Wholesale retail chain Sam’s Club is gearing up to launch its small business lending center, reports revealed last week. The Walmart-owned store said it is looking to strengthen its business relationships with smaller suppliers by rolling out a program to offer loans of up to...
Lending Club’s wildly successful initial public offering late last year, topping $1 billion, is largely credited for legitimizing the alternative finance market. But until now, Lending Club’s online peer-to-peer lending platform was only accessible to individual consumers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
U.K. alternative lender iwoca has seen significant growth this year, recently striking a deal with Alibaba to secure funding for small businesses across the U.K. that want to procure goods from Chinese suppliers. The company announced its latest business venture last Friday (April 24) that...
A little birdie told Apple Insider that iTunes might be adding a subscription service, which in turn might give weight to rumors that Apple streaming music is on the horizon. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
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Blame it on the promotional run-up to the December 2015 release of Star Wars Episode 7, but the subject of the mobile wallet “wars” seems back in the news. And like all wars – intergalactic or otherwise – there’s no shortage of opinions about who’ll...
China Telecom – the nation’s largest telecom operator – has officially teamed up with Alibaba to roll out low cost ($48) smartphones to citizens in rural China. The deal with China Telecom – and access to its 186 million subscribers – is part of a...
As PYMNTS noted last week, there’s no shortage of quantitative data on the Internet. It’s barely an exaggeration to state that whatever statistic one needs – no matter how obscure – someone has gathered it and posted it on the Web somewhere. The problem isn’t finding...
While Americans looking for sartorial advice might not think to themselves that a bunch of computer programmers in Northern California would be their go-to source for advice on what is fashion’s cutting edge, it seems Google is not content to just answer all of America’s...
