March Madness meets payments. Sort of. March Madness is all about busted brackets – this year anyway – and how the players who take the field help their team get to The Final Four – and then the National Championship. And the bragging rights that...
Banking on mobile devices is continuing to grow in popularity. The Federal Reserve released the results of a survey on Wednesday (March 30) that showed 43 percent of adults used their phones for financial activities, a number that has steadily increased. The number of survey...
As the political process lurches across the presidential primaries, a new survey by OnDeck, the online lending company, found that small business owners are less than optimistic about their November choices — no matter who winds up carrying the nominations and banners of their respective parties. Of...
Money is pouring into the venture capital space like there’s no tomorrow, but that may be the giddiness of a wild ride before motion sickness sets in. Here’s why dry powder may not get the spark that everyone expects and what that means for payments...
One plus One equals One Hundred. That’s the idea behind Braintree’s new Auth platform which launches today. Juan Benitez, Braintree’s GM and CTO, tells MPD CEO Karen Webster that since Auth makes it easy for Braintree merchants to more easily integrate with Braintree partners, merchants...
Square’s announcement yesterday that it would begin to process transactions for online merchants raised one big question: Why? Doing it put it square in competition with PayPal, Braintree, BlueSnap and Stripe — as well as the many other players whose platforms offer a turnkey solution...
Cloud-based app Slack showed heady growth through the latter half of last year, but Microsoft’s Office 365 still remained on top as the most popular cloud app geared toward businesses at 2015’s end. As reported by Re/code, that competitive dynamic was part of the findings in a report released...
Maybe employees aren’t as loyal when it comes to their work passwords as we’d like to believe. According to the SailPoint Market Pulse Survey, one in five employees would be willing to sell their workplace credentials for less than $1,000 — some would even settle for...
The hiring trend in the private sector managed to keep chugging on for a bit, showing in March that strength in the United States job market has not been derailed by slowdowns elsewhere across the globe. As The Wall Street Journal noted on Wednesday (March 30), the...
