When people say someone is as “rich as Croesus,” they’re talking of to a time (B.C. time) when gold was first starting to be used as a currency. A time when Croesus of Mermnadae, the last King of Lydia, had accumulated an ungodly amount of gold...
Pii360 – The Payments Innovation Index – is a proprietary index that accurately measures what more than 100 companies across 10 segments in payments have done to innovate and how experts in payments view the success of these companies in bringing those innovations to market....
There is currently enough snow on the ground in the greater Boston area to fill Foxboro stadium over 90 times, with another 2-4 feet being predicted by Monday (Feb. 16). Given the fact that global warming seems to have abandoned New England, payments innovators may...
When Google tapped WePay to tackle its mobile-commerce payments problem, it didn’t just give merchants an easy way to use its two-tap instant Buy system, it helped gave them an easy way to do business cross-border and gave birth to an interesting partnership. Get the...
What do professional baseball, Google, political forecasting and retail all have in common? A love of big data. Whether that comes in the form of Billy Beane harnessing its power to build a better baseball team, Nate Silver taking all the fun out of the...
When most people think of commerce and Turkey, the first image that jumps to mind is probably of Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar (pictured below). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
This past summer, PYMNTS.com CEO Karen Webster explored the idea of innovation and what it means to be disruptive. As Webster noted, the term has become part of our everyday vocabulary to describe the products and services that help make our lives easier. But it’s...
Coupons have become game changers in India. 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...
Googling the phrase “the fate of physical retail,” will not tell one much about the fate of physical retail – though it will give one a fairly good insight into what the chatterati were all in agreement about vis a vis retail at any given...