For those investors hungry for some tablets-in-restaurants payment action, E La Carte offered some apparently tasty shares as it raised $35 million for a global expansion. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) convinced a federal court to shut down a Missouri-based Bitcoin company called Butterfly Labs because, according to the FTC complaint, the company “charged consumers thousands of dollars for its Bitcoin computers, but then failed to provide the computers until...
Just about everyone seemed absolutely giddy over Tim Cook’s breathless announcement of how Apple is revolutionizing payments. I’m hoping now that maybe, with a couple of weeks’ of distance and with at least some of you experiencing the buggy iOS8 operating system, I can make...
While it is easy to criticize B2B payment for being slow to change, its not always so easy to create products that offer something for all side of the transaction. B2B Payments are different, American’s Express’s Rob Alcock told MPD CEO Karen Webster, and need...
Mobile wallets are not easy, a statement proved true better by no business than Clinkle. After 17 month of jokes, 30 million in funding raised, a great staff exodus and then more mean-spirited humor, it almost seemed as though the impossible had happened: Clinkle launched...
PayPal is taking another small step in helping digital currency, particularly bitcoin, enter the mainstream by helping their merchants accept bitcoin payments. The leader in online payments is pairing up with Bitcoin processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin to allow digital goods (ring tones, games, etc) merchants to take...
Online home furnishings retailer, Wayfair Inc., has set its value at more than $2 billion in documents filed in advance of its initial public offering of stock. Wayfair is projecting an initial share price of $25 to $28 and 82,756,943 shares outstanding after the IPO. Get the...
Perhaps it is the snobbery that associates sophistication with living on one of the two coasts, but when most people think about cities that are being innovative when it comes to mobile payments, Minneapolis probably isn’ their first thought. New York, San Francisco or London...
The European Union Council of Ministers is preparing to toughen the rules for all mobile and digital payments, according to a report in Computing.co.uk. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...