It will never be said of Apple that they lacked a flair for the dramatic – and hitting the U.S. public market’s first $1 trillion market cap two decades after it stood on the brink of bankruptcy was a pretty good twist as far as endings go....
While generally aiming to be friction-free, a bit of striking out, a touch of competition and, perhaps, a slightly looming threat of disruption can have a stimulating impact. Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can...
It is easy to get taken in by appearances, which, as the old saying goes, can be deceiving. For example, it can be hard to tell who is financially stable and who is financially struggling, since the consumers most people assume are struggling are actually in...
Healthcare is a massive market in the United States – the insurance industry alone is valued in the trillions of dollars. And yet, as Collective Health Co-founder and Chief Health Officer Rajaie Batniji recently told PYMNTS, the industry needs some curative care itself, as navigating payments is expensive...
For businesses, workers and consumers all over the world, the best time for a payment is right now – if at all possible. Unlocking faster payments has an undeniable effect, as Tipalti has seen very quick adoption since rolling out an early payment option with Vindeo. But faster and...
Good partnerships – Abbott and Costello, Jobs and Wozniak, chocolate and peanut butter – can change the world. When combined, the two individual elements can become more than the mere combination of their parts. But, of course, one has to pick the right partners. The wrong PoS...
Normal operating procedure for consumers on the eve of the 2020s is incredibly different than it was on the eve of the 2010s – and it’s almost unrecognizable from the eve of the millennium. Consumers shop, bank, work and get paid differently than they ever...
A visit to a local bookshop (or to Amazon, more realistically for many of us) and a brief perusal of the self-help section will give one access to hundreds of options for improvement. That is unless the shopper is online, in which case they might...
Going digital, optimizing for mobile and chasing the great connected commerce change-over are the prescribed solutions for a wide variety of problems. Sometimes quite wisely – digitizing B2B payments make them faster, cheaper, less friction-filled and more transparent to all sides of a transaction. It’s what consumers...
