With Amazon in the business of selling everything, Alibaba advancing on Amerian shores and Walmart rapidly gaining ground as an eCommerce force of nature, it can seem that small eTailers not packing millions in their marketing budget can be at a disadvantage too severe to...
Walmart’s low price guarantee, wherein the company will match a lower advertised competitor’s price, has one interesting exception—it’s own website. Such was the lesson an Atlanta shopper recently learned, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution, when attempting to purchase Legos for his son, first online and then in-store. What the...
Digital banking has been slower to ignite in the U.K. than originally predicted, according to a survey from Accenture. Despite the fact that British banks have been shuttering branches in response to the reported growing popularity of digital channels, as it turns out, British consumers...
Fighting the trend that has seen millennial consumers—those aged 18 to 34—increasingly pulled away from traditional banking channels in favor of all digital methods of storing, moving and using money like Google Wallet or PayPal; one Chicago area bank is officially rolling out a digital...
Oberthur Technologies (OT) and SecureKey will be collaborating on a range of online authentication solutions that could make entering passwords a thing of the past. Based on SecureKey’s bridge.net™ Connect cloud-based digital identity management platform and leveraging OT’s online security expertise, mobile operators will be...
Though it could have gone down in history alongside the Twinkie defense as creatively ludicrous defenses in a criminal trial, the judge in the Silk Road trial has struck down the “Bitcoin isn’t money, and without money their can be no money laundering” defense that...
Want to really know why mobile payments struggle to ignite? Bad design. At least that’s what Seattle-based startup Artifact says and why it is has created an entirely new payments form factor that fits on your wrist, is biometric, supports Beacon, enables payments and makes...
As Amazon, Alibaba and eBay get bigger, it’s often tempting to assume that SMBs don’t stand a chance at competing. Meritus has a different point of view that starts with raising the “payments intelligence” of SMBs thru a suite of tools that ultimately help them...
New Nielsen research suggests consumers max out at 26 or so apps a month – which means commerce and payments apps have to be amazingly compelling to pry eyeballs from games and other software. Other than hiring George Clooney or Kate Upton as apps spokespeople,...
