“The path to any success is lined with disasters.” Adam Davidson wrote a pretty thought-provoking article on failure that was published in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago. This quote from his piece sums up his assertion that innovation today is a...
In just about a week, Americans – fortified by turkey and stuffing, maxxed out on football and ready to flee the visiting relatives, will participate in one of the most famous of all holiday rituals: Black Friday shopping. So, what can we call expect this...
Technically, the holiday season started November 1st. But we all know that holiday shoppers put their game faces on a week from today on the busiest shopping day of all days in the U.S. – Black Friday. But, this year, brick-and-mortar merchants may be...
There’s always something to fuel the competition between Samsung and Apple. This time it’s not a debate over devices as much as it is what that device can enable — and specifically one technology: beacons. Samsung’s recently announced that it was launching its own beacon...
Discover was a pioneer of cashback rewards when it began offering them to customers in 1986. Fast-forward 28 years and Discover still wants to make it easier for cardmembers to get that CashBack Bonus — anytime and anywhere. Discover announced Wednesday (Nov. 19) that is would offer...
Membership retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club is rolling out a co-branded credit card with rewards that its members can redeem on-demand when checking out at BJ’s stores, the company announced on Wednesday (Nov. 19). The on-demand redemption feature, which lets cardholders spend their rewards in $20...
In a perfect world for merchants, building a loyal customer base would be as easy as luring them in with a great deal and then banking on the fact that they’ll just stick around after they’ve had a chance to experience the product or service....
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Will Long Distance Travel Be The Next Ridesharing Victory? There’s nothing like being home for the holidays, or so the song says anyway. And given the 46 million or so travelers AAA predicts will be...
For well over a decade, players across the payments space and all around the world have been trying to crack the code on delivering mobile financial services to the un-and-underbanked consumer. And despite many great ideas and the urgent need to move those without bank...
