October 19, 2015
Q3 2015’s Data Bonanza
Our Data Digest this week is fueled by the onslaught of Q3 2015 reports coming out these days, but it’s far more than bank earnings that are being tracked. In...
October 16, 2015
New Trends Emerge In Uber, Airbnb For Corporate Travel
Certify has released its latest quarterly travel and expense management report, and the data suggests an interesting trend in corporate travel. The company’s SpendSmart report for Q3 2015 finds where...
October 16, 2015
Instant Pay Now Available For Uber Drivers
A new banking service for self-employed Americans is making its debut with Uber. Yesterday (Oct. 15), Clearbanc launched instant pay for Uber drivers, wherein — instead of having to wait...
October 16, 2015
Verifone Levels The Playing Field For Taxis
Long before the days of Uber and Lyft, Verifone made card payments possible for taxis. Now, with its major acquisition of ride-hailing app Curb, Verifone is making those payments invisible...
October 15, 2015
Uber Drivers’ Data Gets Breached
Ride-hailing outfit Uber inadvertently released data tied to hundreds of its drivers, a deluge that included everything from scans of drivers’ licenses, Social Security numbers and other data. Motherboard, citing...
October 12, 2015
LivingSocial Goes Real-Time For Beauty Booking
“Real time” is one of the biggest buzzwords in today’s payments and commerce ecosystem. Now, LivingSocial is piloting a new program for select customers to test out FastBook, its new...
October 10, 2015
What Went Wrong At Experian (And How It Could At...
As almost everyone knows, the credit rating firm Experian closed off last week with every business’ least favorite headline: They’d been breached to the tune of 15 million T-Mobile customers’...
October 09, 2015
Lyft’s Real-Time Payments Play To Pay Drivers Quicker
Ride-sharing is a business model based on timelines, and soon, for drivers of one company in the space, that notion will extend to how they get paid. Yesterday (Oct. 8),...
October 08, 2015
Did Lyft’s CTO Hack Uber?
While it’s still unclear who was behind a data breach that ultimately compromised the names and license numbers of nearly 50,000 Uber drivers back in 2014, the company is on...
