Though speculating as to whether or not Apple is going to acquire Square has essentially been the payment’s ecosystem’s favorite pastime for the last several years, it seems that for its part, Square is looking to put distance between itself and Cupertino as opposed to joining...
Jet.com Inc. has closed $140 million in a new round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its total value to almost $600 million. That makes it one of the more valuable tech start-ups on Earth, which is a particularly impressive feat considering they...
Home Depot has almost finished rolling out 40,000 of its custom FIRST Phone smartphones to in-store employees — and the new-generation devices are slowly beginning to line up with industry standards, according to employee descriptions of the phones. The home-improvement chain rolled out the first...
When most people think of commerce and Turkey, the first image that jumps to mind is probably of Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar (pictured below). Which is not entirely unfair given that the Grand Bazaar is over 500 years old and was the most visited tourist attraction...
Kerfuffle is one of my all-time favorite words. I used it a while back to describe the situation that happened when some CurrentC merchants decided to shut off NFC capabilities at their terminals, thus denying iPhone 6 consumers the opportunity to use Apple Pay. That...
Marc Freed-Finnegan doesn’t think receipts are exciting. What he does think is that they are is essential. “Table stakes,” he calls them, in terms of bringing value to a mobile wallet and giving retailers access to high-quality data necessary to improve the customer experience. It’s this line...
Wendy’s is looking to payments as a way to pull customers in and keep them returning. The fast-food chain is installing a standardized point-of-sale system in more than 2,600 locations to use as a mobile marketing platform, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. The common POS system,...
It might seem weird to think of the benefits of online shopping as more of a theory than a practice, especially when the advantages of having near-bottomless inventory and quick price comparisons are so clear, but according to new survey data from the IBM Institute...
Greg Goldfarb may be one of the only merchant innovators Karen Webster has ever talked to whose company is not about to develop its own mobile wallet. The reason, says Goldfarb, CEO and co-founder of Flint Mobile, is that “simplicity is king” – for small...
