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Facebook Sued For Private Message Practices
January 02, 2014

Facebook is being sued by an Arkansas lawyer and political blogger Matt Campbell for allegedly using data from private messages to improve the effectiveness of its advertising, Business Insider reported on January 2. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Apple’s Christmas Surprise, 2013’s Top Mobile Retailer And The App That Monetizes Consumer Behavior
January 02, 2014

Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which companies grabbed the most headlines – for better or for worse – this week, and...

Looking Ahead At The Close Of 2013
December 30, 2013

To paraphrase the immortal words of Yogi Berra, predictions are really hard, especially when they’re about the future. That’s why we’ve made it our annual tradition at PYMNTS.com to round up a few predictions across a range of topics that others have gone on record...

Eko Brings No-Fuss Mobile, Financial Inclusion To India
December 30, 2013

30 December 2013 Venture partner at Menlo Ventures Karl Mehta and serial entrepreneur Carol Realini are currently crowdsourcing success stories for their new book “Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid.” Originally profiled in a November 21 article for PYMNTS.com, the book aims to...

The Target Industry Aftershock
December 29, 2013

“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws,” ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are.  Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Cybersecurity
PYMNTS Prophecies: Eight 2013 Predictions Reviewed
December 27, 2013

Despite the rise of big data, the cloud and the countless other electronic innovations looking to tap into our collective brainpower, predictions remained as difficult to get right as ever in 2013. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Alternative Credit
Payments Execs Forecast Trends For Year Ahead
December 26, 2013

As the last days of 2013 come to a close, payments firms across the country are busy reflecting on the experience they’ve gained to best position their strategies for the future while avoiding the issues that have dogged them in the past. Get the Full...

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Daily Deals, Email Named Biggest Drivers Of Impulse Spending
December 26, 2013

Released on December 19, a new study from Ryan Partnership has taken an in-depth look at 16 digital shopping tools to assess which is having the biggest impact on consumer shopping behavior and customer satisfaction heading into 2014. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Cross-border Payments
‘Square Of Africa’ Recounts Struggles On Eve Of Expansion
December 23, 2013

Known colloquially as “the Square of Africa,” it’s safe to say that mobile payments processor Kopo Kopo had some hefty expectations to live up to when it entered the East African market in 2010. However, recent developments suggest the long quiet company may be finally...