It’s been a strong year for PayPal, which has seen its shares up 75 percent since the beginning of the year. And, as of last week, PayPal had carved itself out a new distinction — a market cap that has bounced over American Express. PayPal’s...
Shopify, the Canada based eCommerce software provider, is out defending its business after short-seller Citron Research slammed the company, sending shares down for two days in a row. According to a report in Reuters, Citron Research said Shopify stocks are overvalued and that its marketing...
CareCloud and First Data are working jointly to make the experience of medical professionals and medical patients that much smoother and more engaging with the release of a new platform called Breeze. The patient experience portal can be accessed either through Breeze’s mobile or web app —...
Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit card numbers, especially when on a mobile device – is a pain point that the entire payments industry has been focused on now for...
In contextual commerce, the play’s the thing. Or the concert. Or the game, for that matter. In an announcement via blog post on Monday (Sept. 25), Braintree, the PayPal subsidiary, said that it has partnered with Eventbrite to bring seamless ticket purchase experiences to Facebook....
Most Americans think ride-sharing — à la services like Lyft and Uber — has been good for the U.S. Online shopping, on the other hand, seems to cause a wave of much more mixed feelings, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll....
Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the data shows in the latest joint “How We Will Pay” study by Visa and PYMNTS, the timing is right for truly mobile payments...
Birkenstock USA Chief Executive Officer David Kahan has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to having his company’s products sold on Amazon.com, telling shop owners not to sell the German-made offerings through Amazon’s marketplace. According to a news report in The Washington...
Amazon recently announced the launch of Amazon Spark, a service designed to improve customers’ ability to find new products. According to a report in TechCrunch, the new service seems to take a page from Instagram’s shoppable photos. With Spark, users are urged to post stories, ideas...
