December 12, 2017
Inside Visa’s Vision For Cashless Commerce
At the dawn of the new millennium, consumers had only a few payment methods to choose from – cash, check or cards – and only a small fraction used them...
December 12, 2017
2017: The Year Retail Got Its Experiential Act Together
Some things about holiday shopping trends will never change, Mastercard’s Sarah Quinlan told Karen Webster in their annual discussion of the trends to watch for the holiday season. Women in 2017 will do...
December 12, 2017
TRENDING: Retail And The Power Of Real-Time Pricing
Ambitious retailers don’t want to stay locked in one lane, but rather to spread to new audiences, new product types and more — and payments-powering companies are stepping up to give...
December 11, 2017
US: Apple beats all for Shazam
Apple confirmed Monday, December 11, it is buying Shazam, a music recognition service that became an early favorite application of the smartphone era. Terms of the deal were not immediately...
December 11, 2017
US: Broadcom too chummy with Apple: Google, Microsoft?
With Broadcom’s Qualcomm buyout offer, Microsoft and Google have expressed private concerns over the potential purchase. That is, at least according to sources close to the matter. Both companies —...
December 11, 2017
Affirm Confirms $200M Investment Round
Financial services company Affirm announced Monday it has raised $200 million in Series E funding from a consortium of investors led by global investment firm GIC Private Limited. In a...
December 11, 2017
Apple To Acquire Shazam To Increase Music Subscriptions
Apple is looking to boost its music service subscriptions by acquiring Shazam for about $400 million. According to TechCrunch, media reports are saying that Apple is buying the music recognition app,...
December 07, 2017
Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays
Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for...
December 07, 2017
Discover Latest To Ditch Signatures At POS
Discover, the payments company, announced news on Wednesday (Dec. 6) that as of April 2018, customers will no longer be required to provide a payment signature when they make retail...
