A little under a year ago, a strange rumor began to make the rounds in the commerce ecosystem: Amazon was about to buy a TV home shopping network. Specifically, stories emerged that the eCommerce company was in acquisition talks with Evine Live, a cable home shopping...
Payment platform Marqeta has raised $250 million in a series E funding round, on a valuation of about $1.9 billion, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes solarisBank‘s tie-up with Alipay for payments in Europe. PagBrasil is working with Singaporean payment service provider APACPAY to grow payment options in Brazil, a decline in self-service payment terminals in...
Go-Pay, the digital payment unit of Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Go-Jek, plans to strengthen its position in the digital payments market as growth in Indonesia explodes. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
In the age of subscriptions for movies and even car rentals, consumer goods and eCommerce companies are tapping into recurring purchase models. Some companies offer refills of household cleaning products, for example, while others offer unique selections highlighting the culinary flavor of a region though...
Online marketplaces are taking a page out of the sharing economy playbook for clothing rentals: HURR Collective Co-Founder and CEO Victoria Prew watched the massive rise of the model from car sharing to house sharing and believed fashion needed to be disrupted. The company is...
With an expected Levi Strauss & Co. New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing on the horizon, the denim company’s initial public offering (IPO) is said to be oversubscribed by greater than 10 times, per unnamed sources. The company is expected to offer 37 million shares...
Very soon, eBay shoppers will be able to choose Google Pay as their payment method when checking out. The move comes as the latest expansion of its newly redesigned payments experience. In early 2018, eBay announced its plans to intermediate payments through a multi-year implementation...
For many companies, the accounts payable (AP) process is mired in paper, but technology, properly deployed, can cut down the paper chase, streamlining the journey between getting invoices and paying them. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
