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Mobile Commerce
Adobe Is The Newest Claimant To Beacon’s In-Store Crown
March 28, 2016

Adobe is a household name to people in dozens of industries. Not only has its photo-processing software managed to endure the age of digital piracy, but a large part of Web and mobile entertainment options runs off its Flash product. In short, few can claim...

Merchant Innovation
Why Chocolate Melts eCom’s Heart
March 28, 2016

Though brick-and-mortar retailers might disagree, eCommerce is supposed to make things simpler. Without the need to pay as much in overhead or labor, profits should soar, right? Well, if the online merchant in question is trying to make billions off of chocolate products, it might...

Loyalty & Rewards
First Oculus VR Set Gets Hand-Delivered By Founder
March 28, 2016

Sometimes, the hype surrounding the release of an anticipated product can work against sales. If the item in question works as intended but not quite as customers expected over the long wait for its release, it only takes one troll to start an Internet firestorm. Get...

Walmart’s Mobile App Push To Compete Abroad
March 28, 2016

As regional economies grow more dependent on the system of global trade, it follows that consumers in one country might develop a taste for products that aren’t available in the quality or quantity they want in their native land. Fortunately for them, Walmart wants to...

Why Self-Checkout Rules In Retail
March 28, 2016

New research from Technavio shows that the global self-checkout terminal market’s revenues are expected to hit $2.19 billion by the year 2019. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Fintech Investments
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Closes $1.3B VC Fund
March 28, 2016

In the latest sign that Silicon Valley still can attract attention, and funding, even amid the continued worries about startups, tech valuations and unicorns, Peter Thiel and his colleagues have scooped up a tidy $1.3 billion to close Founders Fund VI. Get the Full Story...

B2B Payments
Late Payment Patterns, Procurement Via Facebook And The Paper Check Addiction
March 28, 2016

Late payments are a headache for suppliers, but the stats that surfaced this week suggest that the cost benefits of delaying payments are too good to pass up for corporate buyers — that or buyers themselves are struggling to pay their bills on time even if...

When CFOs’ Worries Are FinServ’s Worries, Too
March 28, 2016

From China’s slowing economic growth, to the strengthening U.S. dollar, to a host of other geopolitical phenomena impacting the global economy, corporate CFOs have a lot to keep their eyes on. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Microsoft Adds More Blockchains To Azure Service
March 28, 2016

The list of participating partners for Microsoft’s cloud-based blockchain platform that runs on Azure has grown with new partners announced to support the initiative, reports said on Thursday (March 24). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...