Merchant Innovation

Amazon To Buy Some RadioShack Locations?
February 03, 2015

In an attempt to shore up its emerging brick-and-mortar business, Amazon.com Inc. is in talks about acquiring some RadioShack Corp. locations after the electronics chain files for bankruptcy, two people with knowledge of the matter said according to Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Payments Innovation Rankings Soon To Be Unveiled
February 02, 2015

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Study: Consumers Slow to Get Into Mobile Payments
February 02, 2015

Whether it’s through Apple Pay, Softcard, or Google Wallet, mobile payments are jockeying for position in the marketplace with retailers, but according to one survey, it may be putting the cart before the horse, as consumers have been slow to truly embrace mobile payments in...

Is The Integrated POS System The Future Of Financial Services
February 02, 2015

There’s an old joke, told in many forms where one person asks for directions to a famous place, followed by the wrong type of direction. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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To Pay At McDonalds, All You Need Is Love
February 02, 2015

Hungry?  Have a hole in your stomach that only two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun can fill? In short, do you need a Big Mac? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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PayPal And Dunnhumby Pour $1.2M Into Pulsate
February 02, 2015

PayPal and consumer science company Dunnhumby have partnered up to drop $1.2 million in funding into Pulsate.  Pulsate’s platform targets ad content based on a user’s location and preferences. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Channeling Retail’s Inner Data Scientists
February 02, 2015

The quickest way to describe the difference between cooking and baking is as follows – cooking is in art, but baking is all science. Chefs known for instinctively adjusting their recipes and never making the same meal twice run five star Michelin restaurants. Bakers known...

Google Now Integrated With Instacart, Lyft And 40 Other New Third-Party Aps
February 02, 2015

Google Now is the search giant’s newest attempt to make the smart phone smarter.  The intelligence layer running within the Google mobile app saves users the trouble of looking for desired apps themselves. Instead, Google Now searches for you and surfaces with the right app...

Tapping Into The Two Screen Consumer
January 31, 2015

The list of things in the world that one can reasonably expect to pay $9 million dollars a minute for is short, and if we had to guess, we’d say that many of those things are those that can only be paid for using bitcoin...