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Loyalty & Rewards
Sweatcoin Pays People To Workout
May 06, 2016

There are a million and one fitness apps on the market today, and each of them does pretty much the same thing – monitor distances, record heart rates, recommend workouts, etc. Few, however, bribe users to get fit with real rewards from the retailers they love....

Alibaba’s Mobile Revenue Jumps 149 Percent
May 06, 2016

One year ago, when Alibaba announced its fiscal year 2015 results for its March quarter, it also named its new CEO, showing the direction the mobile-focused company would be headed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

NY Attorney General Says Breach Notifications Up 40 Percent
May 06, 2016

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday (May 4) that data breach alerts are on the rise significantly. 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...

China Regulators Cleaning Up eCommerce Reputation
May 06, 2016

It appears that not everyone is playing fair in eCommerce in China, and regulators in the country are out to do something about it. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Security & Fraud
Hundreds Of Millions Of Accounts Compromised In Major Email Hack
May 06, 2016

Usernames and passwords are being traded by the millions around Russia’s criminal underworld — evidence of one of the largest breaches in history. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Cyber Insurance’s $5B Premiums Prediction
May 06, 2016

Amid concerns that some sectors of tech are slowing, there is one subset that is likely to keep growing, and that is cyber insurance. One set of forecasts has the market surging ahead in the near term. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Kohl’s Integrates Apple Pay Into Rewards
May 06, 2016

In the world of retail payment technology, the line between who did something first and who did it second can get a little blurry. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Investments
Harvard-Linked VC Fund Faces Messy Breakup
May 06, 2016

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Mobile Commerce
Siri’s Creators Up The AI Game
May 06, 2016

Before Mark Zuckerberg stood on a stage and declared chatbots as the future of eCommerce (and Facebook their natural champion), and before Microsoft was experimenting with how quickly the denizens of Twitter could turn its own chatbot into a sputtering fount of racist retweets, there...