Eight Shifts Keeping Retailers Up | Holiday Deals Go Dark | Walmart's Big Test

Shifts in the Earth’s tectonic plates can cause massive devastation, and some shifts are so severe they’ve wiped out entire civilizations. The problem is that there’s no way to predict when these shifts will happen or how devastating the impact until they do. That’s a pretty fitting metaphor, says Karen Webster for what’s happening in and around the payments, commerce and retail ecosystems. She’s identified eight big shifts that she says can either kill or catalyze your little corner of these ecosystems in 2017. Which side will you be on? Read More...

Care to hazard a guess as to where eCommerce and retail may be headed in the year ahead? In our latest Topic TBD, Poynt CEO Osama Bedier shares his views with Karen Webster. Hint: retailers, if you don’t think of yourself as a technology company, you might not be around to ring in the new year in 2018. Read More...

Consumers aren’t the only ones enjoying the discounts and deals brought on by the holiday season. Even hackers are cashing in and stocking up. James Chappell, CTO and cofounder of Digital Shadows, joined PYMNTS for this week’s Hacker Tracker to discuss how cybercriminals are enjoying their own version of the holiday shopping season across online marketplaces on the dark web. Read More...