| JPMC buys Instamed, Tim Berners-Lee on building a new Web, Why anyone can be a unicorn now | | | Tim Berners-Lee On Building A New Web While lots of people feel the World Wide Web is becoming a rather troubling place, when Sir Tim Berners Lee says so, it carries extra weight. He did, after all, invent it. And now, he tells Karen Webster, he's trying to reinvent it by putting data control where it belongs â with the individuals and companies that are actually generating it. |
| Wallets Versus Stored Credentials: How Consumers Shop And Pay With Smartphones With mobile use on the rise, the pressure is on for retailers to adapt or perish. But should they focus on mobile wallets, or are they better off investing in apps? In the 2019 Remote Payments study, PYMNTS surveyed 2,300 consumers to determine how mobile is changing the way consumers shop and pay in-store and online. |
| Looking Toward Unattended Retailâs âBright Futureâ At The Kiosk Vending machines and unattended retail are increasingly ditching coins and bills in favor of payments rendered in digital bits and bytes â and transaction values are going up as a result. Worldnet CEO Will Byrne tells PYMNTS why the future for kiosk payments remains bright, as intelligent retail leverages AI and the convenience factor to gain consumersâ favor. |
| | Unicorn Valuations | | Why Anyone Can Be A Unicorn Now Being valued as a unicorn used to be something special. Braintree wasnât a unicorn in 2013, when it sold to PayPal for $800M. OpenTable was barely a unicorn in 2014 when it sold to Priceline, after having seated 570M diners and gotten 7,700 restaurants on board. Thatâs why Karen Webster says Nextdoor.comâs $2.1B valuation is a real head-scratcher â and why beating up on Uberâs value is a bit much. Hereâs why. |
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