Home Depot has almost finished rolling out 40,000 of its custom FIRST Phone smartphones to in-store employees — and the new-generation devices are slowly beginning to line up with industry standards, according to employee descriptions of the phones. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
“Kill switches” are proving deadly to smartphone theft, which has dropped by half in London, 40 percent in San Francisco and 25 percent in New York City in the year after Apple added a kill switch to the iPhone, Reuters reported. Get the Full Story...
Wells Fargo is making “cash back” as literal as possible, allowing customers to cash out their credit card rewards right at the ATM. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
A new government agency is being formed to protect the U.S. from cyberattacks in both the public and private sector. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
The iOS 8.3 operating system has a lot of new developments that should make Apple users happy. CarPlay is being upgraded so iOS can be operated on the car dashboard without need of a USB port, and the Xcode 6.3 operating system now comes with...
The only travel involving Priceline that IBM plans to take is to the U.S. District Court in Delaware. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
Tired of having to get out of the car in the middle of winter to pay for gas? Thanks to a new partnership between PayPal and Shell, payments for filling up can now be done via smartphones, sources from both companies announced. Get the Full...
Since the economic downturn of 2008, the lending industry has undergone a sea change of sorts, as established banks rethink their lending practices, as well as who receives the loans. While payday lending is seeing disruption by companies like SimpleFi, high-end pawnbroking is also experiencing a...
As reported in VentureBeat on Feb. 10, restaurant locator and media site Yelp announced that it has bought out online food ordering company Eat24. The deal, which was closed on Feb. 9 after approval from both companies’ executive directors, was for $75 million in cash and 1.4...
