After decades of focus on plastic cards, Mastercard has turned its attention to the potential of APIs to expand its services and reach. For the July B2B API Tracker™, a FI.SPAN collaboration, PYMNTS catches up with Oran Cummins, Mastercard’s SVP of APIs, about how APIs are furthering its mission of a...
A manual published in the late 1800s for New York City school teachers may not seem like a likely source of favored conventional wisdom. But anyone who has ever tried to teach a small child (or a large adult for that matter) something they had a...
Chatbots launched with a good deal of fanfare in early 2016 — only to seem much of the early enthusiasm for the product diminished when consumers and merchants alike learned that bots were often a better idea in concept than in execution. Even PayPal’s David...
How aggressive is Amazon’s pricing in its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery business? Aggressive enough that it beat Instacart, Peapod and Fresh Direct by more than $20 for a 30-item order in New York City in a Nomura Securities test, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday (April...
April 18, 2017
Chatbots launched with a good deal of fanfare in early 2016 — only to seem much of the early enthusiasm for the product diminished when consumers and merchants alike learned that bots were often a better idea in concept than in execution. Even PayPal’s David Marcus noted shortly after Facebook’s F8 conference last year that […]
April 17, 2015
How aggressive is Amazon’s pricing in its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery business? Aggressive enough that it beat Instacart, Peapod and Fresh Direct by more than $20 for a 30-item order...