| Square backtracks on banking, Facebook beefs up blockchain, Amazon plays with toys. | | | Why Playing In The Sandbox Is Good For FIs Sandboxing is a buzzy buzzword in payment tech, and for good reason, according to Damo Sampathkumar, general manager at Renovite, in the latest Beyond the Buzzword podcast with Karen Webster. Sandboxing is how innovators test and learn before putting products in the hands of the public. The main way to do it wrong? Not doing it. |
| How Smart TVs Make Brands Richer Television is a medium that is nearly a century old, but tech companies are working overtime to keep the boob tube young. A look inside the inner workings of data tracking highlights the big role that television can still play in converting eyeballs to sales, even while those watching may have one of those eyeballs trained on the smartphone in their hand. |
| Amazonâs New Toy Story Itâs been a whole week already since Toys R Us closed its doors for good â just long enough for Amazon to announce it was going to double down on toys by bringing the eponymous print toy catalog back, handing it out at Whole Foods this holiday season. But itâs not the only one. In the surprise comeback of the year, toys are suddenly looking like retail's 2018 obsession. |
| | mPOS Tracker™ | | TRENDING: Can mPOS Solutions Win Over Cash-Centric Merchants? For SMBs, âcash-onlyâ can be a double-edged sword: instant access to funds at the cost of turning away card-holding customers who can spend more than the money in their pockets. In the latest mPOS Tracker, PYMNTS examines providersâ efforts to solve for both, including an interview with myPOS CEO Irfan Rasmally on how industry-specific features and instant settlements are pushing traditionally cash-centric merchants toward card payment via mPOS. |
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