Vesta Corp., which focuses on card-not-present (CNP) transactions, said on Tuesday (April 19) that it has released a new whitepaper titled “5 Challenges Merchants Must Address Now.” The firm said that there have been shifts in consumer preferences in payments, while, at the same time,...
Craigslist is a remarkable living time capsule of the Internet Age — not only because it looks like it still runs off a Geocities template but because its business model hasn’t changed to any great degree since it started. What goes up must come down,...
If the news of the last few days is any indication, a sufficiently advanced chatbot will soon be worth its digital weight in gold in the world of automated customer service. For Line, that’s all the more reason to get in the game. Financial Times...
America is a “more is more” kind of place. The people that brought the world the cowboy cut ribeye, supersizing it, the 10-gallon hat and the McMansion are not known for going small. It is not our way. Most of the time. The exception to that seems...
New analysis from Bizrate Insights indicate that online purchases on mobile devices are growing quickly, and have been for about two years. To mobile watchers and commerce enthusiasts that insight likely comes as little surprise. Somewhat more surprising perhaps is how many holdouts there out...
Linguists aren’t sure anybody actually said the phrase “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” until “The Godfather Part II,” but that hasn’t stopped Apple and Samsung from teaming up for the next iPhone. Two Korean-language sources, The Korean Herald and Hankyung are reporting via AppleInsider and...
It is not a good time to be working in traditional taxis in L.A., as the last three years have seen taxi usage plummet 30 percent in three years. According to recent reports, Uber and Lyft are behind the precipitous drop-off, which has seen taxi...
Until about a couple of weeks ago, bots were mostly thought of as the last four letters of a word that began with “ro” and a concept that even Alphabet decided might not be ready for prime time. Well, that is unless you’re in Japan...
While cities and their local transportation authorities have been taking many blows from on-demand car service apps Uber and Lyft in the last few years, it seems some cities are starting to hit back with force. As The Wall Street Journal reports, San Francisco has...
