- December 29, 2023
If your New Year’s resolution for 2024 is to get into cryptocurrency, PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Cryptocurrency Wallets is here to help.
Each month, PYMNTS uses metrics such as number of ...
- October 26, 2023
Swedish payments firm Klarna is facing a possible strike by employees in its home country.
The Unionen and Swedish Engineering unions announced Thursday (Oct. 26) that the strike will commence on Nov. 7 if a ...
- March 17, 2023
Mind telling us what’s going on with the Provider Rankings of Crypto Wallets? It’s like a crowded elevator in here. Something’s afoot. Stay tuned.
The Top 5
Where to start? How about the ...
- November 3, 2022
There’s widespread agreement that Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into an all-in-one super app that includes payments. Let the free-for-all begin.
While Musk, who was a co-founder of PayPal and ...
- September 30, 2022
In an interview this week, bitcoin payments firm Strike’s CEO said that El Salvador’s bitcoin-as-legal-tender experiment hasn’t hurt his company in any way, noting that its only involvement with the ...
- September 27, 2022
Digital payment provider Strike, which is built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round, which it will use to grow, expand existing ...
- September 20, 2022
In a month dominated by The Merge, in which the No. 2 blockchain, Ethereum, switched from its energy-hungry and slow consensus mechanism for adding new data and minting new ether ...
- April 12, 2022
If you’re buying and selling crypto on a particular exchange, there’s something to be said for using its wallet, too. After all, you know it will be able to handle ...
- April 8, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Nigeria’s OmniBiz inks deals with brands like Nestle, Kellogs and Coke to help them track and improve their sales in the African country.
Also, payments network ...
- April 8, 2022
In today’s retail news, buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments provider Klarna has teamed up with About You to provide German and Swiss shoppers with a BNPL payment option. Plus, ...
- April 8, 2022
Bitcoin-based payments firm Strike last night announced deals that will bring crypto payments to NCR point-of-sale terminals, Shopify and prepaid payments provider Blackhawk Network.
The announcement brings bitcoin, originally designed as ...
- April 8, 2022
Payments network Strike announced its integration with Canadian eCommerce platform Shopify, which will allow global merchants to accept bitcoin payments, according to a Thursday (April 7) press release.
The integration aims ...
- November 23, 2021
The “Counting Stars” band OneRepublic performed last week just outside of Vienna and was paid entirely in bitcoin, the first American major artist to accept cryptocurrency, according to multiple reports ...
- September 23, 2021
Digital wallet Strike announced the debut of the Strike API platform for marketplace and merchant businesses, according to a Thursday (Sept. 23) press release.
Twitter will use Strike’s API to allow ...
- March 27, 2020
Instacart shoppers plan to walk off the job on strike Monday (March 30), according to a Medium post Friday (March 27) by worker representatives. Shoppers are the workers who shop for ...
- December 15, 2019
A German labor union for two Amazon logistics centers is calling for a strike ahead of Christmas demanding higher pay, Reuters reported on Sunday (Dec. 15).
The labor union Verdi, in ...
- May 5, 2019
Shortly ahead of Uber’s initial public offering, drivers of the company in New York plan on going on strike.
According to a report in Reuters citing a taxi union, Uber drivers, ...
- July 16, 2018
As Prime Day is getting ready for push-off in the U.S., workers in Spain and Germany are striking to protest working conditions at the company’s warehouses, according to CNBC reports. ...
- November 20, 2017
A handful of Instacart contract workers were gearing up to strike this past weekend to protest what personal shoppers contend are low wages.
According to a news report in Ars Technica, ...
