The payment app of the future will not be a payment app
The use of mobile payments is rising rapidly. The Federal Reserve found that 22 percent of cell phone owners in the US reported having made a mobile payment in 2014, up from 17 percent in 2013 and 15...
View ArticleAndroid Pay to launch this week
Employee notices posted in McDonald’s restaurants in the US suggest Google is preparing to roll out Android Pay this week Google is expected to start rolling out its mobile payment service, called...
View ArticleAndroid Pay begins rolling out today across the US
This article originally appeared on The Next Web It’s been a long wait, but Android Pay is officially starting to roll out today in the US. It replaces Google Wallet as Google’s primary NFC-based...
View Article3 Trends In Mobile Payments You Need to Know About
The mobile payments space has been touted as the next big thing for some time now. For almost as long as the mobile device revolution, industry watchers have predicted that the ubiquitous nature of...
View ArticleStripe: the invisible $5bn start-up powering the internet economy
“Online commerce is the last Google-sized problem on the internet” and James Allgrove thinks his company has the solution From robot sales staff and drone deliveries to Minority Report-style...
View ArticleJack Dorsey: I Believe That The Square Wallet Experience Was The Peak
Square Wallet, the digital wallet from mobile payments company Square that allowed people to pay with just their name, may not stay dead for long. During an interview with Re/code on Thursday, Square...
View ArticleHow Social Cash Made WeChat The App For Everything
A centuries-old tradition gave rise to China’s most valuable company and captured the attention of everyone from teens to Silicon Valley. A little over a year ago, my roommate Mike said something...
View ArticleHow Millennials are Reshaping Holiday Shopping Trends
It’s not news to us that the Millennial generation is reshaping our technological world one app release and Snapchat post at a time. The rise of this post-recession generation has had a direct impact...
View ArticleIndia’s Demonetization Is Having A Domino Effect On Credit, E-Commerce
Digital wallets are suddenly ubiquitous, but bigger changes are to come. When graduate student Drew Newman went on vacation to India earlier this month, he found a nation in the throes of...
View ArticleWhy mobile app stores are on their way out
Google announced last week an upcoming change to its Android mobile phone operating system that threatens the future of its own mobile app store, Google Play. And the resulting shift is likely to...
View ArticleHere’s Everything You Should Know About Alternative Lending In Asia
It used to be that if a big bank rejected your request for a loan, you were out of luck. Today, technology-savvy businesses are picking up the slack, offering lending options outside the purview of...
View ArticleWhatsApp is planning a payments service for its biggest market (FB)
Facebook is planning a digital payments service for WhatsApp in India, the app’s largest market. A recently posted job listing for a WhatsApp “digital transaction lead” for India reveals that the...
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