by admin | Dec 24, 2015 | FinTech, news
In the first nine months of 2015 alone fintech startups raised $10.5 billion from venture capitalists and other big investors. But are real people actually using their products? In the early days of fintech companies plowed their often sizable war...
by admin | Dec 24, 2015 | Data Mining, Ecommerce, news
Imagine for a minute that the year is 1849. A new resource has been discovered in the rolling hills of California, and some say it can make you rich. Do you pack your bags and head west? Or do you pass on the opportunity and focus on your livelihood at home? An...
by admin | Dec 16, 2015 | Mobile App, Mobile Commerce, news, NFC, smartphone
Sixty-one percent of shoppers want to use mobile pay this holiday season. Once upon a time, a man said, “As far as I'm concerned, [technological] progress peaked with frozen pizza.” Well, that person spoke way too soon because now consumers have the...
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Ecommerce, M Commerce, Mobile App, news, Online Storefront
The North Face has partnered with IBM Watson and Fluid to bring AI to online shopping. Hopefully, it will make gift buying a little easier. Shopping for yourself is hard enough, but buying gifts for someone else can be even more difficult. And with the holidays fast...
by admin | Dec 4, 2015 | Digital Wallets, Mobile Commerce, news, NFC
At a recent HCE Payments conference attended by Helixion there was an interesting debate about what form would drive contactless payments forward: mobile or wearables. One opinion was that it would not be the mobile phone but “wearable devices”...
by admin | Dec 1, 2015 | Digital Wallets, news, NFC
Launching in the US, China, Brazil, and Switzerland next year Swatch has announced that it's bringing contactless payments to its forthcoming Bellamy smartwatch in the US next year. The Swiss company, which is the largest watchmaker in the world by...
