| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.07.2024 | Quaker Houghton Appoints Two New Independent Directors to its Board of Directors | CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., July 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Quaker Houghton (NYSE: KWR) today announced the appointment of two new independent directors, Nandita Bakhshi and Lucrèce Foufopoulos-De Ridder, to the company's Board of Directors, effective... |
| 29.07.2024 | Disrupting AEC Norms: Frank Lazaro on AI Revolutionary Industry Practices | DI PRS 134
The AEC sector is undergoing a radical transformation, with a strong focus on proficiency, efficiency, and sustainability. Leading this change, Frank Lazaro, Principal at AE Marketer, is implementing AI-driven strategies that enh... |
| 26.07.2024 | G2A.COM Enhances User Experience with Expanded PayPal Integration**
** | ** In the bustling world of digital marketplaces, G2A.COM stands tall. This platform, a titan in digital entertainment, is now making waves with its latest upgrade: an expanded integration with PayPal. This move aims to transform the user c... |
| 23.07.2024 | G2A.COM expands its PayPal integration to create seamless user experiences in the digital marketplace | The extended integration provides security, convenience, and familiarity, helping make user shopping experiences even more enjoyable and efficient.
LONDON, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- G2A.COM, the world's leading marketplace for digital e... |
| 26.06.2024 | Frontier Airlines offering steep discounts through Nov. 13 | In the years that followed, Continental Airlines began cutting back its service in Denver. Rick Brown, a former United Airlines pilot, his wife Janice, Bob Schulman and former Frontier executives M. C. “Hank” Lund and Sam Adams saw an oppor... |
| 16.07.2021 | 4 Types of Payment Fraud that eCommerce Merchants Need to Watch For | From phishing to wire transfer scams, there are many clever types of payment fraud that eCommerce merchants need to be aware of. In this article, learn about the four most common types of payment fraud.
Payment fraud is a serious concern fo... |
| 09.07.2021 | 5 eCommerce Fraud Prevention Trends to Monitor in 2021 | Fraud prevention requires constant vigilance in order to stay ahead of emerging fraud trends. Here are 5 ways you can protect your business from fraud attacks in 2021.
Online and card-not-present (CNP) transactions have increased during the... |
| 08.07.2021 | The True Cost of eCommerce Fraud | This article takes a closer look at how much fraud is really costing merchants, and what companies can do to better balance their acceptance and fraud rates.
When it comes to eCommerce fraud management, businesses tend to focus on the direc... |
| 16.12.2020 | Collaboration Is The New Competition In FinTech | |
| 14.04.2020 | NASCAR driver Kyle Larson loses majority of main partners after using the N-word during Twitch stream | Advertisement
After NASCAR driver Kyle Larson used the N-word on a Twitch stream Sunday, more than half of the main partners on his website have either suspended or terminated their relationships with him.
Larson was competing in a virtual ... |
| 22.12.2019 | The 13 Biggest Wisconsin Tech Stories of 2019 | As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a look back at the top Wisconsin tech headlines from 2019. Wisconsin saw new corporate venture capital firms, a major expansion by one of the world's largest tech companies and several mergers... |
| 20.08.2019 | Fintech mega-deals lead to record-breaking $120 billion transaction value in 1H2019, reveals Hampleton Partners' research report | Fintech M&A deal volume reaches three-year high with 198 deals in 1H 2019, up from 164 in 2H2018
Global venture capital investment in fintech achieves record-level in Q2 2019 with $10.9 billion raised[1]
London, UK – 20 August 2019 - Th... |
| 21.03.2019 | First Data Acquires German ayCash | First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions, acquired ayCash, a Frankfurt, Germany-based provider of cashless payment terminals and digital merchant services.
The amount of the deal was not disclose... |
| 12.03.2019 | First Data To Acquire Software Express | First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global provider of commerce-enabling technology and solutions, is to acquire Software Express, a Brazil-based provider of EFT solutions.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
This acquisition will enhance the p... |
| 13.02.2019 | China’s Alipay digital wallet is entering 7,000 Walgreens stores | China’s payments heavyweights have been following tourists abroad as their home market gets crowded. Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial affiliate with a valuation of $150 billion, now sees its virtual wallet Alipay handling transactions at ... |
| 16.01.2019 | Fiserv to Buy First Data for $22B as Fintech Consolidation Continues | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The mega-deals keep on coming. Today, it’s a massive acquisition in financial technology: Fiserv has struck an agreement to acquire First Data in an all-stock transaction valu... |
| 16.01.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 16 | A DISAPPEARING ACT
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| 16.01.2019 | Fiserv is buying First Data in a $22B fintech megadeal | While we will continue to see a lot of consolidation among smaller startups in the area of financial technology, or fintech, there are also some much bigger combinations at play to help tap into economies of scale against current and future... |
| 16.01.2019 | Fiserv to acquire First Data in merger valued at $22B | Firserv is acquring First Data Corp. in an all-stock deal valued at $22 billion, according to a press release.
Fiserv will integrate its digital banking business into First Data’s digital merchant account business, which includes the Clover... |
| 08.10.2018 | Fintech M&A Deals Come Of Age with $40 Billion Transaction Value in First Half of 2018 | Machine learning, financial media, data solutions and payment processing companies fueling first-half 2018 deals
Blockchain solutions, insurtech and Europe’s Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2) expected to drive next wave of fintech M&... |
| 21.05.2018 | CareCloud Launches eCommerce Platform for Physician Practices, Breeze Shop | CareCloud, a Miami-based provider of cloud-based practice management and EHR solution for physician practices, today announced the launch of their new eCommerce platform, Breeze Shop. Breeze Shop makes it easier than ever for physician prac... |
| 08.03.2018 | The Gender Inequality Issue and What to do About it | The Chinese say ‘may you live in interesting times’. If you’ve been following world events lately, it has been nothing but.
2017 was a watershed year for women, with marches, the #MeToo movement, #TimesUp campaign and many women coming forw... |
| 11.12.2017 | Hackers hit key ATM network in crime spree that clears $10 million | Enlarge / A timeline of MoneyTaker hacking group.
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A previously undetected hacker group has netted around $10 milli... |
| 07.09.2017 | First Data sending mobile POS devices to help retailers hit by Hurricane Harvey | First Data is sending free mobile payment devices to Houston in a move to help retailers and businesses get back up and running as soon as possible following Hurricane Harvey.
The commerce-enabling technology company is sending thousands of... |
| 06.09.2017 | Payments Industry Steps up to Help Harvey Victims | Several payments companies have announced efforts to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, including monetary donations, interchange fee waivers and m-POS equipment.
Mastercard is donating $100,000 to the American Red... |
| 11.08.2017 | Silicon Valley Bank and First Data Announce Class 6 of Commerce.Innovated. | Silicon Valley Bank and First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global commerce-enabling technology provider, have selected four startups to participate in Class 6 of Commerce.Innovated.
Commerce.Innovated. is a four-month virtual accelerator designed to... |
| 01.08.2017 | Why AI & VR can change the global financial services industry | By Kuntal Shah
Today, it’s the digital customer’s world—banks just happen to live in it.
Twenty percent of bank customers are now digital-only users in the world, according to an Accenture report on the banking sector.
Seventy-three percent... |
| 29.06.2017 | “Blood and Sand”: The Moment-of-Truth for Mobile Wallets in Asia | “The Deed of the Dying”
Many ‘digital wallet” companies in Asia (ex. China) are finding it hard to demonstrate any meaningful value for the users. Wallet Players have experimented with various business models to monetize, but primary focus ... |
| 30.05.2017 | Exit alert: CardConnect to be acquired for $750 million | King of Prussia, Pa.-based CardConnect, one of Philly’s ubiquitous fintech firms, will be acquired by Atlanta-based First Data in a deal valued at $750 million.
As part of the deal, CardConnect CEO Jeff Shanahan along with the management te... |
| 09.05.2017 | Alipay, China’s top mobile payment service, expands to the U.S. | China’s dominant mobile payment service is making its move in the U.S..
Ant Financial, the Alibaba spin-off that operates Alipay, has inked a deal with payment processor firm First Data that will allow its service to be used at point-of-sal... |
| 11.04.2017 | Silicon Valley Bank and First Data Launch Commerce.Innovated. 2017 | Silicon Valley Bank and First Data (NYSE: FDC), a commerce-enabling technology platform, have teamed up to launch the 2017 edition of Commerce.Innovated., an accelerator designed to support commerce, payments and fintech startups in growing... |
| 25.10.2016 | Civic Demos Vision for Blockchain Web Login Service | Civic CEO Vinny Lingham isn't someone you'd be likely to identify as quiet.
Yet, since its launch in January, the outspoken founder of the Palo Alto identity startup has been tight-lipped about his new venture, the follow up to mobile gift ... |
| 21.10.2016 | E-Gift Cards Should be a Top Priority for Small Businesses | Finding the perfect gift for someone's birthday is a difficult task. Tack on a busy schedule, and it becomes almost impossible. There is no shame in admitting that sometimes, it's easier to grab a gift card and call it a day. According to t... |
| 12.09.2016 | First Data debuts contactless card reader that accepts mag stripe, EMV, and NFC payments | Global payment technology company First Data announced on Monday that it has launched what it describes as the “first fully integrated Bluetooth payment card reader.” With its very own contactless reader, the Clover point-of-sale system wil... |
| 12.09.2016 | First Data debuts contactless card reader that accepts mag stripe, EMV, and NFC payments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Global payment technology company First Data announced on Monday that it has launched what it describes as the “first fully integrated ... |
| 08.04.2016 | The South has something to say, and this time Atlanta hopes it’s with tech | If your city has developed a cultural export with a national reputation before, then your local entrepreneurship community ought to take some lessons.
In Chicago, founders speak of the Second City movement in comedy, a pipeline that has rec... |
| 03.01.2016 | 5 Things That Will Disappear In 5 Years | Tom Gonser Contributor
Tom Gonser is the chief strategy officer of DocuSign.
Just five years ago the world was a very different place. In 2010, the iPad had just made its debut, Kickstarter was introducing a new form of venture capitalism t... |
| 01.11.2015 | Keys to Data Security for Business | These days, concerns about cyberwarfare and hacking seem to be bigger than ever. President Obama said that government and businesses must be vigilant about protecting themselves from hackers and criminals.
Some small business may think that... |
| 15.10.2015 | Raising $2.56B In IPO, First Data Opens Only 2.4% Up At $16.39, Closes Below IPO Price At $15.83 | After payments processor First Data priced its initial public offering at $16 per share last night, below the expected range of $18-$20, all eyes were on the company to see how the year’s biggest IPO — raising $2.56 billion — would perform ... |
| 14.10.2015 | First Data Prices Its IPO At $16 Per Share, Raising $2.56 Billion | Payments giant First Data priced its IPO tonight at $16 per share, beneath the expected range of $18 to $20, according to Bloomberg. Selling 160 million shares, the payments-processing company will raise $2.56 billion in its flotation, maki... |
| 21.09.2015 | Tech.Co Deals Roundup: Virtual Reality and Self-Driving Cars | Happy Monday everybody! In today's Tech.Co deals roundup we've got some some big funding news from Rubicon Global, a company valued at over $500 million. We've also got some really interesting funding rounds for Jaunt, a virtual reality sta... |
| 19.09.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 9/19/15 | Altice agreed to acquire Cablevision; News. Corp bought Unruly; Ericsson purchased Envivio
News. Corp acquired social video advertising platform Unruly. The expected purchase price for the acquisition is as high as £114 million, or $176 mil... |
| 18.09.2015 | First Data Buys Spree Commerce To Move Into Open Source Payments Technology | Another move by a large company to up its stakes in the world of open source technologies: Payments giant First Data Corporation has acquired Spree Commerce, an open source storefront platform originally based on Ruby on Rails.
Terms of the... |
| 11.09.2015 | Today’s Funding Roundup: Square and First Data Both Eyeing IPO | Happy Friday! Like most of the days we write our funding roundup, there's no shortage of actual funding news today. However, there was a surprising amount of IPO, new fund creation, and acquisition news, which is a bit harder to come by on ... |
| 21.07.2015 | First Data Files for IPO | First Data Corporation, a Atlanta, GA-based provider of commerce-enabling technology and solutions, has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of ... |
| 12.06.2015 | Clover Connects Helpful Apps with the Businesses That Need Them | There are so many talented app developers out there, plugging away, creating mobile apps that may never see the light of day. It could be the greatest app in the world, but if they don't have a way to let people know that it exists (i.e. a ... |
| 30.03.2015 | First Data Study Shows Keys to Success for In-Store Gift Cards (March 30, 2015) | As retailers prepare for the year’s second-largest shopping season—Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduations—First Data research from the 2014 holiday season can help retailers drive gift card sales. The company’s “2014 U.S. Gift Card Holi... |
| 25.03.2015 | ShopKeep gets into payment processing with Payment Revolution acquisition | ShopKeep is fleshing out its point of sale offering with its acquisition of Payment Revolution.
The company is a point of sale provider that also offers inventory, staff tracking, analytics, payment processing software. Starting today they’... |
| 11.02.2015 | MineralTree Closes $11.1 Million Series B Financing Led by Payment Tech Leader First Data | Cambridge, Mass., February 11, 2015 – MineralTree, the accounts payable (AP) and payment automation solution provider for growing companies, today announced an $11.1 million Series B investment led by First Data, the global leader in paymen... |
| 07.12.2014 | Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS And $36M In Funding | Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project, announced some major milestones today, starting with $36M in Series B funding along with the early release of what they are calling the first data cente... |
| 12.11.2014 | Square launches chip reader ahead of 2015 switch to EMV cards in the U.S. | Merchants may have some difficulty switching to EMV cards next year, but at least they’ll have a range of options when it comes to payment terminals. Square is debuting its affordable chip card reader for preorder today.
The announcement co... |
| 04.11.2014 | First Data Debuts Clover Mobile, A Wireless, Tablet-Based Point-Of-Sale | Payment processor First Data today introduced a new, more portable point-of-sale system called Clover Mobile at the Money 20/20 conference being held now in Las Vegas. The handheld solution is an extension of the Clover brand. As you may re... |
| 27.10.2014 | Credorax Raises $40 Million To Become A Payment Acquirer For The Internet Age | Managing the arcane arts of processing transactions for online purchases is a complicated job. Once a shopper enters the numbers on their card, the expiration date on their credit card, and their zip code, a complicated machinery of transac... |
| 12.08.2014 | First Data: Gyft Deal Will Help Us Evaluate Bitcoin | Traditional payments giant First Data sent a ripple through the bitcoin community last month when the company announced it had acquired mobile gift card provider and long-time bitcoin industry advocate Gyft as part of a deal with undisclose... |
| 31.07.2014 | Payments enabler First Data enters gift card business with Gyft acquisition | First Data, which manages transactions for banks and retailers, announced yesterday that it has acquired digital gift card company Gyft.
By combining resources, the two companies, will be able to offer consumers increased flexibility when s... |
| 30.07.2014 | First Data buys out Vinny Lingham’s Gyft in $50m+ deal | Gyft, the virtual gift card service founded by South African-born entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has been acquired by First Data, a big player in the payment technology and services space.
Neither party has disclosed the terms of deal, althoug... |
| 30.07.2014 | First Data buys out Vinny Lingham’s Gyft in $50m+ deal | Gyft, the virtual gift card service founded by South African-born entrepreneur Vinny Lingham has been acquired by First Data, a big player in the payment technology and services space.
Neither party has disclosed the terms of deal, although... |
| 29.07.2014 | New Leaf CEO: “The Vision Hasn’t Changed” as Payment Tech Heats Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The checkout counter at your neighborhood hangout has become one of the hottest pieces of real estate in technology.
Younger companies like Square and Groupon are pushing digi... |
| 27.11.2013 | PayPal Adds Support For Prepaid Gift Cards In Time For Holiday Shopping | PayPal has added support for prepaid gift cards through PayPal Checkout, thanks to a “patent-pending and innovative method” that the company claims took “months of research and investigations” to develop.
Though prepaid gift cards are a hig... |
| 30.10.2013 | Why The $110 Billion Gift Card Industry Must Die | Guest author Josh Breinlinger is a venture capitalist at Sigma West.
I am constantly fascinated by the gift card industry. It’s a case study in behavioral economics. Every year, US residents turn $110B of cash into a far-less liquid asset a... |
| 29.10.2013 | Payments Giant First Data Acquires Mobile Loyalty Startup Perka For ~$30M To Take On Square And PayPal In SMB Market | In an effort to catch up with Square and Paypal, payment processing giant First Data has been quietly increasing its presence in the mobile payments market. As the largest credit card processing company in the U.S. with over one trillion do... |
| 24.05.2013 | MPayMe and First Data form Strategic Alliance to offer Mobile Payment Solutions using MPayMe's ZNAP Mobile Application | London, May 24, 2013 – MPayMe, Ltd., a Hong Kong-based mobile solutions specialist, and First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, today announced a strategic alliance to offer mobile payment solu... |
| 26.02.2013 | Foursquare partners with Visa & Mastercard to get you more check-in deals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Foursquare has teamed up with Visa and Mastercard... |
| 11.09.2012 | Vinny Lingham’s Gyft launches, is TechCrunch Disrupt finalist | Back in April we gave you an exclusive peek at ex Yola chief Vinny Lingham’s new startup Gyft. Now you can try it out yourself following the social gifting service’s launch at TechCrunch Disrtupt San Francisco.
Lingham, who started Gyft af... |
| 11.09.2012 | Vinny Lingham’s Gyft launches, is TechCrunch Disrupt finalist | Back in April we gave you an exclusive peek at ex Yola chief Vinny Lingham’s new startup Gyft. Now you can try it out yourself following the social gifting service’s launch at TechCrunch Disrtupt San Francisco.
Lingham, who started Gyft aft... |
| 16.07.2012 | Gift Card Payment Network Openbucks Raises $4.8 Million Series A, Led By Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang | Openbucks, a startup creating a gift card-based payment network (and a former TechCrunch Disrupt finalist), is announcing today it has closed $4.8 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. Also participatin... |
| 05.10.2011 | Pandora brings gift cards to Target | Holiday shoppers can pick up a Pandora One subscription on their next trip to the store
Giving the gift of good tunes is getting easier now that Pandora has rolled out its first line of physical gift cards in retail stores across the U.S.
T... |
| 22.08.2011 | A Woman, A Cupcake, A Bank And A Square: Why Credit Card Companies Are Scared Of Change | In the sleepy Columbus, Ohio suburb of Canal Winchester there is a shop that makes cupcakes. These are not ordinary cupcakes; these are fantastic cupcakes. In fact the name of this establishment—Fantasy Cupcake—is no boast and can readily b... |
| 15.06.2011 | Daily Deal Providers May Be Violating Consumer Protection Laws | Editor’s note:Guest author Rocky Agrawal continues his in-depth TechCrunch series looking at the daily deal industry. Agrawal is an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. He blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster.
Da... |
| 20.08.2010 | Tyfone Nabs $5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Portland, OR-based Tyfone, which develops mobile software for contactless payment services, has raised $5 million in equity from an undisclosed investor, according to a regula... |
| 13.03.2009 | Tim Armstrong's No-Lose Proposition as Chief of AOL | AOL's new soon-to-be CEO Tim Armstrong will be in for quite a sea change from his previous gig at Google. The lingering question: Why would you leave Google for AOL?
It's an interesting question raised by Sam Diaz offline. For all the talk ... |
| 18.02.2009 | VivoTech tacks on $8.6M for wireless credit-card transactions | VivoTech, provider of infrastructure for wireless credit-card transactions, just added $8.6 million to a now $40 million third round of funding open since 2007. Its technology lets people make payments via radio frequency enabled credit and... |
