November 03, 2018
The $5B Midterm Elections And The Big Costs Of Big...
Politics is not our normal beat here at PYMNTS. But the 2018 midterms has changed our thinking, and for one reason: 2018 will be one for the record books in terms of how much...
November 02, 2018
Tim Berners-Lee: Google, Facebook Might Need To Be Broken Up
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned that technology giants like Facebook and Google are now so dominant that they might need to be broken up. “What...
November 01, 2018
Apple NFC Is Center Of Debate For UK Brexit Digital...
Smartphones and NFC could help European citizens gain residency in the post-Brexit U.K. But there seems to be a hurdle, and it has to do with Apple — a story...
October 29, 2018
Seven Big Threats Facing Seven Big Tech And Payments Players...
Halloween, the annual celebration of the spooky and supernatural, is just a couple of days away. For many in payments and the vast ecosystem that it powers, the scariest thing...
October 24, 2018
Solving Digital ID Verification’s ‘Existential Crisis’
There's a tug of war when it comes to digital ID verification — a tug of war between the customer experience and reducing fraud. Socure Co-founder Johnny Ayers tells PYMNTS that...
October 21, 2018
EU: Facebook hires former deputy PM
Facebook has hired former UK Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg as head of its global affairs and communications team. The 51-year-old politician was leader of the Liberal Democrats and...
October 18, 2018
Apple Privacy Site Makes Data Transparent For Users
Apple is launching a portal that enables customers to find out what kind of data the company has kept on them. The portal, which was already tested in the European...
October 08, 2018
Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines
The impact of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) continues to take shape roughly five months after taking effect, and Facebook could be on the hook for billions of dollars...
October 08, 2018
Google Kept Google+ Data Breach Quiet
Google announced Monday (October 8) that it is shutting down Google+ after finding a security bug that made data on 500,000 users accessible to developers. In a blog post, Google...