Tapingo, a mobile app company that enables mobile ordering, announced that is has secured a $22 million investment to help drives its local commerce mission to new audiences. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
With the EMV liability-shift deadline steadily approaching — and almost half of merchants still not even started on their point-of-sale (POS) changeover — payments service provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has cut a deal with POS device vendor ID TECH to simplify the process of...
Bitcoin’s blockchain technology may have found a new application: cutting the time and cost required by cross-border wire-transfer payments. Align Commerce has launched a public beta test of a system to let either businesses or individuals pay invoices globally, the company announced on Thursday (April...
Square, which got some its early start in San Francisco coffee shops, is trying to make life easier for similar food and beverage places where customers can keep a tab open, with a new feature called Open Tickets, the company announced in a blog post...
It’s not just retailers who are struggling with technical issues involved in the transition to EMV chip payment cards. Some card-issuing U.S. banks are said to be having trouble too — and cybercriminals are taking advantage by automating the process of turning stolen numbers from...
Winter storms blasted half a percentage point from U.S. economic growth in Q1 2015, making it the second year in a row that weather hammered the economy during the first quarter, according to a survey of economists by Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the...
The cost of indirect spend, the materials and services that businesses need in order to operate, can add up quickly. Some research estimates indirect spend accounts for up to 50 percent of a company’s purchases. In a joint survey by Supply Management and Expense Reduction...
Chinese officials have made efforts in recent months to boost economic growth in the nation, in part by introducing two loan interest rate cuts in the last four months. Despite these cuts, reports say, small businesses in the nation aren’t seeing any ease of burden...
Travel and expense management service providers are largely investing in the development of solutions that can be run through mobile applications, signaling a rise in the adoption of new technologies aimed at reducing the friction that exists in producing and processing an expense report. Get...
