Television investment-advice-giver Jim Cramer recently told his CNBC audience that he just discovered fleet card companies and loves them. “The fleet card business may be the hottest business that you’ve never heard of,” he said. Most of his segment involved his heaping praise upon Fleetcor...
The idea of email marketing might seem slightly less exciting when put next to something like a beacon-prompted push notification on a cool mobile device when near a physical store. But @Pay CEO John Killoran says that mobile buying has, to date, been a tremendous...
Square is merging the two things every payments geek needs: geolocation and making sure that your coffee is served hot and fresh. (For many payments firms, “fresh” is measured in months, but let’s not go there.) The grounds of the concept are easy to pour:...
Shifting technology, new alliances and skepticism among young consumers are creating risks — as well as opportunities — for PayPal, according to Bloomberg. That’s one reason PayPal is being spun off from eBay, which will give the payments business more flexibility to innovate and find...
Pizza Hut, who was the first retailer to truly push the capabilities of the iPhone app and has been a longtime massive support of Apple efforts, said some decidedly non-cheerleaderish comments on Monday (Oct. 6) during a tradeshow panel. “I am more pessimistic about Apple...
Against the backdrop of global political tensions and tit-for-tat diplomatic and economic sanctions involving Russia and the United Nations, Russia is publicly rethinking how it wants to handle payments. Partly, this is so that Russia can try and isolate and protect itself from external economic...
Venture Capitalist—and graphical Web browser creator—Marc Andreessen is looking at the payments space as an area that needs to—and can—be fully recrafted. “We have a chance to rebuild the system. Financial transactions are just numbers, it’s just information. You shouldn’t need 100,000 people and prime...
Is Google tightening the screws on large Android OEMS that leverage the Android operating system to revive Google Wallet in the face of the new Apple Pay challenge? That may be why the search giant is introducing new requirements for Android certification. According to confidential...
“Innovation is not a ‘destination,’ but an ongoing journey to perfection,” says Rahul Mutha, Founder and CEO of Aurus, a payments solution provider. Aurus began in the basement of Mutha’s Long Island apartment – today, it processes approximately $4 billion in transactions each year. After...
