Sunstone Capital’s Max Niederhofer thinks Beacons are the next big thing in computers—and he isn’t afraid to put his venture capital dollars behind his beliefs. “We think this is a rapidly growing, potentially very large market with high margins, in which you can build...
Nearly one third of Americans are delinquent on debt, according to a new report out from the Urban Institute. An analysis of the credit files of nearly 7 million Americans revealed that 35 percent had a debt so far past due it had been referred...
In the words of Game of Thrones’ Ned Stark, “Brace yourself: mCommerce is coming.” Okay, so the lord of Winterfell might have said winter instead is coming, but the sentiment holds true. Mobile commerce is coming to the B2B world, and in some cases it’s...
Summer lull? What summer lull? Showing that initial public offerings wait for no one, this week is shaping up to be the busiest week in the U.S. initial public offering markets on Wall Street in over a decade. Twenty-five companies will be taking the IPO...
According to some researches, the enthusiasm consumers feel for furniture they built themselves may not be, strictly speaking, rational. It’s called the “Ikea Effect” and it holds that consumers start placing outsized value on things they built themselves, simply because they mixed their labor with it...
Forty eight percent of SMBs believe that consumers will be using mobile payments in stores in the next two years. Yet only 20 percent say they’ll be ready – and these are merchants that sell both online and in stores. So, how do SMBs resist...
The complicated nature of payer and provider payments has made health care one of the last, and largest, sectors where paper-based settlements still reign. However, efforts are underway to bring payment electronification to the healthcare sector. And that has competition among B2B players heating up.
Dutch consumers—and tourists visiting the Netherlands—can now pay with PayPal when they are out on the go a seized by a sudden desire to stop for pancakes. PayPal has partnered with Rabobank Bank-backed MyOrder to allow PayPal users to preorder and purchase items prior...
Big data is only useful data when there is a business vision to ground it. Sears General Manager of “Big Data” Ankur Gupta, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to discuss how data-driven retailers are using new tools and technologies to make omnichannel real...
