This month in 1998, parents across the U.S. were fighting in toy stores over Furbies to give to their children as holiday gifts. It was the most popular holiday gift of the year, commanding ridiculous resale retail prices on eBay as the supply of the...
McAfee Labs recently published its 2018 Threats Predictions report, and after a year of high-profile cyberattacks and data breaches, analysts say the threat won’t let up in the new year. A rising challenge for the enterprise is the fact that cyberattackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated...
FinTech innovators are finally paying attention to the B2B sphere, and much of that focus has landed on the cross-border payments space — a notoriously clunky, expensive and opaque burden for many business payers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
International payments startup Airwallex is taking steps to link its corporate customers to the U.K.’s Faster Payments scheme. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, Amazon announced a bevy of new machine learning features for its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), demonstrating an initiative to get ahead in the great artificial intelligence (AI) race. In other words: Silicon Valley...
In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the buying behaviors of consumers in retail stores. At the time, Applebaum was the director of Marketing Research at the Stop & Shop supermarket chain based in Boston. The research he presented...
In a world where attacks on computers are nearly de rigueur at this point, it isn’t much of a surprise that U.S. banks have begun quietly doomsday-prepping for a successful apocalyptic attack on their computers by hackers. The goal is to head off a run...
What began as a way to give micro-merchants a path to digital is now a superhighway for enabling a variety of important retail business functions for SMBs. The latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker™ charts how developers are embedding inventory tracking, ordering recommendations and more into mPOS...
B2B payments are still mired in paper checks, but it needn’t be so. Dean M. Leavitt, CEO and founder of Boost Payment Solutions, says education is key in getting suppliers to embrace more efficient payments solutions, specifically commercial cards. One acronym, he says, can guide the way. PARS:...