Late sleepers probably didn’t see it live, but as of 6:55 a.m. ET yesterday morning (roughly 8 p.m. local time in Tokyo) the Olympics got their formal kick-off with all the pomp, circumstance, unintentional humor and touching moments that have been a staple of the...
Wearables are a great way to keep track of a variety of things from calories burned to discovering sleeping patterns, surfing the web and sometimes just telling time. For the past few years, there have been a myriad of wearables popping up to help people become...
While people may use cards and digital wallets to make purchases, cash continues to be the most widely accepted payment method and about half to two-thirds of the $1.4 trillion in paper currency in circulation goes outside the United States, according to the Federal Reserve.
Is there life without a smartphone? If so, what will replace it? Smartphone shipments show a persistent decline year over year. Saturated markets and high prices could be to blame, but what the industry really needs to figure out is, if the smartphone is on...
Facebook wants app developers to “grow” their apps and businesses beyond the install phase, and have introduced a new product, App Event Optimization, that gives them the ability to do just that. Facebook’s Developer News blog says that App Event Optimization allows app developers to...
The weekend is here! A perfect time for camping, the beach, get-togethers and catching up on this week’s top PYMNTS stories. What’s on the menu, you ask? We’re serving up a four-course meal on Lending Club, bitcoin, the Visa Everywhere contest and Karen Webster’s latest...
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday (Dec. 21) that software vendor Oracle has agreed to settle on the charges filed against it that accuse the company of lying to its customers about the security of its Java software updates. According to the FTC’s complaint, Oracle’s...
Are employees of financial institutions their biggest threat to data security? According to a recent survey released by the Association of Corporate Counsel, as many as 30 percent of all data breaches this year have resulted from employee error. Some of the largest banks and...
The U.S. Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation to find out if employees of Lyft were involved in a data breach against competitor Uber in May 2014. According to Reuters, the May 2014 breach at Uber included as many as 50,000 drivers’ names and...
