After all the excitement and pageantry that was Apple’s Big Event in San Francisco last week, the team at Apple is now back at work. This week iOS 9 dropped — and with a good deal more peace in the valley than the introduction of iOS...
Two years ago, PayPal acquired Braintree, yesterday it announced that Braintree is poised to cross $50B in payments volume with 154M customer accounts on file. MPD CEO Karen Webster caught up with Braintree CEO Bill Ready for a discussion in which he looked back on...
Phones have changed a lot in the last 10 years. No, not those phones – headphones. And specifically the type often referred to in the following statement: “Hey check out my new headphones – I got a totally awesome 50 percent off deal and only paid...
We all know the story of David and Goliath — in fact everyone knows it so well it’s the go-to metaphor for any and all instances of a little guy, taking on a much bigger guy and winning. And it’s a good story for hopeful...
Hot off the presses this week were the newest retail sales figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. At first glance the hard numbers might not have seemed all that remarkable, as the sales numbers moved modestly but not shockingly. Some of that was predicated on...
Social media is the way to reach hip, young consumers, right? Maybe…but for retailers looking to actually gain business from them, it also creates the risk of coming across like an uncool dad.
Chief Financial Officers don’t have it easy in today’s market conditions. With businesses reaching out to partners globally, and expanding across national borders, CFOs can often be tasked not only with ensuring proper cash flow management of a corporation, but also with the plethora of...
Some FinServ businesses offer pricing and quote services for their B2B clients. Others provide payments services to B2B firms. For configure, price and quote service provider SteelBrick, it simply makes sense to offer both. That is, after all, what the customer wants. SteelBrick Chief Executive...
In the global payments conversation, retailers tend to get short shrift. A survey from ACI Worldwide and Ovum gave retailers around the world their chance to be heard…and what they said ought to upend the status quo in payments.
