Local deals and marketplace provider LivingSocial once had grand plans for an initial public offering, but Groupon’s IPO flop apparently altered that thinking. Now the struggling company is focused on making internal fixes, including selling off unwanted assets. Will the proceeds from those sales provide...
When buzz began bubbling up around Square about a month ago, the industry took notice. Many charged that was due mainly in part because the driving force behind Square was the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Many industry insiders, like MagTek CEO Mimi Hart, raised...
Do you know … How many billions of dollars will be lost to credit card fraud this year? How many consumers have no idea what NFC is or what it’s for? Or how many tax returns the IRS had in by tax day on April...
Ogone powered a mobile app designed to help one of Europe's high-speed rail providers streamline its ticketing operations. Launched in December, it’s now used by 1,000 riders per week. Find out how and why they did it.
The Carlyle Group is the first global private equity firm to close a fund that is focused entirely on building the middle class in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was inspired by the opportunity to completely transform the financial and economic opportunities in that region and obviously...
Remember the day when a coin was just a bothersome piece of metal that you were happy to toss in the tip jar to benefit the underpaid baristas at your local coffee shop? Well, the world has changed and so have coins. Economist David Evans...
The debilitating disease that plagues many companies is the dreaded, ‘failure to communicate’ disorder. A new rollout from Fiorano Software, Fiorano B2B Gateway, was designed to help users securely transact business and enable real-time information exchange and avoid succumbing to a bout of the sickness.
Do you know … How many billions of dollars will be spent on Easter this year? How many consumers use prepaid cards for retail shopping? Or how much would you have to spend to buy a Google Glass on April 15th? If not, keep up...
“Why don’t we just leapfrog over EMV and go right to mobile?” That’s just one of the questions that MPD CEO Karen Webster posed to MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer Ed McLaughlin in Part Three of this Four Part Mobile Insiders Series. Don’t you want...
