It’s too early into the new year to definitively call a trend. But then again, only two weeks into 2020, mergers and deal-making in payments, specifically within digital payments and FinTech, are sizzling. In just the past few days we’ve seen announcements of more than...
The new year is still new, and those on the front lines battling cybercrimes and the hackers who work from the shadows might be exhausted already. For now, at least, tensions between the United States and Iran have been dialed down a bit, if only...
Call it a crisis that crosses the pond, will last into 2020 and, likely, beyond. Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at...
The year is drawing to a close. Bitcoin hovers at $7,100 and change. Depending on how you view it, it’s a nice bounce off of nadirs of below $4,000 earlier in the year but well off 2019 highs that broke through $11,000 … and a...
The season of good cheer is upon us. Well, that depends on what side of the retail aisle you’re talking about. In eCommerce? Boom times a plenty, it seems, as double-digit sales growth marked Black Friday into Cyber Monday. And early stats coming into the...
The holidays are approaching. The money that comes into retailers’ coffers at brick-and-mortar locations will filter up to pay the landlord; the landlord will stay afloat. Perhaps not. There is a big bet riding on that “perhaps not.” It’s become standard practice to point to...
Bit by bit the dozens of attorneys general looking at Google are expanding how — along with where and why — they are examining the tech giant. Perhaps we could call it “antitrust creep.” News came at the end of this week that the 5o...
The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. Emily Dickinson once wrote that “hope is the thing with feathers.” This illustration applies nicely to the...
Optimism can be contagious. A can-do attitude can rally the troops, get things done, spark innovation where once the status quo was, well, good enough. Then there’s optimism that is, if not whistling past the graveyard, at least humming a few bars. For the Libra...
