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GrubMarket And The Streamlined Approach To Organic (And Digital) Grocery
September 21, 2015

Labels like “farm fresh” and “organic” used to be the exception and not the rule in food shopping and buying. Lately, they are starting to circulate more and more prominently and restaurants are as likely to boast the bona fides of their locally sourced cuisine...

A Long-Awaited Innovation In Payroll
September 21, 2015

When it comes to payroll, not much has happened in terms of industry innovation since the invention of direct deposit. Cachet Financial Services wants to change that, and has just introduced its Select Mobile Money program for payroll management. That means businesses and employees can...

Weak Security, Facetiming With Banks And mPayments In Agriculture
September 21, 2015

In a recent interview with World Finance, treasury software firm BELLIN’s Martin Bellin said treasury managers spend too much time collecting data. But it’s not what you think — data, he said, is crucial to more adequate risk and money management. But, citing previous research...

Controversial
Will Ad Blockers Drive Mobile Commerce Innovation?
September 21, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css_animation=””] Could the rise of mobile ad blockers be the “killer app” that mobile commerce has been looking for all of these years?  Ad blockers got the Internet buzzing last week, mostly as the result of Apple’s decision to include...

Hmmm
Kardashians Go Mobile (Get Hacked Immediately)
September 19, 2015

The Mona Lisa. The Taj Mahal. The Great Wall of China. All are wonders that far exceed their simplest descriptions — a painting, a building and an extreme attempt at border control. But they are so much more than that, because there is something about...

No Rate Hike: A Short-Term Boon for eCommerce. Maybe.
September 18, 2015

“Will they or won’t they” – that question has been answered by the Federal Reserve. For now at least. The Fed said Thursday that interest rates are going to stay put, at least in the very near term. That adds at least some more time...

Visa’s EMV Chip Card Milestone
September 18, 2015

Just weeks away from the Oct. 1 deadline for the EMV liability shift, new data showing progress in the marketplace may actually mark the beginning of significant growth in chip-card adoption in the U.S.

Logistics And Bitcoin: A Match Made For Global Trade?
September 18, 2015

Last week, the Managing Director of the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund Rimas Kapeskas published a blog post on Longitudes, the official UPS blog, that really got the logistics industry talking. Kapeskas asked, “Does Global Trade Need A Global Currency?” And it started a conversation about...

B2B Payments
B2B Investment Tracker, Sept. 11–18
September 18, 2015

A healthy $288 million funneled into B2B companies from venture capitalists this past week, with nearly all activity coming from the U.S. and India. The big winner was the treasury management space, but multimillion dollar deals also landed at startups in the B2B eCommerce, Big...