Can a gift-card exchange be worth a billion dollars? That seems to be the case with Raise, which just pulled in another $56 million, barely two months after an $18 million round in November. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
On-demand commerce startup Button, which just launched in October, has now pulled in $12 million to build out its network of on-demand services and its recommendation capabilities, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Mobile commerce’s share will climb to 40 percent of all e-commerce transactions worldwide in 2015, and mobile will also push cross-device sales above its current 15-to-20-percent range, according to a new report from e-commerce marketing tech vendor Criteo. And while no one is about to...
On Monday (Jan. 19), the British Retail Consortium reported that over $910 million was stolen from retail outlets in 2014 — an 18 percent increase from the year prior. This is despite the fact that the volume of actual offenses decreased by 4 percent, indicating that criminals...
Twentieth century history of America likes to point to the baby boomers as the transforming generation. But according to Forbes contributor Micah Solomon, the next big generation is the one that follows far behind the boomers: the millennials. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Facing falling stock prices and forecasting lower than expected revenue in 2015, mobile banking firm Monitise has announced that it will be putting itself up for sale. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Even though the official changeover to EMV payment systems is scheduled for Oct. 1, some analysts familiar with the process say that many businesses will still not be EMV ready by the target date, and may take “many years” for the U.S. to be fully converted...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos may want to stick with his day job running the e-Commerce giant, since his fallback job as a diaper salesman appears to not be as reliable as he was hoping for. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Mobile banking is relatively new to the financial scene, and limited to just developed countries with the infrastructure to safely handle transactions, but Bill Gates thinks that in the next 15 years, 2 billion people worldwide who don’t own banking accounts today will be making...