There’s a very easy way for retailers of all sizes to allow their own customers to spread the word about their products and experiences -- yet, for the most part, only the bigger names are taking advantage of it. PYMNTS provides 5 examples of how...
The draft version of the U.K. government’s new Investigatory Powers Bill was published today, which if passed into law, will establish a new set of surveillance powers and allow security and intelligence agencies to have greater access to the websites visited by Internet users over...
Though Cyber Monday and a perennially longer holiday shopping season have siphoned some of the traditional hype away from Black Friday, there are still plenty of shoppers who cut coupons and camp out for deals the day after Thanksgiving. However, the number of retailers planning...
Securing a consumer’s loyalty to the brand is only as good as a retailer’s ability to keep their data secure. We take a look at recent events that prove that building the ideal customer experience — and keeping customers coming back — goes hand-in-hand with...
The team at PayPal cleared a corporate milestone this week with its first-ever standalone earnings report. PayPal managed to split the difference when it came to analysts’ pre-release earnings estimates, missing on one metric and exceeding another. Analysts expected net revenue of $2.27 billion, which PayPal...
In the age of digital commerce, what platform content appears on might have as much of an impact on sales as the content itself. As a result, platform owners like Google and Apple have big decisions to make when it comes to pricing new services...
Will consumers pay nearly $400 for a Coke? That’s the bet that Keurig is making with its release of its at-home cold beverage machine, Keurig Kold. The company believes that it can succeed where SodaStream fizzled out with consumers, who will of course have the...
There is a old joke among small business owners about the best way to secure a loan from a bank: just go in and convince a loan officer that your business absolutely does not need one. Admittedly, it is a piece of humor not...
As the good people at Morton Salt first said in 1911, “when it rains, it pours.” And last week that rain came in the form of IPOs, with big updates from Square, big news for the widely coveted Worldpay and something of a big letdown for...
