Expanding upon its in-app commerce efforts, Instagram has quietly introduced a native payments feature. With the new functionality, users can register a credit or debit card and make payments within the social media platform after setting up a security PIN, TechCrunch reported. A spokesperson for...
Customer service matters in all walks of business, to consumers and businesses alike, but especially so in payments. Troubleshooting issues when they arise, or anticipating them before they happen, can make all the difference in ensuring transactions and other business processes flow smoothly and voluminously....
Western Union, the global payments services company, announced news on Monday (April 30) that it has added WeChat Pay to its WU GlobalPay for Students products via an alliance with Geoswift, a payment company specializing in payment solutions in and out of China. In a...
Knotel co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva has had a full life in tech. Apart from his current venture, Sarva is also the co-founder of Halo Neuroscience, Peek and Virgin Mobile USA – and those are just his better-known ventures. He founded his first firm when he was still a...
Equifax, the credit scoring company at the center of a data breach that exposed the personal information of 145.5 million consumers, announced news on Tuesday (April 24) of the launch of a blended version of its Commercial Insight Delinquency Score, which predicts the likelihood that...
Facebook is gearing up to make its own artificial intelligence chips, with the company looking to hire chip designers. According to a report in Financial Times, Facebook has placed ads for chip designers that can work on projects focused on AI, Oculus, the company’s virtual...
Traditional lodging doesn’t always fit the bill for business travelers. After a long day of client meetings or conference sessions, business travelers might want to unwind in an Airbnb that feels like home instead of a staid chain hotel room. That option is not always...
“Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!” Anyone old enough to have gone to the movies by themselves during the 1990s knows that phrase – and the improbably cheery “man” who spoke those words. That man, of course, was Mr. Moviefone – and a generation of film...
On Monday (April 9), American Express unveiled a new global brand platform and marketing campaign dubbed “Powerful Backing: Don’t Do Business / Don’t Live Life Without It.” In a press release, the payments company said the campaign is aimed at reflecting how people live and work...