[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Big data is the wave of the future – and is big business. International Data Corporation projects that the market for advanced and predictive analytics (APA) software will grow from $2.2B in 2013 to over $3.4B in 2018 – a compound annual...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]It’s hard to imagine what exactly it was about tulips that drove the sort of mania where a single prime bulb was worth 10 times the annual salary of a skilled craftsmen. It’s equally hard to get into the mindset of...
After a tough start to the week, the second day story on the U.S. stock market initially seemed to be one about improvement. While the Chinese market remains something closely resembling turmoil, the U.S. market at one point in the day jumped about 400 points...
Though this week was a quiet one in FinTech investments, with only few $100M+ deals – VCs seem to have found a new favorite place to invest - bringing the supply chain into the digital age.
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It has been a good year to be a cybersecurity entrepreneur — and business is booming since cybercriminals have had a busy and productive year and a half. But if there can be an upside to criminal activity, it has...
Fund flows perked up quite a bit last week, with two mammoth announcements outside the U.S. And the CEO of one venture that's making mammoth differences for lots of new ventures, OneVest, raised some dough of their own and tells PYMNTS there's more to crowdfunding...
The third week in July showed investment activity wilting a bit (was it the heat?) with only a few $100M deals. (My, aren’t we spoiled...) Unless you’re Ethoca – that managed to snag $45M to speed fraud detection and prevention. PYMNTS talked to Ethoca’s CEO...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Without trust, there can be no commerce. All deals – no matter how complex or simple – have at their center two parties that have to believe in each other: the buyer and the seller. The buyer has to believe the...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css_animation=””]Like most modern wonders, the magic of automatic billing is something that is easy to overlook – probably because no one really likes thinking about paying bills as there are many, many more interesting ways to spend money. Which is...
