Line, the mobile messaging platform, is crossing into the payments sphere with its new Line Pay service that will launch worldwide next week on Dec. 8, VentureBeat reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Most city-dwellers are familiar with street musicians, the performers for the people who strum guitars, play pan pipes and sing with varying degrees of tunefulness at tourist attractions and on subway platforms nationwide. To finance their art, many put out a hat to catch tips...
Today will mark the tenth time that consumers whose need to spend was not quite quelled during the long Thanksgiving weekend, will return to work and carry-on commerce in one of the latest holiday season retail rituals, Cyber-Monday. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
The official kick-off the holiday shopping season, Thanksgiving, Black Friday (and Small Business Saturday, and “Needs A Marketing Guru To Name It” Sunday represent what is expected to be the four biggest shopping holidays of the U.S. retail calendar year. Get the Full Story Complete...
Facebook deals another blow to small business as it announced yet another change to how it will decide what users see in their News Feeds. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Here’s a nice way to share a little holiday spirit: Mobile payments startup HouseTab will donate five meals to Food Bank for New York City each time a new user downloads and registers HouseTab’s iOS or Android app until Jan. 3, 2015 — and the...
It seems like social networks should go with e-commerce as naturally as peanut butter is combined with jelly to make the world’s most elementally perfect sandwich. Unfortunately, as it turns, out the graveyard of e-commerce is filled with many such pairings gone south. Get the...
Amazon is running a trial in three cities—New York, Los Angeles and Seattle—to offer installation and other services—including plumbing, electrical work, fitness instructors and even music teachers—along with germane products purchased. Once a shopper chooses one of a handful of Amazon “hand-picked pros” for the...
Retailers. Brands. Consumers. Each stakeholder, with its own objectives and interests, plays a key role in the rapidly transforming, increasingly tech-savvy retail industry. And at the intersection of all three sits Jingit, the first real-time events-based payments and engagement platform, says Jingit’s CEO Kate Bolseth....
