Desktop news and trends

OpenFin’s Plans To Bridge The Financial Services Desktop App Gap
Innovation // May 28, 2019

Building and deploying new apps for the financial desktops that keep Wall Street humming can be friction-filled endeavors. Traders and analysts juggle tasks across several platforms, and interoperability is elusive. Fresh off a new funding round, OpenFin CEO Mazy Dar tells Karen Webster why his firm...

Firefox Gets Into Browser-Based Deal Tracking Business
Merchant Innovation // November 13, 2018

Mozilla has announced that the Firefox Test Pilot team is launching Price Wise and Email Tabs in time for the holiday season, giving users more choice and transparency when shopping online. “These game-changing desktop tools are sure to make shopping a breeze with more options...

3D Secure 2.0’s Six Pillars
Mobile Payments // August 24, 2017

Like Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0, and Vegetables 2.0 (And, yes, that’s a thing. Have you ever had fried brussels sprouts?), 3D-Secure 2.0 is also taking something in need of an upgrade and making it better. In this case, though, that upgrade comes to a security...

Billion-Dollar Desktop Days Hits Record Streak
Retail // December 19, 2016

Online shopping from desktop computers has hit a major milestone this holiday season. According to comScore, the number of consecutive billion-dollar sales days has hit a record of 19 days since Thanksgiving, which blows last year’s record of nine consecutive billion-dollar days out of the...

Interviews & Exclusives
OpenFin’s Plans To Bridge The Financial Services Desktop App Gap

May 28, 2019
Building and deploying new apps for the financial desktops that keep Wall Street humming can be friction-filled endeavors. Traders and analysts juggle tasks across several platforms, and interoperability is elusive. Fresh off a new funding round, OpenFin CEO Mazy Dar tells Karen Webster why his firm is building the operating system for finance firms.

3D Secure 2.0’s Six Pillars

August 24, 2017
Like Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0, and Vegetables 2.0 (And, yes, that’s a thing. Have you ever had fried brussels sprouts?), 3D-Secure 2.0 is also taking something in need of an...

Quick Reads
Facebook Launches Desktop Messenger Video Chat

April 02, 2020
The desktop version of popular app Facebook Messenger has arrived on Mac and Windows computers, letting people communicate via video chat during a time when everyone is using that means of communication. Video chat and other similar modes of connection have become a lifeline for millions as the coronavirus’ high contagion rate has forced everyone […]

Firefox Gets Into Browser-Based Deal Tracking Business

November 13, 2018
Mozilla has announced that the Firefox Test Pilot team is launching Price Wise and Email Tabs in time for the holiday season, giving users more choice and transparency when shopping...

Mobile Commerce Expected To Down This Holiday Season

September 26, 2016
Mobile may be all the rage, especially with the launch of the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, but it turns out consumers don’t use it as much, at...

Despite Reports, Desktop Internet Is Alive And Well

May 27, 2015
Though the imminent death of desktop computing at the hands of a newly ascendent mobile has become a popular story over the last few years, as it turns out, those...