TomTom, a Dutch navigation and mapping company, has sold its telematics unit to Bridgestone Europe for €910 million ($1,033 billion). Telematics is a service that helps companies manage fleets in real time, and lets them know the location of each vehicle along with a look...
CARDFREE, a mobile payment app, has made its order-ahead interface available to merchants to develop through the CARDFREE mobile development kit, according to a press release from the company. The development kit allows for in-app payments and uses credit cards and mobile wallet apps. Based in San...
The verdict is in. Black Friday was a boon for online retail. Nostalgia still drove consumers to physical stores to snag and brag about great deals and to get into the holiday swing of things that only nicely decorated malls – complete with holiday music,...
Snapchat, according to recent reports, is having cash flow troubles. The app that got famous for its disappearing messages is looking like it will either need to raise a some capital by sometime in 2019 or run the risk of going broke, according to a note by MoffettNathanson....
The tremendous push toward marketplaces and commerce platforms over the last several years really comes down to capturing a single moment in the consumer’s journey, said Mark Bishopp, CEO of payment platform Amaryllis, during this week’s edition of Topic TBD with Karen Webster. That is, the moment a consumer...
Grubhub’s announcement last week, that it will acquire mobile ordering and payments platform LevelUp, is the most recent reminder that software and technology is eating the restaurant vertical, no pun intended. The market reaction to the news underscored that view: Grubhub’s stock price surged by a staggering 25 percent, analysts said, on the...
Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems. And Winnie’s co-founders were something of a unique dynamic duo in Silicon Valley terms. Like many of their fellows, they were young, entrepreneurial...
Food ordering and delivery have come a long way since reliance on the Yellow Pages and those paper menus stuck into door frames — no one needs to be told that. But a fledgling digital service aims to take that ordering experience one step further,...
National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. For those us who need a few days to let go of important holidays — warm emotions can take time to fade — perhaps a trip down memory lane will prove helpful, along with a...
