Curbside, the mobile shopping startup, is using $9.5 million in seed and Series A funding to help shoppers do same-day pickup, which is a hybrid between mobile shopping and in-store. Ideally, it combines the convenience of M-Commerce with the immediacy of in-store, with shoppers driving...
Reporting Tuesday (Oct. 7) that it’s operating profit plunged as much as 61.8 percent, as it battles Apple in the smartphone market that it once dominated. The Wall Street Journal opted to not mince words Tuesday, saying that Samsung “has gone from smartphone model to...
PayPal’s new chief executive, Dan Schulman is reported to receive a base salary of $900,000 in addition to equity awards over the next year of $18 million and be eligible for as much as $29.1 million in pay for benefits he is possibly forfeiting from...
PayPal is now making it easy for foreign shoppers who want to shop at online US stores, by teaming up with Shopmesimply. Many people who live outside of the United States want to shop at US based online shops but can’t for many reasons. One...
Is Google tightening the screws on large Android OEMS that leverage the Android operating system to revive Google Wallet in the face of the new Apple Pay challenge? That may be why the search giant is introducing new requirements for Android certification. According to confidential...
Sourcery, an online wholesale food supplier director and payments processor, wants to change the way restaurants manage their kitchens and free them from the shackles of paper. The company has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and is planning to take its show on the...
There is an entire segment of the app market that wants to do nothing more than help consumers manage their money. MonSense (which surely is intended to portmanteau of “money” and “sense”, but sounds a bit more like the world “nonsense” when actually uttered aloud...
“Innovation is not a ‘destination,’ but an ongoing journey to perfection,” says Rahul Mutha, Founder and CEO of Aurus, a payments solution provider. Aurus began in the basement of Mutha’s Long Island apartment – today, it processes approximately $4 billion in transactions each year. After...
Back in March, China bans using QR Code for payments, but that may end shortly, according to a report in Mobile Commerce News. The initial ban from the Central Bank was issued because of security concerns. The story reports that rumors of the ban’s imminent...
