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...
According to reports, Apple is interviewing senior executives in the payments industry to help create an electronic payments business.
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.
Israel, with its emerging tech scene embodied by the entrepreneurs of "Silicon Boulevard" in Tel Aviv, has gotten the world's attention as "Start-Up Nation." PYMNTS correspondent Andy Freedman is in Israel with a view as to just what makes this Start-Up Nation such a hot...
Mark Cuban is a very successful investor with billions of dollars to show for smart picks. His rather "eclectic" taste for startups makes it hard to judge the objective value of his seal of approval. But for tiny B2B procurement start-up Procurify, Cuban's recent high...
Every year $21 billion goes up in smoke due to fraud based on identity theft. miiCard thinks it has a solution that could cut that as much as 80% per year. PYMNTS caught up with Founder and CEO James Varga about how miiCard’s new virtual...
It’s one thing to note that a merchant’s payment-data system has been breached, but the reality of what that means really hits home when consumers start saying they’ve been affected. And new Pew Research Center survey data show a significant rise in the percentage of...
What a wild week! Bitcoin started at $402, went as high as $543 and ended at $486 at 6:30 am EST. It was 22 times more volatile than the dollar over the past 30 days. Jeff Bezos said "no" but a Texas AG said yes....
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...
