Airbnb may have $400 million or so in lost bookings in London to look forward to in 2017, thanks to new regulatory enforcement of the 90-night limit for hosts. That figure draws on data from AllTheRooms, an accommodation search engine, and analysis by the Financial Times. That...
Eurozone stocks got good news on the first day of trading in 2017, which sent their shares up to a level not seen in longer than a year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
The CFPB is casting a critical eye on overdraft fees charged by banks — despite facing an uncertain future in the Trump administration. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
The “Facebook-Google duopoly” has crashed funding for advertising technology start-ups to five-year lows, according to reports emerging this morning. All in all, there were 343 adtech venture deals in 2016 — a 17 percent drop compared with the 414 deals made in 2015. The value of...
It’s just a few days into 2017, and already it looks to be the year of the bots. 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...
There’s new news in the ongoing battle between bitcoin and ether exchange and platform startup Coinbase and the IRS. The request for Jeffrey Berns’ Coinbase user records has been nullified by the IRS, while the request for the other millions of accounts still remains. Get...
Sometime in the coming month, Samsung users will have some definite answers as to the cause of last year’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone fires. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Mergers, acquisitions and venture funding of startups, especially in the technology sector, are increasingly becoming an important tool for legacy U.S. corporations across sectors as a way to keep up with the pace of production and technology and to draw in more tech-savvy consumers. Get...
A recent search warrant in a murder case served to Amazon has IoT advocates worried about the future of privacy in the growing tech space. Investigators in Bentonville, Ark., have requested data from an Amazon Echo device present at the scene of a murder committed...