Wayfair Inc. is gunning for $350 million in its upcoming IPO. Wayfair’s primary business is as an e-retailer for home furnishings, though it also operates several other e-commerce sites, including the membership-based Joss & Main. The company began its IPO process with a confidential filing...
Can Apple With NFC Ignite Mobile Payments? Well, we’re just about 3 weeks away now from Apple’s “big reveal.” September 9, 2014, is the date that Apple is expected to debut its new iPhone 6 and break its silence about all of the various consumer...
New data released by CivicScience indicates that almost 70 percent of gadget users unplug from their electronic tethers once a week or less. Some users can’t ever get quite that much distance, almost half (43 percent) report that “unplugged” is not something that ever occurs...
Here’s what happened in the first week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.2 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, $1,053.6 M was the driven by...
PayPal has started contacting its customers touting a feature called Pay After Delivery, which puts a new twist on its payment system. PayPal is pitching it as letting shoppers “get your items before you pay at no extra cost.” The way the service works is...
Payments-startup Square, whose card reader plugs into smartphones to let small merchants accept credit and debit cards, has decided against issuing its own brand of card, according to FastCompany. Square has been testing the card over the past year by giving prototypes to employees to...
In what will likely go down as one of the more appropriately metal moves of a ridesharing service, the ridesharing service Uber has roundly declare “Nein!” to Berlin’s State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs has thusly decided to ignore a prohibitive order issued against...
New York startup Spring launched its first mobile shopping app on Thursday (Aug. 14), an attempt to recreate online shopping by eliminating shopping carts and checkout, according to the New York Times. The Spring iPhone app, which is named for Spring Street in Manhattan’s Soho...
Merchants who use PayPal will soon get real-time sales reports on the PayPal mobile app, eBay’s e-payments subsidiary announced on Tuesday (Aug. 12). The new Mobile Sales Reports feature will be rolling out over the next few weeks for both iOS and Android versions of...
