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Inside The New JetBlue MasterCard Credit Card
March 14, 2016

Airline company JetBlue said that it is teaming up with Barclaycard and launching the latest slew of JetBlue MasterCard credit cards, tied to the firm’s TrueBlue loyalty program. The firms said in a press release that the JetBlue Card offers a limited-time, 10,000 bonus points...

Mobile Commerce
Instacart’s Business Model Shakeup
March 14, 2016

2010 — the days when the sharing economy was new and exciting and full of get-rich-quick promises for contract workers. Fast forward to 2016, and one of the most successful door-to-door delivery services is proving that mantra to be not so true. Get the Full...

Mobile Commerce
Xiaomi Banks On India’s eCommerce Boom For Boost
March 14, 2016

A slowing Chinese market and a booming eCommerce industry in India is making China’s largest smartphone maker, Xiaomi, shift its focus to sales in India. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

B2B Payments
Mobile B2B, With ONE (UP) App To Rule Them All
March 14, 2016

ONE UP has been carving out a mobile-centered niche in accounting software and just linked with PayStand to deliver real-time payments. CEO Francois Nadal explains how the long-term trend toward mobile and automated technology can help small firms get a better grip on their day-to-day...

Payment Methods
Amex’s Worries, Square’s Win And Gift Cards’ Woes
March 14, 2016

We know, it’s exciting and hard to concentrate. We can barely focus either with Innovation Project kicking off in a little under 48 hours. The best and brightest in payments and commerce will gather at Harvard. The opening on day one is nothing like you’ve...

Pinterest’s Buyable Pins Perform
March 14, 2016

The year 2015 was a big one for social commerce and for none of the Web’s many prominent digital hangout locations was this more true than Pinterest. While every social media portal has its own flavor, Pinterest is for people (usually women, if we’re in...

Bringing All of BigData.Gov Into the 21st Century
March 12, 2016

There’s a huge enterprise that is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of buying and selling, and of getting and spending in the U.S. No, this isn’t another complaint about Google. The giant enterprise in question is the U.S. government, BigData.Gov....

Retail
The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses
March 12, 2016

This week opened with Hector Barreto — the current Chair of the Latino Coalition and a former SBA Administrator from 2001-2008 – wondering what on Earth had happened to the economic message during this particular election season. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Regulation
Could Uber And Airbnb Have Helped Make President Bloomberg?
March 11, 2016

The 2016 election season is reaching that point where every story has, more or less, been written already. Almost every candidate has had one or several verbal gaffes scrutinized over the course of one or several news cycles, and viewers who might have found early...