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Revel Systems Raises $13.5M For International Expansion
August 19, 2015

Revel Systems, an iPad point-of-sale provider, announced yesterday (Aug. 18) that it has secured a major investment to help the company expand on its international ambitions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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Orbitz For Business VP Sees Value In Visa Partnership
August 19, 2015

Orbitz for Business, the Orbitz corporate travel arm, has linked with Visa to bring travel booking and payments to mid-sized businesses. Here’s what Charles Bacharach, SVP at Orbitz for Business, had to say about making business travel easier.

Vending Machines About To Get A Whole Lot Smarter
August 19, 2015

N&W, the automated retailer, is looking to launch 5,000 “smart vending machines” across the U.S. next year, powered by Intel technology. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Messaging App Kik Joins The Unicorn Club
August 19, 2015

Ontario-based messaging app Kik has just crossed the threshold into unicorn territory, as its latest $50 million funding round has officially knocked its value to $1 billion. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Ashley Madison Hack Info Now Available On The Web
August 19, 2015

Well, in some sense, you have to hand it to the hackers that breached online cheating website Ashley Madison last month for being good to their word. They warned the site’s parent company, Avid Life Media, that if they didn’t shut down the Web’s answer...

Web.com Reporting A Potential Breach
August 19, 2015

The Florida-based Web.com Group is reporting a breach in a computer system that may have set free about 93,000 customers’ credit card data. The firm currently has a customer list of about 3.3 million. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Payments For The Platform Economy
August 19, 2015

What does it take to make it to No. 62 on Inc.’s ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America? Do what WePay did, by taking on two of the hardest things in payments – make it invisible and take on the risk. Rich...

Back-To-School Shopping Changes Its Schedule
August 19, 2015

While back-to-school shopping might have at one time been a one-and-done annual event, that’s not the case anymore. Sarah Quinlan, Senior Vice President of Market Insights at MasterCard, talks about how the times for that shopping category are a-changing in the same way that your...

Target’s Digitally Focused Model Sparks Sales Growth
August 19, 2015

Both Target and Walmart’s earnings results showed the retail giants are focused on driving up sales by focusing on digital, but, as the past few quarters have shown, one retailer seems to better at threading the digital needle. Get the Full Story Complete the form...