The consumer is still chugging along, with undiminished appetite for goods and services, at least in the United States, according to the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. The newswire reported Thursday (Jan. 7) that the eponymous index has logged a new three-month high, with support coming...
PayPal has made its way into the Guinness World Records books — thanks to #GivingTuesday and charitable givers. PayPal announced yesterday (Jan. 7) that 2015 marked PayPal’s most charitable giving season for the company — ringing in at $857 million given from Nov. 27 through Dec....
Last September, reports surfaced that Apple was making a push to make its smart devices smarter and to do so was planning on going on a hiring spree in hopes to stay competitive with Google. Now, Apple is putting even more of an investment into the artificial...
While banks and security companies may be putting up their best efforts to fight off cyberthreats, the infection rates of banking Trojans remain on the rise, ZDNet reported Thursday (Jan. 7). Morten Kjaersgaard, CEO of Danish security company Heimdal, told ZDNet the usage of the...
In a world filled with smartphones and self-driving cars, the barcode seems like an archaic holdover of some other digital retail age. However, the scaling needs of retailers have uncovered some weaknesses in how merchants process barcodes, as well as some promising solutions. The Wall...
Just as the public equity markets began 2016 with a serious rout, now comes the news that unicorns are falling out of good graces with investors. As Reuters reported Thursday (Jan. 7), a relatively scant nine companies touched the much vaunted unicorn designation, with private...
MasterCard’s digital tokenized payment service, MasterPass, has landed in more taxis, with the help of Wirecard. Wirecard Singapore announced yesterday (Jan. 7) that it now supports ComfortDelGro Taxis’ digital payments using MasterPass. That taxi company is noteworthy for MasterCard’s digital payment solution because the transport company operates...
For the most part, companies take CES as an opportunity to show all the ways they’ll be different from their competitors over the next year. However, Microsoft and Samsung decided to bury at least one hatchet during a conference speech. During Samsung President Dr. Won-Pyo...
The Federal Trade Commission earlier this week released a report focused on Big Data. The report, titled “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding The Issues,” offered what Forbes said was a glimpse into the agency’s views on data and its management, especially...
