April 27, 2015
The Affordable Care Act Efficiencies Defense in Section 7 Cases:...
This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Kent Bernard, Apr 27, 2015 In an earlier article commenting on the District Court decision in the FTC...
April 27, 2015
Why eCommerce Needs A Foot In The Real World
As PYMNTS noted last week, there’s no shortage of quantitative data on the Internet. It’s barely an exaggeration to state that whatever statistic one needs – no matter how obscure –...
April 22, 2015
PYMNTS Investment Tracker, April 15-22
When the Portland (Oregon) Seed Fund got its start four years ago, the concept of “going to City Hall for seed funding” was a bit of an eyebrow-raising idea. But...
April 16, 2015
Shopify Poised To Go Public After $37.3M Q1 Revenue
With the filing of an F-1 document with the SEC, Shopify has announced its intention to pursue an IPO and begin selling shares on the open market. That decision seems...
April 15, 2015
It’s Official – Prosper Is A Unicorn
Last week San Francisco welcomed the latest unicorn to the herd – P2P lending site Prosper. Prosper announced that it brought in another $165 million in venture funding and sailed...
April 09, 2015
P2P Lender Prosper Valued At $1.9B
The United States’ second biggest P2P lending market has closed out a financing round that pushes its valuation to $1.9 billion – rocketing it into the “unicorn” strata of startups...
March 18, 2015
The Looming Tech Bubble Burst: Overblown Or Overdue?
Prominent tech investor Bill Gurley captured headlines coming out of SXSW last week with his rather grim predictions of things to come for the startup economy – and unusual addition...
March 16, 2015
Bubble Warnings Coming From SXSW
All of the coolest kids in tech, music and movies were gathered in Austin to meet, greet, network and share a few grim prophesies of doom to come. OK, well,...
August 15, 2014
The Better-Than-MCX Mobile Commerce Approach
To a degree that would likely shock an outsider, the payments industry loves a thrill. The industry’s favorite adjective is “disruptive” and an invisible disruption is, well, intuitively something that...