Yelp is working with the Hipmunk travel search engine to expand its hotel booking business. Hipmunk’s focus is letting travelers browse flights and hotels by a combination of factors like pricing, layover duration and amenities. Hipmunk is already in deals with direct-booking sites like Getaroom...
When exploring global expansion for Apple Pay, China is the highest priority for Apple CEO Tim Cook, even though the service has yet to launch there. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
A survey of B2B procurement officers has B2B spending increasing 11 percent (year over year), but such purchases are faring poorly online. This has caused many of those B2B sales to go to Amazon and other large E-Commerce sites. Get the Full Story Complete the...
After weeks of waiting and speculating, Apple Pay went live and the payments industry stood back and watched things play out. Something wonderful happened- lots of people suddenly took lots of interest in mobile payments and a small army appeared on Twitter to pay by...
When global electronic trading network Tungsten Network purchased DocuSphere last month, it spent $6.5 million, according to a report published Thursday (Oct. 23) by the Global Trade Review. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
At the last official Apple Event held this month, Tim Cook announced that Apple Pay would sign on an additional 500 banks throughout the course of both this year and next. Cook has already started to make good on that assertion since both Visa and...
What does it take to enable the future of commerce? We’re no longer talking contactless payments on just smartphones and tablets – the focus is now on turning every device into a commerce device, says MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer Ed McLaughlin. To coincide with...
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Data breaches in retail are seemingly becoming the "news of the day." It’s crossed multiple types of merchants and categories, costing companies an average of $11.6 million. The time needed to recover from a breach is up 130 percent. In a new whitepaper, ThreatMetrix reveals...
