March 07, 2016
PwC Gets Into The Gig Economy
PricewaterhouseCoopers is making a move on the rapidly expanding “gig” economy with a marketplace that matches freelancers with internal corporate projects. The largest assurance and advisory firm by revenue, PwC...
February 19, 2016
Merchants’ Eye View: South Carolina
As always, there is the story the numbers tell and the stories the people tell. And so PYMNTS went on the road again like Willie Nelson, to seek out the...
February 17, 2016
IBM Goes Open-Source For Better IoT Apps
Putting limits on what the Internet of Things can do to transform everything from in-store retail operations to multinational logistics is a great way to hamstring a potentially revolutionary technology....
February 11, 2016
Paying The Freelancing World, One Project At A Time
Global payments is seeing blurred lines between parties – whether B2B or B2C or P2P. But one audience that may be quietly making inroads into a veritable sea change in...
January 14, 2016
WorkDesq Finds A Seat In On-Demand Economy
The workforce is changing as it skews younger, with an on-demand mindset developing among employers. Here's how Workdesq is linking freelancers and businesses, online.
December 31, 2015
2015’s Most Intriguing B2B Venture Capital Trends
B2B venture capital activity this year was anything but consistent. Some weeks saw hundred-million dollar investment rounds; others, a modest few millions of dollars funneled into just a couple of...
November 27, 2015
On-Demand Workforce, SME Finance And SaaS Take The (Tiny) Cake
For investors in the U.S., it’s a short week, and that means a bit of a venture capitalist slump for B2B startups. Nonetheless, backers from the U.S. pulled through with...
November 27, 2015
The Beginning Of The End Of Black Friday?
While most people mistakenly believe Black Friday is so-named because it’s the day merchants “go into the black” with sales for the year, longtime PYMNTS readers know better. Most...
November 25, 2015
Shiftgig Rakes In $22M For On-Demand Job Marketplace
On-demand job marketplace Shiftgig has raised $22 million in a Series B funding round to further expand its mobile platform, bringing its total raised capital value to $35 million. The latest...
