Ebay’s long history in E-Commerce (its Sept. 1995 launch made it one of the very first E-Commerce companies to launch, although Amazon’s July 1994 launch beat it by more than a year) has always been about consumer-to-consumer purchases. This week, it launched a geolocation-based app...
Danish startup AllUnite, which lets retailers offers ad-supported free Wi-Fi in their stores, plans to add 50 new markets in 50 weeks with its €3 million ($3.76 million) in new funding, TechCrunch reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
If you can download Google Wallet and can somehow persuade enough friends—OK, if you’re trying to force them to use Google Wallet, maybe you better go for acquaintances and distant relatives from your spouse’s family—to do the same, you could pull in $100. Get the...
A report from Ericsson released Tuesday (Nov. 18) shows some startling growth of Internet-connected devices in the U.S., with 90 percent of U.S. households having three or more such devices, while almost half have five or more such devices and almost 25 percent have seven...
Mobile payments app Venmo will now let iPhone users sign into its P2P payments service using Apple's Touch ID feature, and has also simplified signing up for the customers of four large U.S. banks with an app update that rolled out this week.
McDonalds is now reporting that Apple Pay is the payment mechanism behind 50 percent of all of its tap-to-pay transactions, which is more impressive than it sounds given the many years McDonalds has been accepting contactless payments. McDonalds has also been creative–although possibly impractical–about taking...
I’ll bet you didn’t know that puppetry and payments have a lot in common. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
Xapo, a bitcoin startup, has launched a wallet app for iOS, making its mobile wallet easy for consumers to use, Payments Source reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Consumer fears about beacons and privacy will evaporate as beacons become part of everyday life, panelists said at the M1 Summit conference in San Francisco on Thursday (Nov. 13), according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
