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Apple Sold A Ton Of iPhones In Q3
October 21, 2014

Apple’s fourth-quarter earnings came in just hours after Apple Pay launched Monday (Oct. 20), with Apple delivering several record-breaking revenue, sales and profit numbers. Those numerical victories come from strong sales of the iPhone6 and 6 Plus, which are enduring huge backlogs. Get the Full...

B2B Payments
MasterCard, Newgen Push Better B2B Payments In Asia Pacific
October 21, 2014

Newgen Software and MasterCard are working today to support faster and more secure B2B payments throughout Asia Pacific. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

Mobile Payments To Benefit From Tech Investments
October 20, 2014

Financial service companies are expected to invest about $110 billion in various payment technologies by 2017, with mobile getting a very healthy percentage of those funds, projects Frost & Sullivan. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Bitcoin’s Still Bumpy
October 17, 2014

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to...

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North American B2B Procurement Inefficiencies Cost $1.5 Billion/Year
October 16, 2014

Although the concept of B2B procurement systems is to sharply increase productivity, that’s doesn’t seem to be how it’s working out. Barely 28 percent of procurement professionals say that their procurement systems make them any more productive, according to a research survey. Get the Full...

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Omni-channel Is Dead
October 15, 2014

The reigning buzzword champion – omni-channel – is dead. There, I said it. Someone had to. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...

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You Can’t Put A Price On Privacy. But Apple Can: $50 Million Per Violation
October 14, 2014

In the B2B payments world, manufacturers often find themselves having to agree to severe penalties for non-performance such as late deliveries. This can be frustrating if the delays are unavoidable and if those penalties mean the difference between profit and loss. In one extreme case...

B2B Payments
Navigating Fleet Rewards Cards
October 13, 2014

Always looking to save a buck here and there, fleet operators and their drivers have a wide variety of rewards cards from which to choose, ranging from parts stores to travel centers. These typically proprietary products, however, can pack a wallet pretty quickly. As such,...

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So Why Do Consumers Abandon Shopping Carts?
October 13, 2014

Online retailers face losing at least a fourth — sometimes nearly half — of their customer base at checkout because of hurdles like consumer distrust of website payment methods, lacking preferred payment, wonky or slow sites and caveats of having to register too much personal...