Retailing and eCommerce, Back to the Future (in 2017) 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 donât think of yourself as a technology company, you might not be around to ring in the new year in 2018. Read More... |
Wayfair Says AR Is Whatâs Next In Commerce Wayfair thinks VR and AR are the next big thing in retail â and are investing plenty to make sure they are. PYMNTS got the inside scoop on why they think it will pay off and how a furniture firm is leading retailâs charge into a new retail reality. Read More... |
Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital Eighty-three ears-ago today Prohibition came to an end â a social experiment that stopped almost no one from drinking, but did successfully ignite the Mafia. And in case one needs more proof that plans have a way of going awry â this week we had a hacker that managed to steal nothing, get himself hacked, the U.S. government accidentally committing to a few extra billions in student loan forgiveness and CAN Capital learning the hard way that reach and grasp have to mostly align with each other. Read More... |
| 2017 Payments Predictions | Sleepless In 2017: Eight Shifts That Will Kill Or Ignite Your Business Shifts in the Earthâs tectonic plates can cause massive devastation, and some shifts are so severe theyâve wiped out entire civilizations. The problem is that thereâs no way to predict when these shifts will happen or how devastating the impact until they do. Thatâs a pretty fitting metaphor, says Karen Webster for whatâs happening in and around the payments, commerce and retail ecosystems. Sheâs 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... |
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