What are the ripple effects of investing in a mobile payment system when there are much bigger fish to fry?. The U.K. rail transportation system may soon find out. The rail network, now a number of franchises, is considering the rollout of a mobile phone...
In Europe, food delivery is a hot market and one that is seeing plenty of activity, as players try to realign business models to compete with the likes of Amazon and UberEATS. Tok Tok Tok just announced closure, and Just Eat is rumored to be...
As the G20 participants travel to Hangzhou, China, in fuel-guzzling passenger jets, their Chinese hosts are putting them to shame by pedaling around the city on eco-friendly bicycles. The Hangzhou Public Bicycle program is the largest in the world and is largely self-financing. Anyone can...
Google Play’s four top-grossing apps have seen a 10 percent increase in revenue from their game apps in Europe since the debut of Pokémon GO. A theory is that, once consumers use one mobile app, they are encouraged to try another. So, does that mean...
With the rise of Amazon Prime and eCommerce, more packages are being delivered to customers’ homes than ever before. It’s now possible to order everything online for in-home delivery from groceries to pet food to toilet paper, and consumers can usually get those items delivered...
Polly Portfolio, the wealth management technology platform for asset managers, is getting into the chatbot game, launching a chatbot for Facebook Messenger this week. The bot, dubbed Polly Chat, is free to use and enables users to have a conversation about financial news. The bot...
Line Corporation, a Japanese messaging-app operator, is gearing up for a billion dollar IPO next month in Tokyo and New York. The company, a rival to WhatsApp, has set its IPO offering at $26.50 to $31.50 (2,700 to 3,200 yen) per share. This would make it...
