Saturday Feature

Innovation Trix You Can Learn From Breakfast Children’s Cereal

For all the plaudits disruptive innovation gets, it is easy to overlook how hard it is to achieve. First of all, new...

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Are You Ready For Some Football (Commerce)?

Well, we had a totally different intro written for this piece before the New England Patriots blew it on Thursday night and...

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Back-To-School: The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

In 1996 — 21 years ago — Staples created and released one of the greatest television commercials in human history. Yes, we know that is a bold claim, particularly for...

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The Eclipse Is Coming! So Much To See, So Much To Buy

On Monday, hundreds of millions of Americans will take a two-hour break to watch something that hasn’t happened in 99 years: a total solar eclipse. For those who don’t...

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This Time, We Want You To Drink The Kool-Aid

Kool-Aid kind of gets a bum rap. After all, it’s pretty hard to stay relevant for 90 years – in the food and drink...

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Safety and Security

The Lighter Side Of Commerce Crime

boulCrime doesn’t pay. It’s a lesson that kids learn from their parents at an early age. And it’s a concept that an...

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O.J. And The Mysterious Marketplace For Memorabilia

In something that felt like a throwback to the 1990s, O.J. Simpson was, once again, all over the news. This time, the news-worthy event...

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Why Shopping Online May Be The Only Truly Safe Summer Activity

Summer – the season of fun, sun, beaches, ice cream and blockbuster movie premieres – is also the most dangerous time of the year, according to the...

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Statistics

Independence Day 2017 – By The Numbers

In just a few days, Americans will both settle into the swing of summer and celebrate the 241st anniversary of the day...

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Internet of Things

IoT Meets Yoga Pants

Pants. Most people wear them at some point, but few of us spend much time wondering if pants are living up to...

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The Modern Cure For The Summertime Blues

In 1966 Eddie Corcoran sang, “There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues,” which is a rather dark pronouncement of an otherwise pretty cheerful time...

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What We All Learned – And Are Still Learning – From The Summer Of Love

Tune In. Turn On. Drop Out. Those six words, spoken by Timothy Leary In Golden Gate park at the 300,000 person Human...

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Millionaires, Millennials And The Great Avocado Debate

It was a week of controversy for the ages – battle lines were drawn, allegiances were declared and ad hominem attacks were...

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Consumer Insights

Need A Mother’s Day Gift? Try A Lease

This year, Americans will spend over $23 billion telling their moms just how much they mean to them for Mother’s Day this...

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Mobile

What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Millennials

Millennials as a generation are probably the most speculated and talked-about generation in human history. A reality that is not entirely unwarranted....

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Commerce

Super-Sizing Commerce For The Super Bowl

For sports fans, particularly football lovers, the real Christmas comes tomorrow. Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking...

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Economy

More Americans Say They Will Die Debt-Free

Debt is something of a strange topic for Americans. For all but the most well-capitalized early in life, the ability to borrow...

The Boys Who Tried To Disrupt Santa Claus

A Tribute To A Poem By Ogden Nash In Silicon Valley there lived some boys, Who loved inventing brand new toys....

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In Depth

Payments And Commerce: A Year In Quotes

This week marked the 181th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens — or, as he he is better known to...

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Reading Like A Boss (Literally)

At the end of the year, there will be a minor competition to see what 2016 was “the year of.” Depending on...

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Security & Fraud

Inside The SAT Goldmine

Most people will never once think about their SAT score once they’ve submitted it to the college of their choice. But for...

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International

Pokémon GO: Game-Changing Game Or High-Tech Pet Rock?

A little over 40 years ago, the Pet Rock was a national phenomenon. The Pet Rock was the brainchild of an advertising...

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Payments Innovation

Payments Believe It Or Not

In 1918 a journalist named Robert Ripley animated a panel of “amazing facts,” most of which were about sports. Hence the name,...

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Payment Methods

How To Celebrate Emoji Day

For those looking for something to celebrate this weekend, the world hasn’t really come through. Sure, maybe you can throw an off-the-wall unboxing party...

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The Stats of Summer

Every season has a certain defining characteristic. Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter...

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Father’s Day, Commerce And The New Millennial Dad

Pop culture loves moms, pretty much unequivocally. Dads? Well dads are a little more complicated. There are “Father Knows Best” dads —...

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Payments Innovation

PYMNTS’ Summer Reading List

While the “official” start of summer — the one marked by the passing of the summer solstice — is still about a month...

Shop When You’re Sad Like Brad Pitt

Retail therapy — that’s something that’s just for the ladies, right? Wrong. No greater example of manliness than Brad Pitt reportedly engaged...

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Beyoncé’s Platform Ignition Strategy

At PYMNTS we get to see and comment on any number of ignition strategies for any number of platforms. Some are brilliant....

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Security & Fraud

Ashley Madison’s Bad Breach Break-Up

Schadenfreude, the German word for joy at the pain or misery of others, is one of the more perfect lingual creations of...

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Payments Innovation

Happy Birthday, Mr. President (Jefferson)

Everyone loves Alexander Hamilton these days. The “ten dollar founding father without a father” is, shockingly, super trendy these days. The musical...

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How Cartoons Inspired The Future Of Tech

If we’re being honest with ourselves, 16 years into the 21st century, it is easy to be a little bit disappointed. ...

Easter Commerce Hops All Over The Place

U.S. consumers are in line to spend more than ever before surrounding the Easter holiday — $17.3 billion, according to a new...

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Can Customer Loyalty Be Measured In Free Burritos?

In business there are few hard and fast rules. What works brilliantly in one context can miss terribly in another. However, “few”...

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Mobile Commerce

The Coming Apps-ocalypse

In the early days of the smartphone, apps came upon consumers like tiny technological miracles sent from heaven to make their lives...

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Payments And Commerce On The Campaign Trail

It is safe to say that the PYMNTS team members are not exactly political junkies or rapid partisans. A highly unscientific poll...

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Cybercrime’s Biggest Deterrent: Old People

There was a popular Internet scam going around the Web about five years ago that preyed on middle-aged and older people in...

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Security & Fraud

The Week In Hacks

Fascination with the inner workings of the U.S. government is almost never at what anyone would call a fever pitch. There are...

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Social Commerce

Inside The $620M Super Bowl

“Even now I know what you are thinking!” Those are the words of “The Amazing Kreskin” — mentalist, comedian and self-proclaimed mind...

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Payments And Commerce’s Odd Jobs

It has not been an easy week for many, many people out there. But for some, it has been the sort of...

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Mobile Commerce

The Food Delivery Wars: A Little Bit Of History Repeating?

It is surprisingly easy to look down on the reasoning people used in the past while making the exact same errors in...

Amazon One If By Land … Two Zillion If By Sea

If one’s entire reference for a company’s relative level of success were the verdict of public markets day in and day out,...

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Why Fitbit’s Troubles Could Give Payments Peeps Pause

Fitbit is not having the best imaginable week. The good news about that is that there are very few players who might...

Payments And Commerce 2016 New Year’s Resolutions

It’s official — 2015 is a thing of the past and the whole of 2016 yawns widely before us. Which means...

Facebook On Fire!

There are many ways to decorate for the holidays. For some folks it is all about classical looks, simple white lights and...