MasterCard’s small business cardholders in the U.S. can now save on more than 20 million products offered on global e-commerce site Rakuten.com, according to a company release. The agreement is through MasterCard’s Easy Savings Program, which provides MasterCard small business cardholders from participating business card...
Big data isn’t always better data. In fact, TSYS’s Sr. Director of Analytics, Todd Doherty, says that focus on big data has just led to “obese data” as technology and tools make more of it available to business users. The cure for obese data, Doherty...
The case of the Silk Road online illegal drug marketplace has found itself back in the news, as criminal accusations tied to the bitcoins that funded the site have been tangled up in another criminal matter. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
In the mobile-driven population of China, there’s already a clear leader in mobile payments — Alipay, Alibaba’s mobile payment system. Can Apple keep up even if it gets approved to bring Apple Pay to the country? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
MasterCard announced today (March 30) the expansion of its San Carlos Center of Excellence, as well as the relocation go SVP of Emerging Merchants, Les Matthews, and his team to the West Coast office. Vice President, Worldwide Communications at MasterCard Brian Gendron will also be...
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March Madness is maybe the most aptly named sporting competition in history. For about a month each year, the nation seems to literally go crazy over college basketball. The estimated advertising revenue for the NCAA tournament is $1.15 billion – the equivalent of ~4.75 Super...
A month after Apple Pay launched, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga was quick to remind analysts in the company’s third-quarter earnings call that Apple Pay wasn’t the only player innovating the mobile payments space. Now, six months after Apple Pay’s launch in an recent interview, Banga offered some...
Bitcoin itself was an innovation in the payments ecosystem — even if some doubt whether it is, in fact, a good one. But despite the negative rhetoric, there’s still plenty of companies trying to show the value behind bitcoin and demonstrate how the digital currency...
