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Euro Startups Find Raising Money Tough
December 31, 2014

European tech startups struggle to raise investment money compared with companies based in Silicon Valley and New York, The New York Times reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Mobile
It’s Not A Movie, It’s Banking Malware
December 31, 2014

While the movie “The Interview” — the gross-out comedy that apparently triggered a massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures by North Korea — earned $15 million in its first weekend of online distribution, there’s been another “Interview”-related payday as well: A mobile app pretending to download the...

Apple Pay
Cyberthieves Will Target Apple Pay, ATMs And Banks In 2015
December 31, 2014

Apple Pay, ATMs and even traditional B2B financial-transfer systems will be the top targets of a new wave of payments-oriented cyberattacks in 2015, according to predictions by security vendor Kaspersky Labs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

2014’s Worst Currency: Bitcoin
December 30, 2014

The technology may be fascinating and the promotion may be relentless, but, as a currency investment, Bitcoin performed worse in 2014 than any of the 175 currencies tracked by Bloomberg, according to Bloomberg View. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

China’s Biggest Developer Buys Payments Processor 99Bill
December 30, 2014

China’s number-four online payments processor, 99Bill, is now under the control of the country’s largest real estate developer, Dalian Wanda Group, the International Business Times reported on Friday (Dec. 26). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

International
Apple Dominated In New Christmas Mobile Devices
December 30, 2014

More than half the new mobile devices activated during the week leading up to Christmas Day were from Apple, according to a study by mobile analytics company Flurry. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

International
More Shoppers Go Global
December 26, 2014

Cross-border e-commerce has grown so quickly that 25 percent of PayPal’s transactions are now international, with about 2,000 cross-border transactions per minute, according to the Associated Press. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

International
Alibaba Spent $160M Fighting Fakes Since 2013
December 24, 2014

Alibaba has spent more than $160 million (1 billion yuan) combating counterfeit goods and improving customer protection since the start of 2013, the company said Tuesday (Dec. 23). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

UK And The Mobile (Commerce) Invasion
December 23, 2014

241 years ago last week, the British colonies in North America decided to spark the Revolutionary War by disrupting commerce. This was not disruption in the positive modern sense, it was old school disruption involving a lot of very expensive tea going into Boston Harbor....