What can the Ripple protocol do that basic core banking infrastructure can’t? Move money in real time, efficiently, securely and at a lower cost. The Ripple protocol was recently adopted by Fidor AG bank in Germany to increase the speed at which money could move...
Verizon Networkfleet and J.J. Keller have announced a partnership to create a GPS-enabled fleet management device for regional and longhaul trucking. “Due to increased regulatory scrutiny aimed at keeping the roads safer — including a potential regulation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requiring...
The Western Union Company has announced the launch of its dedicated business payments unit as part of its expanded its services in Malaysia. “SMEs are vital to the Malaysian economy, they already contribute nearly one-third of gross domestic product and account for one-fifth of exports,” said Western...
ReadSoft has announced the launch of their new mobile app at the 2014 SAPPHIRE Annual Conference. The app provides ReadSoft users access to SAP features that are now consolidated and unified, as well as access to a value-added supplier portal. Called Process Director, the new...
For most of the twentieth century, the most widely used non-cash payment form was checks. Now seen as relatively inefficient, check use overall has waned in favor of electronic methods with the goal of making the payment system more efficient, less time consuming and less...
Despite the movement to electronics payments and alternative currencies and a shift in the digital age, companies still need to accept cash, but it actually comes at a cost. With governments and businesses realizing the true costs of cash, will there be a greater switch...
Israel-based supplier of ruggedized mobile data terminals Micronet has completed an agreement to acquire the mobile resource management/fleet management division of Beijer Electronics. Micronet will buy all related intellectual property, product rights, customer base, sales and marketing network, and technical support, as well as production facilities. With...
6Sense wants to help sales forces more effectively predict their leads, specifically the company hopes to offer the kind of predictive lead scoring that will allow a salesforce to determine what types of leads are the most likely to buy. That doesn’t make them terribly...
OLSET wants to make travel better for the business people who have the duty of planning their own travel through online sites, and they have $1.1 million in new seed funding to make that happen. The platform not only allows business travelers to search for accommodations...
