Financial services technology firm FIS has launched its 2024 FIS Fintech Hangout Series. The program, announced Wednesday (Jan. 31), connects FinTech startups, investors, financial institutions, FIS experts and participants from the FIS Fintech Accelerator Program. “This series will spark meaningful conversations, share best practices and showcase the amazing...
We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they are likely to at least listen when we talk about favorite products and services, retailers,...
Square announced that its CFO is stepping down, which caused the company’s shares to fall in after-hours trading. Square’s CEO Jack Dorsey revealed that Sarah Friar — often described as his right-hand person — was leaving the company to become to the CEO of Nextdoor. “Sarah isn’t...
Understanding who one is doing business with is the first step to mitigating a myriad of risks, including non-compliance, non-payment, violated contracts and more. For decades, business partners have gathered at in-person meetings, conferences and networking events to do business, with the physical business card...
October 04, 2019
We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us more than boastful blowhards), they are likely to at least listen when we talk about favorite products and services, retailers, and consumer-oriented experiences. We don’t expect to get rewarded, much […]
September 26, 2018
These days, it is fair to say that data makes the world go ’round. Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of raw data are produced worldwide, and harnessing the power of that...
September 07, 2018
If one were looking at the economy a decade ago, Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson told Karen Webster, the biggest challenge businesses faced in growing was clear: access to capital. Ten years ago, the...
March 07, 2024
LinkedIn’s premium subscription segment reportedly earned $1.7 billion in revenue in 2023. During the same year, the social networking platform for professionals saw a 25% leap in the number of premium subscribers, Reuters reported Thursday (March 7), citing its interview with LinkedIn Chief Operating Officer Dan Shapero. LinkedIn, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2016, amassed a total of […]
January 31, 2024
Financial services technology firm FIS has launched its 2024 FIS Fintech Hangout Series. The program, announced Wednesday (Jan. 31), connects FinTech startups, investors, financial institutions, FIS experts and participants from the FIS Fintech...
October 11, 2018
Square announced that its CFO is stepping down, which caused the company’s shares to fall in after-hours trading. Square’s CEO Jack Dorsey revealed that Sarah Friar — often described as his...
June 07, 2018
Moving into location-based services, LinkedIn is rolling out a function that allows job seekers to scope out the commute time to potential employers. The feature, which is dubbed “Your Commute,”...
