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Frank J. Ohlhorst Mar 16, 2017 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Alooma Eases the Way

Real-Time Data Visualization Taking Hold in the Enterprise

Real-time data is becoming more and more important…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
Barb Darrow Mar 6, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Pragmatism triumphs

Strange bedfellows: Amazon sets up shop on Alibaba site

Amazon.com has opened an online presence on rival Alibaba’s Tmall superstore, according to Reuters and other outlets citing an Alibaba spokesman. [company]Amazon[/company] and [company]Alibaba[/company] are both…

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Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 3, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Alibaba comes stateside

If you thought cloud competition couldn’t get hotter, think again

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened a data center hub in Silicon Valley, adding yet another gigantic player to a growing, but already hotly-contested cloud…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 17, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- 100K+ cores and counting

OpenStack comes up huge for Walmart

For those skeptics who still think OpenStack isn’t ready for prime time, here’s a tidbit: @WalmartLabs is now running in excess of 100,000 cores of OpenStack…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Kevin Fitchard Jan 22, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Not quite mainstream yet

Braintree’s bitcoin API is now available to merchants in beta

PayPal’s developer arm Braintree has finished its initial integration work with Coinbase, and is opening up a beta program to its online…

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Technology
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 14, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Markups are out, fees are in

On the way to $220M in funding, Instacart quietly changed its business model

In its early days, grocery store delivery startup Instacart made its money two ways: Through delivery fees and product markups. It charged…

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Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Jan 6, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Stripe's roll continues

Kickstarter dumps Amazon Payments in favor of Stripe

Crowdfunding powerhouse Kickstarter is taking its $529 million in annual pledges and moving them to a different payment processor. In a blog…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Ralph Dangelmaier, BlueSnap Dec 27, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- From cool to mainstream

2015: The “college experimentation” year of mobile payments

In November, when Dutchman Martin Wisjeimer became the first man to inject Bitcoin keys inside his hands, he captured the spirit of payments…

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Technology
David Meyer Dec 22, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Belarus blocks news and commerce websites over currency fears

Fearing a run on banks and shops due to a faltering currency, the authorities in Belarus have blocked several news and e-commerce…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Nov 25, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Twitter gets into the coupon business to woo advertisers

Twitter has introduced "Twitter Offers," which allow any retailer to turn a promoted post into a coupon. This is a substantial step for Twitter in the world of commerce.…

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Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Nov 17, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Juniper: 1.6B people will make a mobile transaction in 2014

The smartphone may still be a long way from replacing the back-pocket or purse wallet, but people around the world are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to buy goods, transfer money and manage their bank accounts.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Nov 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft ties services into new African e-commerce portal as Internet.org app spreads

Microsoft is making a concerted effort to promote its services to people in emerging African markets, as part of a new e-commerce ecosystem aimed at the unbanked. Meanwhile, Facebook's Internet.org portal is opening up in Kenya.…

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Mobile, Technology
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 14, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Snapchat reportedly plans to become a mobile platform, much like China’s WeChat

A recent report says Snapchat wants to become a hub for other services. We can look to another messaging beast -- WeChat -- for an idea of what that might look like.…

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Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Sep 26, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Stripe is operating the payment machinery behind Facebook’s “buy” button

Stripe is starting to rack up payment processing deals with the heavyweights of social media, opening up huge potential for the growth of its credit card transactions business.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Sep 24, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Rocket IPO will reportedly value German e-commerce giant at $8B

Rocket Internet’s upcoming IPO looks to be a barnstormer. As reported by Reuters on Wednesday, the flotation on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Sep 9, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Japan’s Rakuten buys cash-back e-commerce firm Ebates for $1BN

The Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is shelling out $1 billion for the U.S. cash-back site Ebates, a 15-year-old business that claims 2.5…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Sep 5, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Alibaba, expected to be the largest IPO in US history, has priced its shares

If Alibaba raises the amount of capital it hopes to, it will become the twenty-third largest listed U.S. company, bigger even than Amazon.…

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Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Aug 19, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

PayPal bonds further with Braintree, putting one-touch payments in mobile apps

PayPal is taking up Braintree's Venmo Touch technology, which lets developers put a one-touch purchase button directly into their apps.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Aug 7, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Rocket Internet takes massive investment from PLDT, giving it a valuation of around $4.5B

The PLDT deal is largely about developing mobile and online payment technologies for emerging markets, but it also gives the market a hint at Rocket's worth ahead of a rumored IPO.…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Aug 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Soon Square will deliver your gourmet pizza as well as charge it to your card

Square is buying swish meal delivery service Caviar. The San Francisco startup could be what Square was missing to make its mark with independent restaurants.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jul 17, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Twitter buys CardSpring to start selling goods within its tweets

CardSpring links online and in-store commerce to social media through the credit card number. The acquisition could mean we could start do our future shopping (and purchasing) in our Twitter feeds.…

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Mobile, Work & Collaboration
Paul Armstrong, HERE/FORTH Jul 12, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Twitter’s “buy now” button could finally unlock micropayments for the media

Past experiments in micropayments on Twitter have flopped. Could the new "buy now" button be the answer struggling media companies and publishers have been longing for? Paul Armstrong looks at the potential rewards and challenges ahead.…

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Media, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Jul 9, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

PayPal, Braintree combine dev programs, creating a single shop for mobile, online payments

Ten months after announcing acquisition, PayPal has merged it and Braintree's payments platform and developer operations. Startups and big companies alike now can offer PayPal services and Braintree's card processing through as single API.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Jun 17, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Behavioral fraud detection firm BioCatch takes in $10M investment

The Israeli startup examines precisely how people use the banking and e-commerce sites it is protecting, in order to spot when something is out of the ordinary.…

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Europe, Technology

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