September 22, 2014
Smile! MasterCard Toys With Mobile Facial Recognition For Payments
MasterCard is labeling “successful” a biometrics payments trial (facial plus voice) where more than 14,000 transactions were confirmed in a closed iOS and Android pilot using only MasterCard employees, according...
September 20, 2014
Alibaba IPO Is Done, So Now What?
Order imbalances may have delayed Alibaba’s initial public offering for a bit on Friday (Sept. 19), but the company made a ton of money nonetheless. It’s stock price opened at...
September 17, 2014
Uber Ban Lifted By German Courts
Uber can now legally operate its ride-sharing service in Frankfurt, Germany, after a regional court reversed a temporary injunction on Tuesday (Sept. 16), VentureBeat reported. Get the Full Story Complete...
September 16, 2014
Alibaba’s Price Range On The Rise Pre-IPO
Investors hoping to snatch up stock in Alibaba for a bargain price between $60 and $66 won’t be getting their wish when the Chinese e-commerce giant goes public later this...
September 09, 2014
Letter from the Editor – Spring 2014
Sep 11, 2014 The first competition law was passed in 1889 in Canada, followed shortly by the United States in 1890. Subsequent expansion of competition regimes was slow — it...
September 09, 2014
Amazon’s Fire Phone Price Slashed To 99 Cents
Talk about your fire sale. Amazon on Monday (Sept. 8) slashed the price of its 32-GByte Fire smartphone from to 99 cents—barely two months after launching it at $199. The...
September 09, 2014
What’s In A Marketplace?
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September 05, 2014
EU’s Supermarkets Don Clothes To Boost Margins
Discount supermarkets in Europe are findings it increasingly difficult to compete on the food products they sell, so they’re turning their attention to another, more profitable consumer staple: clothing. And...
September 04, 2014
Just About Every Home Depot Store Was Hit With Its...
Although the initial reports about the Home Depot databreach indicated the attack was extensive, the latest details suggest the breach seemed to have been chain-wide, hitting virtually every single store...