Iyzico, the Turkish startup that enables eCommerce sites and other apps to accept online payments, completed a $15 million round of fundraising Monday (April 3). According to a report in TechCrunch, the Series C round was led by Vostok Emerging Finance and included Amadeus Capital Partners...
Lloyds Bank of the U.K. announced it is gearing up to reduce the square footage of hundreds of its branches, and in some instances, it’s getting rid of the counter service sections. According to a report, the new so-called micro branches will be staffed with...
WeChat, the China-based social media and messaging service, is aiming to expand in Europe and the U.S. to develop a payment service and lure new advertisers. According to a report in Bloomberg, WeChat, which is owned by China’s Tencent, is opening an office in the...
That the retail world has changed very quickly and fundamentally in the last several years is no longer up for debate. The digital age has spawned customers that are incredibly knowledgeable about — and always connect to — commerce. The number of potential touchpoints a retailer has with consumers...
App Annie, the research firm, is predicting Apple will lose its first place position over Android, based on revenue from mobile apps during 2017. According to a press release highlighting new research, for 2017 consumer spend in Android stores will surpass the App Store, driven...
Big Data may be everywhere, but that doesn’t mean that companies are able to actually get the most out of it in an efficient and scalable way. With the notion that the world’s flow of computable information would eventually become the oil of the twenty-first century,...
Microsoft announced this week that Cortana, its voice assistant that it rolled out a year ago on Android and iOS devices in the U.S. and more recently in the U.K., can now be seen on the Android lock screen, giving users the ability to glance...
Clarity Money, the personal finance app, has reportedly raised $11 million in venture capital funding, which it will use to expand its team and offerings. According to a report, RRE Ventures and Citi Ventures led the Series B round of funding. With the latest round...
Google is using its Google Home internet-connected speaker to serve up ads in what could be the start of showing ads more in its internet-enabled speaker. According to a report in Bloomberg, last week Bryson Meunier, an online search executive at digital ticket seller Vivid...
