Beware the Amazon Effect, where competitors’ stocks slide on the merest hint that Amazon wants a piece of their pie. Unless you’re a short seller...
Retailers are bullish on the holiday shopping season thanks to consumer optimism, but a bigger factor affecting their end-of-year sales could be the great expectations...
As the famous line from “Cabaret” goes, money makes make the world go round. Though much of the world has changed since Fred Ebb wrote...
The pressure to come up with the next “big idea” can often overshadow the opportunity to deliver the best answer to the problem, says Rudolf...
Legacy banking systems are, well, legacy systems. Robust, but notoriously inflexible and slow to change. That’s a problem for financial institutions looking to grow revenue...
Acquisitions tend to generate a lot of heat and headlines when first announced — usually accompanied by the perfunctory press releases about potential being unlocked and all...
Pokémon GO has literally become a total mobile game-changer. Consumers have flocked to the game in epic proportions and with a level of passion that’s...
Banks, especially big ones, aren’t all that interested in lending money to SMBs. That, since 2008 or so, has been the conventional wisdom. While access...
Can a rent payment be its own reward? The latest issue of the Payments as a Service Tracker™ features an interview with Philipp Postrehovsky, founder...