This week PayPal accomplished a minor miracle, insofar as it managed to partially break the Internet without officially joining the Kardashian/Jenner family. However, for those of us who are not Kardashian-Jenners, all publicity is not good publicity, and this week’s collection of headlines likely had...
In about three days the countdown clock on Apple’s website will run all the way down to zero and the world’s biggest company will kick off its annual developers conference in San Francisco. Google’s I/O conference was last week and (paired with Microsoft) served a...
May was a big month for the mPOS players, with the hospitality sector driving demand and user adoption. Starbucks, in the beginning of May opened an express store in New York’s Financial District, where employees take orders on their handheld device to reduce customers’ wait...
Calendars are very hot this year. It is one of those statements that initially comes as a surprise on a platform that talks all about payments and commerce. But the calendars of the 2010s are no longer delivery mechanisms for photos of shirtless firemen or...
The “year of mobile” in commerce and payments has been coming/happening/about to ignite for as long as PYMNTS has been in virtual print. And while it would be ridiculous to say that mobile commerce has not made significant progress in the last half decade, it...
In what is likely one of the more dramatic statements written in history about a software development conference, USA Today reported last week that Google’s I/O developers’ conference was the “latest salvo” in an “escalating arms race” among the Top 5 U.S. tech firms for...
More than 2 billion people globally lack access to traditional financial services. PYMNTS collaborated with Mozido to create the PYMNTS Financial Inclusion Tracker, which dives deeply into the root causes of this problem and the methodology that can solve it. On a recent podcast,...
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off in about 10 days in San Francisco. If you’d like to watch the clock count down you can click here, compliments of Apple, of course. As with all things involving Apple, the upcoming development conference has its...
The conversations about digital identity and how to secure it have never been more active – or more necessary – prompted recently by any number of news reports related to the compromise of a consumer’s identity in a digital environment. There were the reports a...
