$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
More than one out of every three (35 percent) shoppers today use mobile devices as part of their purchasing process, a 10 percent hike from 2012, according to new results from a shopper behavior study. Much of the change comes from sharp increases from three...
Curbside, the mobile shopping startup, is using $9.5 million in seed and Series A funding to help shoppers do same-day pickup, which is a hybrid between mobile shopping and in-store. Ideally, it combines the convenience of M-Commerce with the immediacy of in-store, with shoppers driving...
Square has closed $150 million in new venture financing, bringing Square’s current value to about $6 billion, the New York Times reported Sunday (Oct. 5). The new financing round was led the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.—a new investor—and included Goldman Sachs and Rizvi Traverse...
Visa CEO Charlie Scharf is trying to change the payments conversation, from reaching out to retailers—some of whom, he freely admits, “hate” Visa—to embracing mobile and cyber currency strategies, according to an extensive BusinessWeek profile published Thursday (Oct. 2). Get the Full Story Complete the...
Supervalu has discovered a second data breach—a “separate intrusion” potentially launched by a different sets of cyberthieves—that hit many of its grocery stores. The chain did, however, report a silver lining: Security upgrades from the first attack minimized damage from the second attack. But it...
The Chinese government is officially allowing Apple to start selling the iPhone 6/6 Plus in China after extracting a privacy promise from Apple “that it would never allow any country or government agency backdoor access to its devices or user data,” according to a report...
Wanting to keep its most critical pilots near its headquarters in Bentonville, the world’s largest retail chain this began filling same-day Internet grocery purchases at a drive-thru facility in Bentonville on Tuesday (Sept. 29). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
There’s more reported fallout from the databreach at sandwich-chain Jimmy John’s, with some 100 new restaurant victims identified and a confirmation from the chain that “an unauthorized person gained access to a user name and password that Signature Systems used to remotely access POS systems.”...
