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The day when we no longer have to cart around our fat wallets, jammed with credit cards and cash is fast approaching. Several smart mobile payment platforms have emerged over the past few years including Square, PayPal,VenmoandDowallain the U.S. making it easy to pay our friends securely and in realtime. Today, in Europe, atThe Next Web Conferencein Amsterdam, Euro-Wallet has officially unveiledZMAZZas its new mobile banking and payments platform, enabling users to pay from any mobile phone in retail and at small medium enterprises as well as on the web and to each other....

ZocDocis like… the Airbnb for doctors…..No, just kidding! While it does share similar elements to the stellar startup like tapping the power of the Internet to fill vacant space and being a stellar start up in its own right, New York City basedZocDocis tackling what may be the greatest problem of our time: healthcare. In case you’ve never heard ofZocDocbefore, it is one of the most structurally intelligent and most powerful technologies spearheading our health care revolution....

TheZombies, Run!story sounds like a fairytale. A group of people come up with a great idea for an app, and get some funding to build it. Except this fairytale doesn’t go like most Silicon Valley stories. This time, the funding came from people who really want to use the app, not from an angel investor or VC firm. The company headed right to crowdsourced funding siteKickstarter. You see, the companySix to Starthasn’t completed this fairytale, yet....

Just two years after going public ata $9 billion valuation, videoconferencing giant Zoom has agreed to buy cloud call center firmFive9 for a cool $14.7 billion. The all-stock deal will allow Zoom to expand its range of services, CEO Eric Yan said in a statement on Sunday: We expect that this acquisition will help enhance Zoom’s presence with customers and allow us to accelerate our long-term growth opportunity by adding the $24 billion contact center market....

Zoom execs dumped $580M of stock as its share price rose 622% Chief exec Eric Yuan just dumped $69 million worth of company stock Compared to Bezos, Zoom’s insider dumps are rookie numbers While SEC docs show that each Zoom insider sold shares according to pre-set trading plans, Yuan’s latest trades were even more profitable due to company’s raging share price. Overall, Zoom stock has returned 622.5% year-to-date, having skyrocketed from $68....