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Tradegood Portal Now Boasts 5,000 Buyers
October 28, 2014

More than 5,000 corporate buyers are using Tradegood.com as a portal for buying products ranging from apparel and consumer electronics to home furnishings and health care supplies from more than 100,000 suppliers, according to a report in Internet Retailer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

B2B Payments
Why Startups Need To Worry About Procurement Practices
October 28, 2014

When on the verge of radically disrupting a market ecosystem and earning billions by shining the light of innovation down on the masses, it can be hard for executives at startups to get really excited about the procurement process.  Innovation is fun, funding is fun...

B2B Payments
Mack Trucks Getting Into The Loyalty Card Biz
October 28, 2014

The people at Mack Trucks are offering a $1,500 Mack Trucks Loyalty Reward card for any truck purchase until the end of the year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Apple Pay
Why mPOS is No Exception to the Apple Pay Effect
October 28, 2014

In the weeks following the Apple Pay debut, players in the industry have been figuring out ways to complement, or compete against, the new mobile payments juggernaut. Within the world of mPOS, that means Apple Pay is being worked into existing platforms – a work...

Overcoming Friction in B2B Payments
October 28, 2014

A few weeks ago, innovators and thought leaders focused on enterprise payments gathered in New York City to discuss “What’s Next” in B2B payments – and what’s really broken. PYMNTS sat down on-site with Dean Leavitt, CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, to get his perspective...

Why Don’t More Consumers Use Apple’s Passbook?
October 28, 2014

Although it’s widely known that Apple Passbook is an area that very few shoppers have bothered with yet, what is less clear is why and whether Apple Pay’s repeated use of Passbook is going to motivate shoppers to try it directly. A report from Flagship...

Mobile To Fuel Holiday eCommerce
October 28, 2014

U.S. e-commerce sales are on track to beat last year’s numbers by $61.4 billion — a figure that eMarketer reported will continually increase as mobile commerce draws in a larger e-commerce audience. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Mobile
Twitter Struggling To Articulate Its Payments Strategy
October 28, 2014

It’s no secret Twitter wants to be the next big player in E-commerce, but it is a mystery, at least to those listening in to Monday’s (Oct. 27) call with investors, how. Some three-and-a-half months after buying CardSpring, a payments infrastructure firm, company executives had...

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New Fraud Tactic: Non-EMV Transactions Pretending To Be EMV
October 28, 2014

Here’s a cyberthief twist. Thieves are routing bogus transactions through Brazil and are riding under the cover of EMV. The twist? “They were all submitted through Visa and MasterCard‘s networks as chip-enabled transactions, even though the banks that issued the cards in question haven’t even...