Bitcoin may be the headline grabber of cryptocurrencies. The price soars and then it dives. Billionaires and regulators and even casual observers of the investment sphere opine on the lures and pitfalls of cryptos in general. And slowly but surely, the concept of digital fiat is wending...
PayPal, the digital payments company, announced Thursday (Nov. 30) that on Sunday, Dec. 3 it will launch another live, interactive shopping experience, dubbed Local Selects Holiday Edition. Local Selects enables people to shop a specific location from anywhere in the world. Earlier this year, consumers...
Samsung may have beat Apple in adding “X” into the name of its smartphone, but that doesn’t mean the Korean technology company has been able to surpass its biggest rival in terms of sales. But according to news from The New York Post, Samsung could strike its...
ALDI, the grocery retailer, and Venmo, the peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment app company, announced news on Monday (Nov. 6) of a new campaign that lets Americans give 1 million meals to families in celebration of “Friendsgiving.” In a press release, the companies said that every...
Ah, those Millennials. Changing the face of payments. How can banks lure them to put thumbs to device and send money – the P2P way? Start with integrating it into the most ubiquitous app there is: the keyboard as PayKey CEO Daniel Peled tells PYMNTS’...
While retail has never been an easy business, the shift from analog to digital retail over the last decade or so has made it incredibly challenging in many ways. In an interview held shortly before the launch of PayPal for Marketplaces, PayPal’s chief operating officer,...
Consider, for a moment, the Class of 2035. What’s wrong with these kids of the future? Nothing, actually. Their future is just showing up all over the place — but differently than expected. In fact, 117 years ago, roughly 72 million people were living in the United States. There were also...
On Friday (Oct. 20), PayPal and Facebook announced news that they are expanding their partnership. Facebook users will now be able to send and receive peer-to-peer money transfers through PayPal from within the social media website’s Messenger app. Facebook has been busy expanding the range...
Facebook is making changes to the way third parties can monetize their use of the platform, TechCrunch reported. The company is rolling out in-app purchases and advertisements in games developed for their Messenger app, and also implementing paywalls for publications using the site’s Instant Articles...
