Most subscription-based services deliver other companies’ products straight to customers’ homes, but Birchbox thinks its consumers are ready for something else. On Wednesday (Oct. 14), Bloomberg Business reported that the cosmetics delivery startup will be launching its own product line. Called “Love of Color,” or LOC...
When the EMV transition occurred at the beginning of the month, some experts were left wondering why PINs weren’t involved alongside secure chips. Evidently, Target had been wondering the same thing. Cleveland.com reported that Target has been emailing customers enrolled in its store credit card program...
As the business week comes closer to a close, there's still plenty of big news breaking across the payments and commerce world. Square's IPO, First Data's public price plans, MasterCard's mobile push, Uber SMB delivery, and Apple's court troubles.
A new survey published by alternative lending platform Lendified this week finds that Canadian small businesses are in a bit of a rut. The Lendified Index, published Wednesday (Oct. 14), found that 70 percent SMEs in the nation are either not growing or in decline....
Cross-border payments network PayCommerce designs its services for international payments needs, and its latest venture aims to reduce global payments friction even further. To do so, the company said it’s working with Software AG’s Digital Business Platform. In an announcement yesterday (Oct. 14), PayCommerce revealed...
U.K. bank Barclays has inked a deal with two startups that are innovating in the hottest topic for financial services today: blockchain technology. Reports in Finextra yesterday (Oct. 14) said Barclays has chosen two startups from its New York accelerator program to sign contracts with...
Sri Lanka may not be the most robust economy on the globe, but MasterCard has launched a new venture that will look to boost the nation’s economy through more sophisticated B2B payments. Reports on Wednesday (Oct. 14) said the credit card conglomerate has teamed with...
The news the payments community has been waiting for has hit the wires: Square has filed for its IPO. The mobile payments startup officially announced the plans yesterday (Oct. 14) on its blog, which revealed that Square will trade on the NYSE as SQ. The...
Uber is bolstering its same-day delivery service in its top performing U.S. markets — New York City, Chicago and San Francisco — through two new partnerships with Shopify and Bigcommerce. The partnerships will essentially extend UberRUSH’s same-day delivery service, which runs through the Uber driver network, to the...
