John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, has some advice to offer the big financial services firms facing the big digital transition. Speaking at the annual Money 20/20 conference, Sculley’s message was nothing if not dire — he noted that the incumbent financial services firms are in...
The world is full of once-brilliant innovations that — despite having been supplanted by an even better innovation — continue to have devotees who insist the 1.0 version was actually superior: Writers who prefer the feel of a typewriter to a computer. Music aficionados who swear that...
DocuSign’s ability to make it easy for customers to simply and instantly create an electronic signature has done two things — one of them is helpful for the up-and-coming tech firm, one not so much. Helpfully, it has allowed the firm to build up a $3 billion...
The team at PayPal is waking up to another chipper post-earnings morning today as the firm announces another quarter with a lot of green arrows: revenue was up, and so were profits, active accounts and transactions. Especially transactions, but more on that in a second. Other...
The inspiration for payments innovation can sometimes come from unlikely places — like investing in bagels only to have an anti-carb diet craze take the market by storm months later. But Tom Villante, CEO and founder of YapStone, didn’t let it get him down. Villante...
Testing payments is a necessary part of the business, yet a challenging one to address. Inadequate software testing can have dire consequences, but the increased complexity in payments testing has caused many institutions to overlook its importance. Iliad Solutions is looking at a new way...
Giving stadium operators a way to make the fan experience better comes down to data and devices — data that can match consumer behavior with relevant offers and incentives and devices that power the software that makes it all flow. First Data EVP Dan Charron...
LG and Paymentwall are teaming up to bring payments to television. On Tuesday (Oct. 4), the two companies announced plans to create apps that will enable LG webOS Smart TVs in over 200 countries to support more than 140 different payment methods. The partnership is...
Salesforce is launching Demandware’s rebranded software as the Salesforce Commerce Cloud, which supports Apple Pay. The CRM technology space is becoming increasingly crowded, and firms are jostling for position, while Salesforce is also eyeing Twitter.
