May 18, 2015
What’s Next, This Week
Uncle. That’s what even we say at times when we look at the thousands of news items that gush into our databases over the course of any given day. Multiply...
May 15, 2015
Apple’s Freemium Fight
In 2003, Apple changed the face of music with the back-to-back releases of the iTunes store and the iPod. Apple did not invent the MP3 player – several versions were...
May 11, 2015
Are Subscriptions The Secret To Customer Loyalty?
Discounts are a surefire way to attract a customer – a fact that the millions nationwide who still hit the stores before the break of dawn on Black Friday can...
May 07, 2015
How Mobile Gives Grocery’s Bricks More Clicks
When it comes to studying how consumers use mobile to shop, the grocery market is a particularly interesting case study. So much of the space is being disrupted by the...
May 04, 2015
MasterCard Launches Business Network 2.0 For US Business Owners
MasterCard announced that it has launched the latest version of its professional site, Business Network 2.0. According to a company release, the new site is built on feedback from hundreds...
April 21, 2015
Micropayments-For-Content Startup CoinTent Raises $1.1M
San Francisco startup CoinTent, which wants to get Internet readers to pay for news stories and other written content on the Web, has come out of beta and raised $1.1...
April 15, 2015
Amazon Prime Inventory Hits 33M Products In Q1
Amazon Prime’s product selection just keeps getting bigger. The $99-a-year service now offers free two-day shipping on a total of 33 million physical and digital products, including 13 percent of...
March 30, 2015
Retail’s Digitally Shifting Landscape
The year 2015 has become a time when payment, commerce and retail executives are focused on all things digital — a time when the terms digital media, mobile and omnichannel...
March 13, 2015
B2B Investment Tracker, March 6-13
Venture capitalists were largely quiet in the B2B space this past week, but the limited number of investments fueled a diverse range of business-to-business services, from marketing technology, to alternative...