To simplify the recurring billing process for Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscription-based companies, Stripe has rolled out Billing. The service combines advanced machine learning with automatic card updates to help businesses increase recurring revenue at a time of growth for subscription-based models, Stripe said...
In between stories last week about Jack Dorsey saying that bitcoin will be the world’s single digital currency in about 10 years and Facebook’s meltdown over its latest data scandal, you might have missed Google’s announcement of Shopping Actions. Shopping Actions is Google’s big shot...
To enable faster and more efficient royalty payment advances to recording artists working on TuneCore, Hyperwallet has signed a deal with Lyric Financial — a financial services provider that specializes in royalty advances and loans for recording artists, Hyperwallet said in an announcement. Irregular or delayed earnings...
If two years ago we had reported that Chase and PayPal had struck up a partnership in which Chase Freedom cardholders would get 5 percent cash back every time they used their card via PayPal to make a purchase, we imagine the likely responses would...
Smart payments and integrated commerce firm i2c said Tuesday that it is opening an operations center in Omaha, Nebraska. That center will be operational during the second quarter of this year. The Omaha location will be used, the company said in a release Tuesday, to expand...
To help shoppers use gift cards, coupons and loyalty rewards when paying with their mobile phones, Ingenico Group has made Google Pay Smart Tap available on its point of sale (POS) systems in the U.K. Ingenico made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress, the company said in...
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year mark for any new product, it’s top of the S-curve or bust. Here’s a walk down S-curve memory lane, courtesy of a Harvard...
Some days will always be remembered — Oct. 29, 1929, for example (a.k.a. the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Others are symbolic for other reasons. Everyone may not know that the Ides of March means March 15, but there are very few English speakers who...
With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. When a consumer or a company wants to send a payment, they can now do so instantly from their smartphone with services such as Apple Pay or Venmo. As a result, banks...
