Apple’s week started off in a celebratory manner, as the payments and commerce ecosystem spent much of Tuesday marking the one-year anniversary of Apple Pay. PYMNTS got so excited that we even threw a party — and invited 13 of the smartest and sharpest in the industry to...
Alphabet posted a stellar quarter from A to Z. Headline numbers topped the Street, with earnings per share coming in at $7.35, quite a bit better than the Street at $7.21. Robust ad sales and expense management helped drive the twin beats, with gross revenues coming in...
The Internet of Things revolution is underway — and China is leading the way. New research from ABI Research shows that China’s IoT market will grow fivefold in the next five years, topping $41 billion by 2020. Of the countries ABI Research tracks in its...
Suffice to say, the Internet is a big place that’s getting bigger every day. With more places for consumers to research and shop than ever before, eCommerce retailers have suddenly had to grapple with not only breaking through the white noise from competitors, but also...
The early part of this week saw the mainstream media more or less ruled by three basic topics: Joe Biden, the movie “Back to the Future II” and the Chicago Cubs. And while two out of three of those things make sense, at first glance...
There are a variety of visions for what the bank of the future should be — a coffee shop, a digital destination accessible mainly from a smartphone — but for the good folks over at Number26, the bank of the future basically isn’t a bank...
In the crowded marketplace of marketplaces where the headlines are increasingly dominated by Amazon and Alibaba, it’s easy to start comparing what appears to be apples to apples. But as eBay CEO Devin Wenig said during the company’s third quarter earnings results yesterday (Oct. 21): “We don’t want to...
Adjust, a mobile intelligence and app analytics startup, has raised $17 million in a fresh round of funding through Highland Europe, bringing its investment total to $30 million. The Berlin, Germany-based startup, which now has a presence across six major international cities, including San Francisco and...
European mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) player SumUp launched its mobile payments platform in the U.S. yesterday (Oct. 21). The company boasts that the platform is the first fully-certified EMV mPOS system to cover the entire payment process. “It’s a perfect time to bring SumUp to the U.S....
