OpenBazaar bills itself as a new way to transact online, through decentralized markets and with cryptocurrencies. At the root of the global push of OpenBazaar is a business model with no restrictions (or fees), as parent company OB1 CEO Brian Hoffman tells PYMNTS, aiming to...
It’s a tough time to be a small pharmacy, with national chains like CVS and Walgreens dominating two-thirds of the prescription drug market in the U.S. To stand out from their competition, says Brian Zone, owner and founder of Long Island Apothecary, independent pharmacies must...
In one week, the FIFA World Cup Men’s Soccer competition will kick off in Russia. For most of the world that is big news. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
For at least two generations, Walmart has stood for more than just retail. The chain, born in Arkansas, has long served as a cultural, economic and even political signifier — telling others that one shopped at Walmart, or disliked its corporate policies, opened up a host...
Helping broaden the reach of Tencent’s mobile payments and mini program services, Tencent has unveiled a collaboration with Walmart China. With the relationship, Walmart will also be to expand digitally in the country, technode reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the payments and commerce news of the day. Today there are stories about the latest trends in Apple‘s iPhone manufacturing, Google’s views about AI, and why Walmart likes wine. There is a new retail...
After a shutdown of ZTE‘s operations that has lasted almost two months, the U.S. and China have come to a deal to get the Chinese telecommunications company back up and running. The U.S. had blocked exports to the company after it broke terms of a...
Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash. After problems with an information technology migration locked thousands of clients out of accounts at the U.K.’s TSB, for example, the bank saw...
Since the dawn of the age of computers, human beings have wondered what will happen when the machines eventually learn how to “think” like humans do. The consensus among science fiction writers is “nothing good.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
