If you believe the old adage that half of all ad dollars are wasted, retailers just don’t know which half, then close to $250B is being wasted on advertising. In August’s Omnicommerce Tracker™, Mike Harkey, Foursquare VP talks about how the granddaddy of check-ins is...
Tokyo has a reputation for not only being the wealthiest city in the world, but also having one of the world’s largest metropolitan economies. But is that enough to gain it FinTech glory? In this week’s Tech Center Roundup, we take a look at whether...
Twitter’s promoted stickers are the latest attempt by the social network to better appeal to merchants and advertisers.
As SWIFT continues to promote the adoption of the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard across financial institutions, the company said it is zeroing in on the potential for ISO 20022 harmonization in the high-value payments space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
The worries over valuations tied to unicorns, by now universally defined as the tech firms with implied valuations above $1 billion, have ebbed and flowed, depending on what time of the quarter or even the day it might be. Get the Full Story Complete the...
TSYS, the payment processing company, said on Thursday (Aug. 18) it has extended its payments agreement with Swisscard AECS. Under the extended agreement, TSYS will continue to process the company’s consumer credit card and commercial card portfolio on the TS2 platform. TSYS will also provide...
Marketing is an expensive but essential part of any business strategy, and often one with little bang for the buck. Also, determining how effective a firm’s PR is requires even more investment in systems that can monitor and analyze the effect of any marketing policy....
The best that could have been said about the Q2 results so far, as tracked across retail, is that they are somewhat less disastrous than they were in Q1. This isn’t to say there has been a tremendous amount of positive growth so much as losses...
It was a good time for athleisure on social media according to the newest data out from TotalSocial (Engagement Labs). The newest edition of the ranking sees Adidas, Nike, Reebok, Under Armour and Puma all as top ten finishers for the converting social interruption to...
