In what is at least the third mobile-enabled scheduled-car alternative to San Francisco buses, a startup called Loup is selling space in black sedans that repeatedly travel the exact route. The cost? Between $2.50 and $6, depending on the portion of the route. Get the...
Amazon has selected a replacement for CEO Jeff Bezos, Bezos told an audience Tuesday (Dec. 2), but the identity is confidential. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Ariba, an SAP Company, announced Tuesday (Dec. 2) that more than $1 billion in B2B payments have been made to almost 1,300 suppliers using AribaPay, a cloud-based payment service launched in July by Ariba and Discover. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Online payments vendor Stripe on Monday (Dec. 1) is seeing its valuation double in less than a year, to $3.5 billion, after it closed a $70 million fundraising round, according to a story in The Financial Times. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Cab colossal Uber has retained Goldman Sachs in an attempt to raise money from Goldman’s wealthier customers, Fortune is reporting. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
Preparing for its IPO, peer-to-peer lending leader Lending Club said Monday (Dec. 1) that it would price its shares at $10-$12, which would value the company at about $4 billion. That move would also raise as much as $692.4 million. But The New York Times...
South Korean bitcoin exchange Korbit has cut a deal to accept bitcoin for one of the biggest media and entertainment companies in Asia, Bitcoinist reported on Monday (Dec. 1). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
There are plenty of niche markets in the payments world. And then there’s examples of the niches among niches — crowdsourced funding payment options available through major payment providers such as Amazon, PayPal and credit card companies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
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