Companies, If Not Consumers, Clamor For Apple Pay
Apple Pay now supports 90% of U.S. credit cards in terms of purchase volume, the technology company said Tuesday. Banks like SunTrust, Barclaycard and USAA recently began working with Apple to support...
View ArticleHow The Digital Wallet Will Drive Mobile Commerce in 2015
Guest author Bill Ready is CEO of the PayPal unit Braintree. Mobile is on the rise and has helped disrupt many traditional industries, including transportation, accommodations, services and retail. As...
View ArticleYour Mobile Phone Is More Secure Than Your Visa Card
As mobile payments become more common, thieves will be more likely to target them. Is waving your smartphone over a store-counter gadget really a secure way to buy something? Right now, such mobile...
View ArticleHeres What Shopping With Apple Watch Will Look Like
Are you comfortable paying for your weekly grocery shop with a mere wave of the wrist? You’ll be able to in a few short weeks when the Apple Watch makes its much-hyped debut. If you move your Apple...
View ArticleYoull Soon Be Able To Send (And Receive) Money Via Facebook
There are many, many ways to send money to your friends online, but that’s not stopping Facebook from throwing its hat into the ring. Facebook announced Tuesday that its Messenger app for mobile...
View ArticleDebunking myths around Apple Pay fraud
This article originally appeared on The Next Web Last month David Bozin discussed how Apple Pay was highlighting crucial flaws in how banks deal with digital payments. This month, Judo CEO Dennis Jones...
View ArticleShoppers to spend one in seven pounds with a mobile phone by 2024
Retailers set to take mobile payments in 13.7pc of transactions in the next decade, research suggests Mobile devices will be used to pay almost £1 in every £7 spent in British shops within the next...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger payments are now available in NYC, along with easier...
This article originally appeared on The Next Web Facebook first got into the mobile payments game two months ago, but the roll out has so far been pretty slow, available in only select parts of the US....
View ArticleApple and Google reportedly plan mobile payments overhaul as competition...
This article originally appeared on The Next Web Once friends and allies, Apple and Google have emerged as rivals — and now may be jockeying for position in the competitive arena of mobile payments. As...
View ArticleUK Apple Pay hold-out Barclays wants you to use its own devices for...
British bank Barclays would prefer if you used its own hardware to pay for your next purchase rather than your phone. It announced today three ‘bPay’ devices for making your next payment: a wrist...
View ArticleThe 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...
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