Bitcoin is now just a big game of how low can you go with prices down to $374.67 from $410. PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. When looking at the bitcoin trading this week, unless one is truly risky, traders are advised to refrain from shorting the...
There’s nothing better than a juicy story. And the juicy story this week was what is said to have lead up to the decision of the eBay Board to spin off PayPal. What’s been reported “according to sources that have knowledge” on both the PayPal...
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Fortune magazine reported that the reason PayPal was left out in the cold on 9/9 when Apple Pay was launched was all because of Samsung. They report that before PayPal made a deal with Samsung, there were talks with Apple during the early stages of...
Macy’s has been incrementally building its merged channel capabilities for years. The chain has repeated the same process again and again: Start with a small-scale test of an in-store feature, such as Macy’s “Store to Door” program, in which if one store is out of an...
The recent shifts in the payments industry – Apple Pay, an independent PayPal, a publicly traded Alibaba – has forced everyone to think well beyond secure payment transacting to secure identity enablement. Marek Juda, Managing Director at Oberthur Technologies told MPD CEO Karen Webster what’s...
Victor Ho, the CEO of 3-year-old loyalty firm FiveStars, has become a veteran of the capital-raising game as he has built his firm to support more than 5,500 merchants and about 4 million cardholding shoppers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
North American Bancard CEO Marc Gardner is not a big fan of shopping at large national retailers, saying that he much prefers a local boutique where personalized customer service is a much higher priority. The problem is that when he looks at his PayPal mobile...
Construction spending in the U.S. construction fell in August, after a slight increase in July. The 0.8 percent decline was the second fall off in the last three months and weakness was spread across all three major sectors—residential, non-residential and government projects, reports The Associated Press....
