Videogame retailer GameStop is fighting back against online shopping with beacons that stream game content directly to customers’ smartphones when they’re in a store, according to The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Customers really do appreciate free Wi-Fi, it seems. A new study by IHL Group found that 28 percent of retailers who added in-store Wi-Fi said they got a boost in customer loyalty. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Beacon vendor ShopX is planning to give away a million beacons to U.S. retailers in hopes of grabbing a bigger share of the market for its software-as-a-service management platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
Even though Discover’s payments volume rose and its loan portfolio grew by 6.4 percent, the card issuer’s net income plummeted 33 percent for the last three months of 2014. The biggest contributor to the plunge: a change to Discover’s rewards program that makes it easier...
It’s no secret that finding the right way to quickly and effectively outsmart fraudsters is a high-priority mission in 2015. But what does the right fraud solution really look like, and what is the ideal method for protecting cardholder data in an increasingly online world? To...
Malls are not exactly the healthiest of shopping species in the U.S. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...
While B2C payments players often snap up most of the headlines, B2B players are often lurking in the background, gaining ground, making moves and quietly innovating away, though often is in a less flashy manner. Taulia is one such quiet payments players that steadily gained...
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away the retailers’ challenge to the Federal Reserve’s regulation implementing the interchange-cap and network-exclusivity rules adopted in the Durbin Amendment to Dodd-Frank. The case was closely watched, because the trial judge held the Federal Reserve regulation invalid and ordered...
It seem Amazon has decided to jump out of the payments business less than a year after first jumping in. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
