Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’ve survived another Christmas. The gifts have all been opened, and the only thing left to do is finish off the short week at work and toast in the new year. So, what did you miss while sugar plums were...
Google is in the midst of building a new mobile messaging service that will link to its artificial intelligence platform, along with chatbot technology. The link across all those offerings will be a competitive effort to joust with rivals such as Facebook, according to unnamed...
Adam Silver, the current commissioner of the National Basketball Association, has been much faster to embrace advanced analytics than his counterparts at the top of other professional sports leagues. Now, that tech-centric perspective is paying off big time. Re/code reported that despite opening its first...
The holiday season has been good to PayPal’s P2P payments side. PayPal announced yesterday (Dec. 22) that PayPal saw its biggest online day of giving this year on #GivingTuesday (Dec. 1), along with Cyber Monday as its biggest online shopping day in PayPal’s history. All...
It is rare for a company so heavily involved in retail to also devote resources to something as seemingly non-sequitur as fire protection, but Tyco has managed to create a profitable business doing just that. With a recent acquisition, the company’s skills might become even...
The taxi cab business in California just got another weapon to use against Uber. Flywheel, the startup that’s challenging Uber and Lyft in the ride-hailing market with its TaxiOS platform, has rolled out its service across the entire state of California. What started as a...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday (Dec. 22) that it has released the latest iteration of its monthly consumer complaint exploration, listed as a snapshot. This time around, the consumer complaints illustrated center on money transfers. The bureau noted that the consumer complaints are focused on...
If there’s one trend that’s stuck out in 2015 — one that’s set the pace for what’s to come in payments in 2016 — it’s mobile commerce. More specifically, mobile payments. With major mobile pay players emerging throughout the year, Discover has recognized the need...
