Retailers. Brands. Consumers. Each stakeholder, with its own objectives and interests, plays a key role in the rapidly transforming, increasingly tech-savvy retail industry. And at the intersection of all three sits Jingit, the first real-time events-based payments and engagement platform, says Jingit’s CEO Kate Bolseth....
Ebay’s long history in E-Commerce (its Sept. 1995 launch made it one of the very first E-Commerce companies to launch, although Amazon’s July 1994 launch beat it by more than a year) has always been about consumer-to-consumer purchases. This week, it launched a geolocation-based app...
“When the going gets tough, the weird go pro.” Hunter S. Thompson “Gonzo journalist” Hunter Thompson sure captured the week in payments with that sentiment. Sometimes, it’s an absolute banner week in payments news. Other weeks are slow (but not lately, thanks to Apple Pay)....
Beacon executives at the ad:tech New York conference claim that nearly five million beacons will be deployed over the next five years. The execs did acknowledge that beacon adoption has been slower in the U.S. than in other geographies, but expect to see those difference...
It seems soon Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains could soon know the world of hurt that ride-sharing has already brough to the world’s taxi operators. Instead of offering a taxi service like Uber or Lyft, Tripda matches passengers and drivers (who are already planning travel)...
Q3 shaped up to be a tough quarter for Groupon – the online discount merchant turned e-retailer suffered a loss of $21.2 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $2.6 million. Revenues, however, were on the upswing – Groupon saw revenue...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his company’s three, five and 10-year-plans Tuesday (Oct. 28), and none of those plans involved Facebook launching its own payments engine. But that doesn’t rule out Facebook choosing to have a major influence, as Zuckerberg said the massive social operation...
Nobody in the real world likes failure. When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they plan to enjoy, not the many valuable lessons they will learn in the wake their inevitable failure – a reality is that 99.99...
France can now lay claim to an early social media person-to-person money transfer achievement, as French Twitter users can now Tweet cash to followers. A division of Groupe BPCS (France’s second-largest banking group) called S-money partnered with Twitter to make the move for anyone with...
