Sometimes things work and sometimes they don’t. It looks like Zavers, the online coupon program that was launched through Google 17 months ago, is just going to be one of those things that didn’t work out. Google announced yesterday that it is pulling the program,...
Mobile-money firm Montise has brought in former Visa executive Elizabeth Buse as co-CEO to run the “day-to-day” corporate operations as well as technology, product, sales and marketing. This will leave current CEO and founder Alastair Lukies to develop external relationship with partners and industry stakeholders and...
Retail giant Sears is introducing three flagship stores in Illinois this month called “Connected Solutions.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...
In a new feature unheralded in the keynote address during this years WWDC, iPhone users will soon have access to a feature that shows you the apps, installed or not, that will work in the area the user is currently standing. Get the Full Story...
The biometrics group at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland recently announced that they had found a way to “spoof” a vein recognition device. Previously, vein recognition software was considered to be difficult to hack or spoof. This was because the biometric patterns created by...
It seems everyone lately is looking to bring bitcoins into the legally controlled mainstream, and now the SEC is getting in on the act. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against bitcoin marketing site FeedZeBirds and the operator of bitcoin betting site SatoshiDice...
Today, Big Data is all the rage, as retailers, banks and others in the payments and commerce ecosystems want to know more about their customers so they may support targeted promotions offering products and services most appropriate for them. Technology also is coming more into...
Business-to-business e-commerce could soon see some major changes. That is, if the B2B retailer of industrial products United Stationers has anything to say about the matter. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Cardflight, a provider of mobile POS technology, announced this week that it will incorporate Apple’s Touch ID technology into its SwipeSimple mobile payments application. According to a Cardflight statement, following Apple’s release of iOS 8, merchants will be able to login to the SwipeSimple application...
