Just as Uber was able to use mobile technology and ease of access to revolutionize the taxicab industry, Customers Bank CEO Jay Sidhu is hoping that his newly launched BankMobile can cause an equal or greater disruption in the banking industry. Get the Full Story...
Amid the fervor of the net neutrality debates in Washington, Blackberry CEO John Chen wants to add app neutrality to the mix, claiming that it isn’t fair that mobile operating systems get to have exclusive content. Or as his critics interpret it: Why is Blackberry...
Global payments provider TSYS, along with Ingenico Group, recently announced a new agreement to offer merchants a seamless and secure solution for accepting all payment types, according to a TSYS release. These payment types include magnetic stripe, EMV, NFC and Apple Pay.
Amazon has agreed to buy Annapurna Labs, a secretive Israeli chip developer — but what’s not certain yet is what’s in the deal for Amazon. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency whose supporters like to think of it as anything but ordinary, may have just gained its best chance at widespread acceptance — by being just one of the boys. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Can a gift-card exchange be worth a billion dollars? That seems to be the case with Raise, which just pulled in another $56 million, barely two months after an $18 million round in November. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
On-demand commerce startup Button, which just launched in October, has now pulled in $12 million to build out its network of on-demand services and its recommendation capabilities, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Mobile commerce’s share will climb to 40 percent of all e-commerce transactions worldwide in 2015, and mobile will also push cross-device sales above its current 15-to-20-percent range, according to a new report from e-commerce marketing tech vendor Criteo. And while no one is about to...
On Monday (Jan. 19), the British Retail Consortium reported that over $910 million was stolen from retail outlets in 2014 — an 18 percent increase from the year prior. This is despite the fact that the volume of actual offenses decreased by 4 percent, indicating that criminals...
