Merchant Innovation

Etsy Looking to Raise $300M With Q1 IPO
January 15, 2015

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...

Moovit Raises $50M in New Round of Investments
January 15, 2015

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...

Company Spotlight
The 9 Things We Learned About mPOS in 2014
January 15, 2015

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...

Former Tesco Head Invests $5M in Purple WiFi
January 15, 2015

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...

The Future Of Retail Is Now
January 13, 2015

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....

Loyalty & Rewards
Apple Watch Is Coming (And The Ad World Prepares)
January 13, 2015

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...

Will Apple Pay Bring Banks And Merchants Together?
January 12, 2015

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...

Macy’s New Store Strategy
January 12, 2015

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...

International
Alibaba’s Big Indian Bet
January 12, 2015

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...