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US B2B eCommerce To Hit $1.13T In 2020
April 06, 2015

B2B eCommerce in the U.S. will top $1.1 trillion in revenue by 2020, making it more than 12 percent of all U.S. B2B sales, according to a new report by Forrester Research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Walmart: EMV Signatures Are Worthless
April 06, 2015

Walmart’s top payments executive told a conference last week that letting banks issue EMV credit cards without PINs makes a mockery of EMV security, CNN Money reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Will Payments Come Preloaded With Your Next PC?
April 06, 2015

A contactless payments reader in every PC? That’s not as far-fetched as it sounds, as chipmakers build NFC capabilities into more and more chips — and last week Broadcom announced a new microcontroller with NFC inside that’s specifically designed with PCs in mind, according to...

The Latest Commerce Trend – Prommerce
April 04, 2015

The PYMNTS staff – and most of our readers (we assume) – are well past the point in life where the most important question we face in April is whether or not someone will ask us to the prom – and/or agree to go to...

IBM, Apple Unleash New Enterprise Apps
April 03, 2015

Since Apple and IBM first struck up a partnership last December, the two have released a second group of mobile apps aimed at enterprises. The companies revealed several new mobile applications for the health care industry as part of a broader goal to boost iPhone...

B2B Payments
B2B Investment Tracker, March 27 – April 3
April 03, 2015

Small business lending is on the rise, according to a report released by Thomson Reuters and PayNet. It’s good news, but a closer look of the current state of SME financing by TradeUp revealed that young businesses are still not able to access working capital...

Amazon Tests The Waters For Seller Invoicing
April 03, 2015

Amazon is reportedly inquiring its business customers as to how they would like to manage their orders and invoicing over the platform, but it is unclear what the eCommerce giant has in mind for the use of that insight. Reports released Thursday (April 2) revealed...

Samsung Business Takes B2B Technology To New Heights
April 03, 2015

Apple may have introduced biometric authentication to the masses when it added TouchID fingerprint recognition to the iPhone 5s, but Samsung is poised to bring even more advanced biometric technology to mobile devices. This week, the company signed an exclusive licensing agreement with SRI International,...

Where First Data Will Be Five Years From Now
April 03, 2015

Just a few weeks ago, top payments industry players gathered at Harvard for Innovation Project 2015. Among the attendees, and panelist group for the “From Payments To Commerce” discussion, was Stephen Stout, Global Head of Strategy at First Data Corporation. Just post the exciting session,...