For decades, there weren’t many who could compete with Walmart when it came to in-store pricing, discounts and sales. As the retail landscape has shifted to emphasize the digital over the physical, though, Walmart has been confronted with the need to adapt to a new...
WhatsApp’s 1 billion+ users will now save a dollar every year in return for popup notifications, as the Facebook-owned company moves to shift its subscription model to an ad-based business model. “Today, we are announcing that WhatsApp is going to be free to users. We...
As startups work on projects like IoT and FinTech innovations that stand to change retail in the near future, just as many businesses have their eyes trained on the distant horizon in retail and what it might bring. For point-of-sale system manufacturer Elo, that future...
It’s not enough to have a robust eCommerce operation anymore. If that same platform doesn’t work when customers try to engage with it across another medium, retailers put themselves at risk of more lost sales than they can count. Fortunately, Mozu just announced a solution...
Data protection and security company Trustwave is being sued by Affinity Gaming for allegedly being unable to mitigate a cyberattack that negatively impacted its business, ZDNet reported Monday (Jan. 18). The cybersecurity firm was hired by Affinity Gaming after the casino operator fell victim to a data breach that...
So much for Barclays’ full-fledged push into Africa. As The Wall Street Journal noted on Monday (Jan. 18), the banking giant was among the vanguard of Western finance firms moving into the sub-Saharan region of Africa. Now, the firm is looking to back out of that arena —...
As consumers wait for the Internet of Things to round into a marketable and affordable form, startups are hard at work making sure that the next level of IoT functionality is ready and waiting for those early adopters brave enough to try something new. With...
With the FinTech revolution underway, Lloyds Banking Group is attempting to keep up with the times. At least that’s what the group is doing with its new Digital Banking Hub that’s been rolled out in order to get the bank up to speed with the...
Wirecard and Visa Europe Collab are pairing up to serve the FinTech market. Wirecard Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Wirecard AG (payment processing and financial tech provider), announced yesterday (Jan 18) a partnership with Visa Europe Collab, a Visa Europe initiative focused on innovation. Through...
