Alibaba has become the target of the latest political ad from the Alliance for Main Street Fairness — a spot previously held by Amazon. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Delivering mass payments is pretty easy if a corporation is paying 50,000 payees the same amount, in one country, and everyone’s banked, says Lisa Shields, CEO of hyperWALLET. Where it gets difficult, she says, is when you’re paying 50,000 people different amounts across 80 countries...
From Black Friday to Cyber Monday to Singles Day, to say that online shopping is booming around the globe would be a far, far understatement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Retailers and consumers have wised up to each other’s habits: Offer more sales and consumer will shop more. But if stores offer longer sales, it also may spread out how, where and when consumers are spending their money. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Two websites pretending to be from the Bitcoin Foundation are trying to steal Bitcoin users’ cryptocurrency — and there may be more scammers out there, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
SimplyTapp announced today that it has raised $5.9M in a Series B financing round from unnamed new investors as well as existing investors Blue Sky Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. To date SimplyTapp has raised $7.6M in capital. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
In what is at least the third mobile-enabled scheduled-car alternative to San Francisco buses, a startup called Loup is selling space in black sedans that repeatedly travel the exact route. The cost? Between $2.50 and $6, depending on the portion of the route. Get the...
Amazon has selected a replacement for CEO Jeff Bezos, Bezos told an audience Tuesday (Dec. 2), but the identity is confidential. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
As the struggling RadioShack chain is trying to restructure and survive, the last thing it needs is a public battle with its lenders. And yet, the last thing one needs is sometimes exactly what happens—and such is the plight of RadioShack. Get the Full Story...
