Fans of ride-sharing pioneer Uber have for a long time speculated on its potential to develop into a global logistics firm. Uber customers in Hong Kong are getting a chance to test drive that future now with a “rent-a-van” service called Uber Cargo. Like Uber’s...
Fast-casual food chain Panera Bread has now rolled out its “Panera 2.0” upgrade to about 100 of its 1,845 cafes, adding online and mobile ordering and no-wait to-go orders, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. The chain launched the new restaurant format in Boston and Charlotte,...
It seems that Amazon will be taking no break in their attempt to become the online “everything” business in 2015, and is now developing a “secret” inventor platform aimed at helping create (and eventually exclusively sell) the next generation of electronic hardware. The proof, according...
If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em; that was the attitude Amazon was eventually forced to adopt toward Diapers.com and its parent company Quidsi. Amazon bought out the company for $550 million in 2010 after all attempts at competing with the online children’s products (and...
2015 is here. The holidays are over, and resolutions have already been made (and a few probably broken by now, too). And, the kids are back in school after the holiday break. So, in the spirit of school being back in session, we thought it...
The 2014 Year in FinTech Investment | The PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker The 11 Things You Need To Know About FinTech Investments in 2014 • $102 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, IPOs, acquisitions,...
“If you want to live in a cashless society, where most consumers and merchants are using their mobile phones for payments and other financial services, pack your bags and head to Somaliland or a few other destinations that are as long on mobile payments as...
No matter which sector of the payments industry you’re looking at, the conversation always comes back to mobile. Mobile payments, mobile shopping, mobile websites and mobile app — it all begins with mobile. Each of those categories brings with it debates about usage and growth about...
Mobile shopping on smartphones and tablets grew 174 percent in 2014, according to analytics vendor Flurry — including a whopping 220 percent jump on Android devices, VentureBeat reported. That made shopping the fastest-growing category for mobile usage, according to the company’s data. Productivity apps grew...
