There are no shortage of social marketplaces—where users are rewarded for successfully influencing others into purchasing products—but stealth launched Favr.tt has two new ideas going for it. Like rival services Shopa, Shopcade and Nuji the London-based social marketplace matches people to products and rewards...
The Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) announced earlier this week that WEX Europe is now an official supplier partner for the 2014 membership year. With WEX Europe, HBAA will be able to enable member venues and give agencies the opportunity to benefit from WEX virtual payment...
Sunstone Capital’s Max Niederhofer thinks Beacons are the next big thing in computers—and he isn’t afraid to put his venture capital dollars behind his beliefs. “We think this is a rapidly growing, potentially very large market with high margins, in which you can build...
Nearly one third of Americans are delinquent on debt, according to a new report out from the Urban Institute. An analysis of the credit files of nearly 7 million Americans revealed that 35 percent had a debt so far past due it had been referred...
In the words of Game of Thrones’ Ned Stark, “Brace yourself: mCommerce is coming.” Okay, so the lord of Winterfell might have said winter instead is coming, but the sentiment holds true. Mobile commerce is coming to the B2B world, and in some cases it’s...
Summer lull? What summer lull? Showing that initial public offerings wait for no one, this week is shaping up to be the busiest week in the U.S. initial public offering markets on Wall Street in over a decade. Twenty-five companies will be taking the IPO...
According to some researches, the enthusiasm consumers feel for furniture they built themselves may not be, strictly speaking, rational. It’s called the “Ikea Effect” and it holds that consumers start placing outsized value on things they built themselves, simply because they mixed their labor with it...
Forty eight percent of SMBs believe that consumers will be using mobile payments in stores in the next two years. Yet only 20 percent say they’ll be ready – and these are merchants that sell both online and in stores. So, how do SMBs resist...
The complicated nature of payer and provider payments has made health care one of the last, and largest, sectors where paper-based settlements still reign. However, efforts are underway to bring payment electronification to the healthcare sector. And that has competition among B2B players heating up.
