August 15, 2016
Intuit And Revel Simplify Payments Food Chain
Butcher, baker, beauty and style maker. Intuit and Revel are expanding their POS partnership and will now serve grocers and salons. Each vertical has specific needs that Intuit Payments Director John Shapiro...
August 11, 2016
Airbnb’s Valuation Spike, And IPO Chatter Redux
In unicorn land, one of the biggest beasts just got a lot bigger. That would be Airbnb, of course, which in its latest capital raise of $850 million fetched an...
August 11, 2016
BMW Launches New App To Help People Be On Time
BMW announced on Wednesday (Aug. 10) the launch of BMW Connected, a new app that melds the car with a user’s digital device, whether it’s an iPhone or an Apple...
August 08, 2016
Alibaba Doesn’t View Amazon As The Competition
According to Alibaba CTO Jeff Zhang, the company does not view Amazon as a competitor, or at least declines to describe them as such when asked directly, instead noting that...
August 08, 2016
Apple Buys Turi To Beef Up Its AI, Machine-Learning Reach
Artificial intelligence is getting a lot more notice from the technology heavy hitters, with Apple reportedly acquiring Turi, the machine-learning and artificial intelligence startup. According to a report, Apple spent...
August 05, 2016
The Three-Step Plan To Optimizing Mobile Revenue
There’s no question that mobile has established itself as a default channel as far as the average consumer is concerned, and the growing cottage industry of turnkey software-as-a-service startups proves...
August 04, 2016
Square’s August Earnings Surprise
With its stock value up 10 percent in after-hours trading – Square has managed to please investors with losses smaller than expected, growing payments volumes and continuing signs of strength emanating from its...
August 03, 2016
Can AI Save eBay?
EBay was one of the fledgling internet companies at the center of the dot-com boom of the mid-to-late 1990s, and the online marketplace has outlasted more than its fair share...
July 26, 2016
Real Customer Satisfaction In Real Time
In a panel discussion with a trio of Enova executives, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster delved into the opportunities and challenges of creating a platform that works well from both a customer...
With more than two-thirds of CFOs citing payment delays as a problem for their firms in the last six months, nine in 10 companies wish to expand their investment in AR automation to accelerate order processing, reduce invoicing errors and expedite payments. In the “Working Capital Tracker®,” a collaboration with Billtrust, PYMNTS Intelligence explains why the demand for AR automation is growing and what’s at stake for companies that opt out of this trend.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand