A decade after its birth in a Brooklyn apartment, online crafting marketplace Etsy is heading for an IPO on the NASDAQ. The company values itself at around $1.7 billion, according to a regulatory filing. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The Shopify point of sale app has come to the iPhone.The e-commerce software company announced this week that Shopify POS is now available for the Apple iPhone and iPad, and it is free for all Shopify merchants. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Having made a name for themselves in providing an on-demand shipping service, Shyp announced on March 4 that it would now enable customers to return items bought from select retailers, fixing something the company claims was an inefficiency in the… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

While Twitter’s mobile advertising engine, MoPub, is steadily chugging along, Facebook has taken notice, and is rumored to be launching a similar product of its own in the near future, Bloomberg reported. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Apple is emerging as a top smartphone supplier in China, giving China’s Xiaomi a tough fight on its home turf as Apple smartphone sales now account for 25 percent of market share. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Retailers are fed up with hearing from banks and credit unions that they don’t care about payment-card security and fraud, Bank Info Security reported. “It’s Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Finding out if a product will be successful beyond the initial curiousity is just good business. With market research, you determine if the opportunity exists, how to position the product or service, or what consumers’ opinions are after the launch. If you…

MasterCard will be issuing every adult in Egypt a mobile-based debit card account that will double as a national ID card, the card brand and the Egyptian Source: http://www.pymnts.com

For the first time since 2011, Apple has outsold Samsung in the mobile phone arena. According to technology research firm Gartner, with worldwide sales of Source: http://www.pymnts.com

For Apple Pay, it’s 98 and counting. Apple confirmed on Tuesday (March 3) that 17 more financial institutions have gone live with full Apple Pay support in the Source: http://www.pymnts.com