If you love Chick-Fil-A, you’re going to love them even more now. The Atlanta-based fast-food chain is giving away a free breakfast item to all of its app users as a way to thank them for making the mobile app one of the top free...
Visa Europe, the payments giant merging with its former parent company, Visa Inc., said early Tuesday (Jan. 26) that it had its most successful year ever in terms of revenue growth, as the top line grew by 25 percent to €2.31 billion for the year...
Although their companies have gone their separate ways, the CEOs of PayPal and eBay would have you know that they’re each doing just fine. Last week, Daniel Schulman, chief executive of PayPal, and Devin Wenig, chief executive of eBay, spoke separately — but positively — to CNBC...
A retail-focused payment technology company and a creator of touchscreens have connected. It was announced yesterday (Jan. 25) that USA Technologies (USAT), a payment technology service provider of integrated cashless and mobile transactions in the self-service retail market, has acquired the cloud-based content delivery platform,...
In the wake of Twitter’s weekend announcement that heads rolled and heads were replaced, deeper questions are being asked as to whether the company is indeed providing a service that is destined to find real stickiness and longevity. As reported by The Wall Street Journal and other...
EReaders don’t yet have a single dominant device like iPods were to MP3 players, but Amazon’s Kindle line might be the closest thing. Now, Amazon is trying to give its eReader of choice a leg-up in an unfamiliar market: brick-and-mortar stores. Never one to test...
The volatility in equities and commodities thus far this year is not necessarily indicative of a change in the global economic outlook, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, said Thursday (Jan. 21). Carney made his assessment in an interview with The Wall Street...
Samsung Pay is coming to Spain, according to an announcement that the payments platform is now available through CaixaBank and through that bank’s mobile unit, imaginBank. Those two financial companies are the first to launch in Spain with Samsung Pay. CaixaBank launched its first mobile service in...
For small businesses, turning first-time customers into repeat ones can mean the difference between profitability and insolvency, and FiveStars now has the financial means to put more SMBs on the former side. TechCrunch reported that the San Francisco-based loyalty platform startup FiveStars recently finalized a...
