Hey retailers, does your heart belong to mobile? It better. It’s going to be a $20 billion holiday this year (not to mention the roughly $703 million spent by pet owners last Valentine’s Day). And at least 17 percent of that is estimated be done...
With all the growth issues Twitter is facing, perhaps it shouldn’t be so much of a shock that no more details about what’s going on with its payments plans were mentioned during the company’s fourth quarter earnings. After all, from the results released yesterday (Feb....
Global payments is seeing blurred lines between parties – whether B2B or B2C or P2P. But one audience that may be quietly making inroads into a veritable sea change in the way we live and work globally may also herald a sea change in payments...
There’s a loophole in Netflix that may soon be closed. Fortune reported Monday (Feb. 8) that moviegoers (that is, home-based moviegoers) have been using a “common trick” that lets them grab onto the Netflix catalog as it is available in other countries. [bctt tweet=”There’s a...
China’s culture and history stretches back, quite literally, thousands of years. However, one tradition central to the Chinese New Year is getting a digital update for the 2016 celebrations. South China Morning Post reported that some of the country’s largest eCommerce retailers, along with the...
This Sunday (Feb. 7) marks the 50th Super Bowl since the rival American Football League and National Football League agreed to a playoff championship game in the winter of early 1967. As the resultant NFL has grown into one of the most popular professional sporting...
PayPal has a new tool in its arsenal to help businesses. The company is unveiling a new portal aimed at merchants as part of its PayPal Tools offering. In an interview with MPD CEO Karen Webster, Lisa O’Malley, Sr. Director Global Product Management – Merchant...
Noting that in the United States as many as one in four households is either unbanked or underbanked, Fifth Third said Wednesday (Feb. 3) that it is launching Express Banking specifically to target those populations through mobile options. The service itself traces its genesis back...
In the end, Yahoo may be remembered for what it might have been, but for the missteps. The latest news that the company is pursuing “strategic alternatives” for its core Internet business, while also sawing away 15 percent of its workforce, hints at last resorts....
