take, for example, a corporate...
There’s a very good reason that passwords are dying and why many think we should be ready to let them go. But what does the post-password reality look like? Today, that answer is mostly to be found in the marriage of two security ideas: bio-authentication via...
Small and mid-sized business owners must grapple with getting employees paid on time, making sure benefits are in place, and navigating sometimes Byzantine tax laws. Paychex’s Andy Childs explains how outsourcing can be a boon to the boss.
Operating an artisanal retail business: as easy as riding a unicycle backwards and blindfolded atop the edge of a razor blade. That’s the challenge of scaling custom-made merchandise in a way that creates magic for consumers and profits for retailers. Custom furniture startup Joybird Co-founders...
As shopping malls increasingly take on the appearance of haunted houses — abandoned and covered in cobwebs — it’s spooky, then, that one of the best opportunities for physical retailers to flourish comes at Halloween, when they can open their creaky doors to trick-or-treaters.
In retail it is always more or less raining data. With hundreds of millions of consumers, millions of stores, hundreds of thousands of miles of infrastructure and an ever-accelerating proliferation of products to make $4 trillion worth of buying and selling that happens each year...
When the U.K. held its general elections earlier this year, much of the political debate was zeroed in on “cutting the red tape” for small businesses and their ability to manage cash flow. Both Prime Minister David Cameron and then-rival Ed Miliband proposed ways to...
For corporate accountants, automation can be a polarizing topic. On one side, proponents say automation speeds up accounting and reduces the rate of error, leading to faster payments. On the other side, critics argue that automation tools are costly to implement and threaten B2B sales...
