Business Solutions news and trends

Visa Ready Program For B2B Payments Grows With Extend
B2B Payments // December 19, 2018

The Visa Ready Program for Business Solutions is growing with the addition of the Extend platform into its offering. In a press release Tuesday (Dec. 18), Extend said it is integrating its card issuing capabilities into the Visa Ready program, a framework for businesses that...

Google Cloud Collabs On Enterprise Analytics With ThoughtSpot
B2B Payments // November 14, 2018

Google Cloud has announced a partnership with artificial intelligence and data analytics firm ThoughtSpot to develop cloud analytics solutions for the enterprise. In a press release issued on Tuesday (Nov. 13), Google Cloud said it has certified ThoughtSpot to operate its in-memory calculation engine, Falcon,...

BitPay Lands Ex-PayPal Talent For Business Solutions Unit
B2B Payments // November 09, 2018

B2B cryptocurrency payments company BitPay announced this week that Rolf Haag is joining the company to lead its business solutions unit. In a press release, BitPay said Haag will spearhead the company’s B2B and mass payments operations. He comes to BitPay after working for both...

Walmart Tells Tech Partners Not To Host Its Apps On AWS
Retail // June 22, 2017

With competition fierce between Walmart and Amazon, the former has started telling technology partners to not run applications for the retailer on Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to a news report in The Wall Street Journal, tech executives said that if they want to continue to keep...

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Oculus Monetizes VR With Enterprise Subscriptions

May 01, 2019
Oculus has announced the impending launch of the new Oculus for Business, designed to streamline and expand virtual reality (VR) in the workplace. Oculus for Business, rolling out this fall, will add Oculus Quest to the hardware lineup, as well as provide a suite of tools designed to help companies utilize VR. “We originally launched […]

Walmart Tells Tech Partners Not To Host Its Apps On AWS

June 22, 2017
With competition fierce between Walmart and Amazon, the former has started telling technology partners to not run applications for the retailer on Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to a news report...