January 04, 2017
Reliance On Card Data ‘Sneak Peeks’ Is Making Retail Stocks...

Once upon a time, investors in retail stocks counted cars in parking lots, measured mall foot traffic and kept an eye out for discounts to keep track of what the...

December 31, 2016
PYMNTS’ 2017 New Year’s Resolutions

Au revoir, 2016! It’s been nice knowing you. For Auld Lang Syne and all that. As PYMNTS puts away our party noisemakers until next year and throws out our novelty...

December 30, 2016
What Hit — And Missed — In 2016

When it comes down to writing year-in-review roundups about what surged and what didn’t in any given year, the challenge is always in not omitting something important or miscategorizing something...

December 29, 2016
Boohoo Eyes Nasty Gal For $20M

One Los Angeles retail brand that filed for bankruptcy in November may be getting a new British owner. Boohoo.com has eyes on California-based Nasty Gal, which filed for bankruptcy protection...

December 22, 2016
Amazon Tracker: Battle Lines Drawn

This week in the Amazon Tracker, Amazon continues to push out globally, expanding its scale and a long list of offerings. As it does, battle lines are being drawn as...

December 20, 2016
MetLife Launching Virtual Reality Service In India

MetLife announced Monday (Dec. 19) that PNB MetLife, its joint venture partnership in India, launched conVRse, an on-demand virtual reality (VR) customer service platform that it claims is first of...

December 19, 2016
Bitcoin: From Store Of Value To Value At Store?

Commodity. Currency. A hybrid of the two. Where you stand on bitcoin determines how you use it, but as Gene Kavner, founder and CEO of iPayYou notes in the latest PYMNTS Topic...

December 16, 2016
Papa John’s Delivers Online Ordering To The TV Screen

Whether it’s gathering to watch a live football game or settling in for a binge session of Netflix’s latest hit show, in many cases, these situations involve consumers ordering food....

December 15, 2016
GoFundMe Raised $3B For Crowdfunding Campaigns, Company Says

The crowdfunding platform released its second annual giving report on Tuesday (Dec. 13), which stated the company has helped campaigns to raise more than $3 billion since the site launched...