Let’s play a little Bitcoin Jeopardy, shall we? We just gave you the answers, so tell us the questions. We’ll give you a hint. One of them is “How Much is Bitcoins.com expected to bring at auction?” See how well you do in this week’s...
Loop made headlines earlier this week with an announced strategic investment from Synchrony Financial—the about to IPO GE Capital spinoff. While an investment from the nation’s largest private label issuer might be enough for some, Loop CEO Will Graylin says this is the first of...
Want to really know why mobile payments struggle to ignite? Bad design. At least that’s what Seattle-based startup Artifact says and why it is has created an entirely new payments form factor that fits on your wrist, is biometric, supports Beacon, enables payments and makes...
The month of June saw roughly three quarters of a billion dollars invested in B2B ventures focused on data, development and developing countries. And the key driver? Wanting to keep up with their B2C counterparts in leveraging mobile and the cloud.
Who better than a mobile operator to actually deploy mobile authentication solutions for commerce? Well, that’s at least the opinion of AT&T who soon plans to test a service for international travelers so that they can avoid declined card transactions. How will their solution compete...
New Nielsen research suggests consumers max out at 26 or so apps a month – which means commerce and payments apps have to be amazingly compelling to pry eyeballs from games and other software. Other than hiring George Clooney or Kate Upton as apps spokespeople,...
Online marketplace Google reportedly has set aside $500 million to fund expansion of its same-day delivery service to more cities, presumably to go head to head with Amazon who has the same ambitions. Yet, this announcement comes on the heels of eBay shuttering plans for...
Experts in the travel procurement sector agree that centralized travel procurement is optimal, but not every organization is equipped to implement and support such a system. What can businesses learn from the experiences of those leading in house travel departments?
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) - worries that the U.S. banking system is dangerously vulnerable to acts of cyber-warfare that could fundamentally damage the entire economy. To head off the threat, the organization wants to see banking executives, federal officials and security...
