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Amazon Plunges Into India With Prime Day Launch
Amazon Plunges Into India With Prime Day Launch
July 12, 2017  |  Retail

For quite some time, Amazon has been looking to expand its reach into the India eCommerce arena. Just over a year ago, Amazon invested $3...

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Visa Hopes To Draw More SMBs Into Digital Payments With Its ‘Cashless Challenge’
Visa Hopes To Draw More SMBs Into Digital Payments With Its ‘Cashless Challenge’
July 12, 2017  |  VISA

Visa wants SMBs nationwide to go cashless. It also thinks better education about the benefits of doing so is the key to making it happen....

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PayPal Is Coming To iTunes
PayPal Is Coming To iTunes
July 12, 2017  |  Apple

PayPal users have a new place to use their mobile wallet — well, PayPal users in Mexico and Canada, anyway. PayPal and Apple have jointly...

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Logistics Services And Lending Services Bow Via MercadoLibre
Logistics Services And Lending Services Bow Via MercadoLibre
July 12, 2017  |  International

MercadoLibre, the online marketplace serving Argentina, is boosting its presence in areas such as lending and logistics. Those areas, Reuters reported on Tuesday, had once been...

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Google Targets India’s Mobile Payments
Google Targets India’s Mobile Payments
July 12, 2017  |  Google

India, already a mobile payments market marked by heavy hitters such as Paytm and Airtel, is proving alluring for Alphabet via Google and several of...

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CashStar Unveils Major Enhancements To CashStar Exchange
CashStar Unveils Major Enhancements To CashStar Exchange
July 12, 2017  |  Loyalty & Rewards

CashStar recently announced major enhancements to its CashStar Exchange platform, which provides secure, reliable, real-time access to the brands large gift card distributors use to drive...

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BlackRock Strategy: Cryptocurrency Speculation Doesn’t Present Systematic Risk
BlackRock Strategy: Cryptocurrency Speculation Doesn’t Present Systematic Risk
July 12, 2017  |  Bitcoin

BlackRock Global Chief Investment Strategist Richard Turnill argued Tuesday (July 11) that loose monetary policy has resulted in a huge run up in cryptocurrency, such...

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Amazon Reporting A Record-Breaking Prime Day
Amazon Reporting A Record-Breaking Prime Day
July 12, 2017  |  Amazon

According to Amazon, Prime Day may well shake out to be the biggest single-day shopping event in the firm’s 20+ year history – with Amazon...

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Elon Musk Purchases X.Com Domain From PayPal
Elon Musk Purchases X.Com Domain From PayPal
July 12, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

Space entrepreneur Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, has purchased the X.com domain name from PayPal. Musk confirmed the purchase in a tweet thanking PayPal...

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