After helping several start-ups find funding, CircleUp has brought in some dollars for itself in the form of $14 million in venture capital funding. The round was led by first-time investor Canaan Partners, Google Ventures had previously invested in the company. CircleUp connects small consumer and...
Travel and expense management software provider Certify says a majority of companies surveyed reported higher spending on travel last year than in 2012, and about half expect to spend more this year. Top management pain point? You guessed it: Employees failing to submit reports on...
Oti is no startup when it comes to finding cashless payments solutions for the industries that need them, but is has been busy refocusing its energy, and NFC payments is one of the key driver’s behind its latest initiatives. Its efforts paid off last week...
Commerce networks used to be point-to-point. But cloud, social, mobile and big data technologies have made B2B interactions “many-to-many,” a report shows. Read More.
MasterCard said it was changing U.S. rules to provide greater transparency for smaller merchants.
Tradeshift, a platform connecting half a million buyers and suppliers globally, saw sales jump 400 percent last year, CEO and co-founder Christian Lanng said. It’s a figure that suggests the Dane was right when he thought that business as usual, especially in global trade, was...
Startup Donde is working to help drive retail sales for consumers who want to find convenient, nearby locations to make their purchases. Founder and CEO Anthony Nicalo, in a podcast interview with Karen Webster, CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, explained the general idea behind the...
By: Eileen Goode (@eileengoode) When businesses are paying each other, checks remain the dominant vehicle, representing on average nearly half of all B2B payments. Their primacy, however, is slipping. In 2004, 81 percent of payments were made by check, but by 2013 the rate had...
OTI has launched a consumer-oriented automatic payment solution for gas stations. EasyFuel Plus is similar to an OTI offering for commercial purposes. It features a contactless reader attached to a vehicle’s fuel inlet. Once the driver begins refilling, the payment process is activated automatically. “This...
