The Oscars have become one of Hollywood’s most glamorous events over the past nearly nine decades, with stars spending millions on red carpet ensembles and companies shelling out just as much to score an advertising spot or a little real estate inside the event’s extravagant...
A good forecast is a notoriously difficult thing to write – particularly if one is trying to write it about the payments and commerce ecosystem. Had we told the world a year ago today that Amazon was going to buy Whole Foods, that Walmart Pay...
The big competition this weekend will take place on the football field, when more than 100 million people will tune in tomorrow night to see if the Eagles will be able to snag their first championship win — or if Tom Brady will end the day able to cover...
It’s every Uber rider’s worst nightmare: A ride that costs hundreds of more dollars than expected. In October, an Illinois woman hopped out of an Uber after a 100-mile ride to discover she had been charged nearly a thousand dollars. The ride — from a Chicago...
Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, which opened for business in 1460. The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire, which thought...
First Data said Saturday that in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, the company will send thousands of its Clover Go mobile credit and debit card readers to small businesses (SMBs) in Houston and the surrounding area. The devices are being offered free...
“For us, this is basically like Christmas will come twice in 2017 with how busy it’s been all week.” So spoke Rosie Dixon, the eponymous Rosie behind Rosie’s Gifts near Greenville, South Carolina. Summer, she said, isn’t her shop’s busiest season most years. Fall is usually...
TSYS announced news on Tuesday (July 25) that it has signed an exclusive long-term agreement with Monetary, a connected commerce provider offering integrated payment services and marketing automation technologies for the point-of-sale industry. In a press release, TSYS said under the terms of the agreement,...
The engine is sputtering for U.S. auto sales. The latest data, as noted by news in The Wall Street Journal, shows that June marked another slowdown, as notched by auto maker juggernauts such as GM and Ford, with declines seen year over year. The declines also were...
