With 49 percent of securities professional looking to own a piece of the world’s largest e-commerce conglomerate, Alibaba is what we are going to be talking about for the next few weeks. Some analysts are beating the crowds, and PYMNTs has organized the top 15...
Apple will launch two new iPads and release the next version of its Mac operating system at an event on Oct. 21, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept. 17), citing media reports. Apple wouldn’t comment on the reports. Analysts had questioned the lack of an iPad...
While many commentators are describing the Alibaba IPO unfolding on Wall Street today (September, 18) as the emergence of the “Chinese Amazon,” BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier and economist Vanessa Zhang of the Global Economics Group agree that Alibaba is quite a bit more than that....
The old saying goes: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Diapers.com parent company (Quisidi) founder Marc Lore, who sold Diapers.com to Amazon for $550 M four years ago, is now looking to add a third part to that expression—then take their money and come...
To reach every corner of the world with the games on its Android platform, Google is thinking about how people pay, according to VentureBeat. Speaking at the GamesBeat 2014 conference this week, Google head of game business development Bob Meese said the key to the...
Apple has locked down the iPhone 6’s NFC chip, which it uses for Apple Pay mobile payments, and it can’t be used by any other apps, the company confirmed this week. So you shouldn’t expect third-party apps that let you use NFC tags or pay...
Uber can now legally operate its ride-sharing service in Frankfurt, Germany, after a regional court reversed a temporary injunction on Tuesday (Sept. 16), VentureBeat reported. The ban officially went into effect on Aug. 25, and theoretically stopped Uber’s UberPop subsidiary from operating in Germany. However,...
Investors may be concerned about the threat that Apple Pay poses to eBay’s PayPal unit, but the impact may be less negative than many assume, according to the Wall Street Journal. The next few months will likely see millions of iPhone 6 buyers in the...
For weeks, customers and BBVA’s digital exertion, Simple have complained about delays or total failures in scheduled payments as well as intermittent problems Simple’s perhaps unfortunately named app’s “Safe to Spend” feature. “What Simple is realizing is that even though they started as a ‘nonbank,’ they...
