It is about to get a little bit easier for consumers in the U.K. to spread the cost of big purchases out over several installments — so long as they paid with a Mastercard. As part of a new partnership with Verifone, Mastercard is launching the...
U.K. online grocery store Ocado has been at the vanguard of online retail since its founding in the spring 2000. Ocado has no stores, nor has it ever. It operates solely on a warehouse model. “Ocado’s central focus is technical innovation and efficiency — our...
Whether the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year is often a matter of taste. That the holidays are the busiest time of year for more merchants, on the other hand, is simply a matter of fact. And digital fluidity, thanks to mobile, is becoming a non-negotiable...
Techstars and Barclays are launching yet another accelerator program, this time in Cape Town, South Africa. And the application window for interested parties is now open. The partnership was announced the launch this week and will work with Africa’s FinTech entrepreneurs to take aim at discovering...
Intel, Delphi Automotive and Mobileye will be announcing a collaboration later today (Nov. 29) that aims to put them at the forefront of creating the supercomputing technology that will be necessary to get the first generation of self-driving cars up and running. The areas of...
Investment activity picked up from the mid-$140 million level seen over the past few weeks, to nearly double at $292.1 million for the latest period tracked. Though the absolute dollar value swelled, the trends remained largely the same, with FinTech dominating the fund flows at...
The company behind Shopify is launching another app dubbed Frenzy, which is centered on flash sales. According to a report in TechCrunch, Frenzy is an app that lets users put all the things they want from the flash sale in one central place and, when...
In the continuing movement of Volkswagen to embrace technology to advance autos — from electric vehicles to digital functionality — the automaker is in talks with Chinese companies, exploring joint venture opportunities, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Volkswagen is in talks with Didi Chuxing Technology to...
Commuting in some big U.S. cities may get a bit cheaper through the use of prepaid cards, thanks to Uber. Uber said on its website that riders can use commuter prepaid cards to pay for uberPOOL, its carpool ride service. The commuting service now accepts cards including...