Saturday Feature

What ‘The Simpsons,’ Art And Millennials Have In Common

What ‘The Simpsons,’ Art And Millennials Have In Common
What ‘The Simpsons,’ Art And Millennials Have In Common
April 06, 2019  |  Retail

The art world can be a strange place. While this is a fact well-known to art collectors, even non-collectors got a taste of just how weird things...

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Putting A Famous Face To A Product
Putting A Famous Face To A Product
March 30, 2019  |  Retail

Celebrity-backed brands are nothing new. As PYMNTS has previously reported, the original celebrity-endorsed products date back as the far as the 1760s, when the British royal family...

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Space: The Final Travel Commerce Frontier
Space: The Final Travel Commerce Frontier
March 23, 2019  |  Retail

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life...

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The Great Facebook Fumble – And The Economic Damage Done
The Great Facebook Fumble – And The Economic Damage Done
March 16, 2019  |  Internet of Things

Every day, in nearly every corner of the world, 1.4 billion people log onto Facebook and 500 million people log onto Instagram. On Wednesday (March 13), that audience...

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The Tie That Binds? The Royal Instagram And Brexit Preppers
The Tie That Binds? The Royal Instagram And Brexit Preppers
March 09, 2019  |  Cross-border Payments

Over the centuries, the British have gained a reputation for a certain steadiness of character, best epitomized via the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster commissioned...

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Cracking Down On The Counterfeit Culture
Cracking Down On The Counterfeit Culture
March 02, 2019  |  Retail

All Deborah Copaken really wanted was a warm coat. A good coat. A Canada Goose coat. Sure, it cost more than $900 – but she rationalized...

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Venmo, Girl Scouts And Bitcoin: The Week In Unexpected Upsides
Venmo, Girl Scouts And Bitcoin: The Week In Unexpected Upsides
February 23, 2019  |  News

Usually when we talk about unintended consequences here at PYMNTS, we are talking about something that has gone terribly wrong, or at least failed to...

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Amazon HQ2, JPM Coin And The Weird, Wild Week Of Payments’ Left Turns
Amazon HQ2, JPM Coin And The Weird, Wild Week Of Payments’ Left Turns
February 16, 2019  |  News

There is no such thing as a boring week in payments, of course. Every seven-day period is good for at least one unexpected twist. But this week...

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