November 22, 2021
As Platforms Wage War on Cybertheft, Crooks Turn to Low-Tech...

As online identity verification and transaction security improve, making it more difficult for cyberthieves to impersonate legit eCommerce customers, bad actors are reverting to low-tech “smash-and-grab” approaches more often, stealing...

November 08, 2021
Data Firm FiscalNote to Go Public via $1.3B SPAC

The data and analytics firm FiscalNote is planning to go public in a deal that could value the business at $1.3 billion and make its co-founder the youngest Asian-American CEO...

October 25, 2021
ACI Teams With RocketFuel To Power Cryptocurrency Merchant Payments

Real-time digital payments provider ACI Worldwide is partnering with cryptocurrency payments platform RocketFuel Blockchain to bring alternative currency payments capabilities to merchants around the globe. ACI Secure eCommerce will integrate...

October 14, 2021
Grove Launches New Division to Compete With Amazon Aggregators

The CBD and wellness company Grove, Inc. says it has launched a new division designed to acquire Amazon and eCommerce businesses. Called Upexi, this offshoot is designed to “take direct...

October 14, 2021
Digital Payments Platform AeroPay Enables Online Payments for Cannabis Dispensaries  

Digital payments platform AeroPay has joined forces with cannabis eCommerce provider Jane Technologies Inc. to enable digital payments through AeroPay for the more than 2,100 dispensaries and 300 companies selling...

October 13, 2021
CUSO HigherGrowth to Enable Cannabis Business Banking Services

California’s North Bay Credit Union has collaborated with Austin Capital Trust Company and Silicon Valley FinTech MRBD to form the credit union service organization (CUSO) HigherGrowth, the Credit Union Times...

October 06, 2021
California Jury Awards Mariguana Company Millions In Antitrust Case

A California jury handed down what has been reported to be the first antitrust jury verdict involving the cannabis industry. As the cannabis industry continues to grow and evolve, cannabis-related...

September 26, 2021
US House Committee to Consider Bill to Decriminalize Cannabis

The House has introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana, per the official text of the bill. The bill explains that those communities harmed the most by cannabis prohibition have benefited...

September 23, 2021
House Passes Cannabis Banking Initiative as Part of Defense Bill

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would protect banks that do business with cannabis companies in legal states from the...