It’s been a good ten months for Crowdfunding start-up Indiegogo. Following a very successful $40 million Series B funding round in January 2014, the company is following up quickly with a “celebrity” fundraising round which has tapped the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Megan Smith...
Hungry Kiwis with bitcoins to burn are now in luck—there now exists in New Zealand a bitcoin only grocery story: Bitmart. “The enthusiasm of the growing Bitcoin community and their eagerness to help establish a thriving digital currency economy in New Zealand really solidifies my...
Square talked about the value of a receipt in January at the NRF. Today, oodles of merchants and ATM deployers are convinced that receipts are the new “white space” to communicate with and up sell their customers. But which serves the purpose better - paper...
Prepaid card specialist Incomm has announced the launch of its new mobile platform for mobile wallet providers and merchants. The new platform integrates with a number of existent platforms to allow a full-breadth the processing mobile payments made using prepaid cards at a point of...
PayPal launched in the Middle East in 2012 with great expectations of bringing their unique brand of payments innovation to the ever growing community of Arab potential users. Two years later, things have not exactly gone as planned, PayPal has just 500,000 active customers in...
NoWait – a mobile wait listing service that allows app users to view list of nearby restaurants, check wait times and distances and allows them to join wait lists from a mobile phone – has raised $10 million in Series B funding. The round was...
Despite the movement to electronics payments and alternative currencies and a shift in the digital age, companies still need to accept cash, but it actually comes at a cost. With governments and businesses realizing the true costs of cash, will there be a greater switch...
Coupons, rewards, and data oh my! These startups are in the business of keeping customers and other businesses secure while they enjoy the benefits of mobile commerce. Find out who got what and how much.
What do a couple of ex-Visa/CyberSource guys see in bitcoin? Well, plenty, which is why they've launched Bitnet today. Bitnet will act as a third party mediator in vendor-consumer bitcoin transactions, taking what CEO John McDonnell says is the "mystery and risk" out of bitcoin...
