Kickstarter Drops Amazon Payments for Stripe
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced today that it’s partnering with payments service Stripe, which will now collect and process all payments...
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Amazon Offers No Indication That It Is Starting a Bank
Om Malik noted yesterday that Amazon offered him a payment plan for the new Kindle he was considering: Looks like @Amazon...
What’s the Role for Banking and Payments at This Week’s CES?
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015, which officially begins tomorrow in Las Vegas, is the country's premier event for introducing high-tech...
Adyen are enabling rather than disrupting their way to Fintech Unicorn status
I struggled with the headline for this one. I knew there must be a story here, because it is not...
60% of Amazon Shoppers on Dec. 26 Used Mobile Devices
It was a very happy holiday season for mobile commerce. Happy, that is, if Amazon is any indicator for the rest...
The State of Consumer FinTech
Marc Andreessen in an interview recently said the following about finance: “We can reinvent the entire thing”. How has tech...
Was 2014 a Bad Year for Bitcoin?
As an investment, bitcoin was a particularly poor choice in 2014. You would have been better off with, well, just...
Sneak Peek: Capital One’s New Apple Pay TV Spot
Capital One's got skin in the Apple Pay game -- pigskin, that is. We related, back on Dec. 18, that...
PayClip, a Latin American Square, Raises $5.2 Million
Mobile payments startup Clip (PayClip Inc.), based in Redwood City, Calif., but focused on the Latin American market, announced a $5.2 million...
$510M of Fintech Funding in 17 Deals Caps 2014
Last week was surprisingly busy given how close it was to the year-end holiday freeze. But two blockbuster deals, $250...
