Long rumored and often wooed by big banks wanting to take the company public, the Brooklyn-based handmade crafts seller Etsy has announced that it will go public sometime in the first quarter of 2015, sources inside the company confirm. Working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan...
Mobile payments are expected to be the next wave in the development of online payment, and it will become the most successful when integration into non-commerce apps take hold. One company looking to take advantage of cheaper mobile payment software as a complement to its...
2014 was the that mPOS went mainstream: mPOS became ATMs, mPOS enabled-Apple Pay, and existing mPOS platforms delivered a whole new level of functionality. We tracked 136 companies over the last year and have 9 key takeaways about the mPOS marketplace. The latest PYMNTS mPOS...
As payments become increasingly electronic, and with advertising increasingly driven by social media footprint, having a low-cost public WiFi system presents both as a must for efficient payment processing as well as data gathering on consumer shopping habits. Looking to capitalize on the growing e-commerce industry...
There’s no doubt that the face of retail is changing. And this week in New York, retailers and the marketers and technologists that work with them are together trying to figure out how to get ahead of that change and turn it into an advantage....
Apple’s much-anticipated wearable may have plenty of health-monitoring features, but mobile marketers know what the Apple Watch is really good at: putting digital ads on potential customers’ wrists, according to The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay. It claims that the launch of Apple Pay has accelerated the efforts of the retailers to join forces with banks to create bank-branded wallets. It says that these bank-branded wallets would...
In response to what they are calling a change in consumer shopping, Macy’s Inc. has announced plans to change how it stocks and sells clothing and other items. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and its financial-services affiliate have agreed to invest $575 million to jointly in India’s One97 Communications Ltd.’s online-payment and marketplace businesses, sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...