McDonald’s is going national with a mobile ordering and payment app, offering music and video downloads, and expanding online loyalty programs in an effort to increase sales at U.S. restaurants, according to Adweek. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Retailers love M-Commerce in all of its forms, whether it’s in-store barcode scanning, shopping while riding the subway or trying out a mobile payment methods. But an alert from Seeking Alpha points out the payments dark side of that mobile madness: the very real potential...
A variety of mobile services reportedly are helping Dolce Hotels and Resorts to transform its sales process to drive more leads. The move reportedly came despite reluctance from execs at the conference hotel chain, who didn’t see mobile’s potential for a return on investment. Get the...
A Silicon-Valley mobile payment company, including payment folk from Visa, Paypal and Apple, is toying with a new mobile payment security approach, one that envisions security shades of gray, as opposed to today’s more typical binary open/closed approach, according to a Patent the company announced...
To a degree that would likely shock an outsider, the payments industry loves a thrill. 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,...
If there ever was a sector screaming for modernization—and especially mobilization—it would be vending machines. The potential to know inventory in advance, to know which of the 10 machines nearby have three of the desired item you and your friends want, to be able to...
Amazon on Wednesday (Aug. 13) introduced its own mPOS package—to be called Amazon Local Register—and focused on the tune it knows that SMB retailers want to hear: lower merchant fees than Square and PayPal Here. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Mobile money platform Monitise has cut its annual revenue growth estimates for the second time, forecasting growth of between 31 and 33 percent, down from earlier projections of 40 and 50 percent earlier in the year. This was enough to cause shares to drop 15...
Ton of apps help parents find babysitters. But one, called CluckCluck, allows parents to not only communicate with them but pay them as well. PYMNTS.com spoke recently with co-founder Heather Estenson Joyce to learn more on how this payments app can help cash-strapped parents strapped...
