Starting today, New Yorkers with courier needs will be able to tap into a new resource; UberRush. Those in need of a courier will be able to use UberRush’s app based intercase to hire a foot or bike messengers to send packages from Manhattan to...
According to software-as-services provider Selz, an 80 percent of entrepreneurs work through PayPal when they are looking sell goods online, and SaS start-up thinks that they can make those transactions easier and smother with their new app. We started Selz as a simple payments alternative...
According to Jefferies electronics payments summit, Apple’s Mobile wallet and the evolving preferences of retailers are the biggest “wild cards” in the mobile wallet game today. “While news from Apple’s wallet offering continues to be limited,” Jefferies analyst Jason Kupferberg noted in a research report.,...
Several new payments startups earned recognition this week for swimming into the big leagues and, highlight this week’s Startup Roundup. One such company, PayStand, said bye-bye to beta to take on magnate PayPal.
After an initial public offering at $26 a share, GrubHub stock surged upward 20 percent in its initial day of trading April 3. The stock had climbed as much as 50 percent over the course of day, but pulled back as tech stocks plummeted on...
As point-of-sale processing evolves to include enhanced technology, including tablets and sophisticated POS software, many acquirers and independent sales organizations have found themselves being disintermediated by newer market players. A new Payment Apps marketplace tablet vendor Leaf is announcing today provides a means for them...
Airbnb Inc., and apartment-rental site, has reached an investment agreement with a group led by private-equity firm TPG for a funding round expected to total $450 million to $500 million. Also participating in the round are T. Rowe Price and Sequoia Capital, an earlier investor. ...
Ever wish it were as easy as having a pair of Ruby Red slippers to get where you want to be? In the case of retailers, it would be to that omnichannel nirvana where consumers download their apps and use them exclusively. But, as MPD...
mPOS has been promoted as the next step in secure payments systems. Yet Thursday, MWR InfoSecurity researchers showed how MPOS terminals can be comprised via multiple attack techniques. “The researchers…displayed how an attacker could gain full control of the MPOS terminal, allowing them to display...
