Here’s a nice way to share a little holiday spirit: Mobile payments startup HouseTab will donate five meals to Food Bank for New York City each time a new user downloads and registers HouseTab’s iOS or Android app until Jan. 3, 2015 — and the...
By the year 2020, 90 percent of the world’s population over 6 years of age will have a mobile phone, making them candidates for mobile payments, according to the annual Mobility Report that Swedish networking giant Ericsson released this month.
Despite the often-declared goal of digital wallets to let users leave their physical wallets at home, a startup called StreetSmart is going about the problem a different way: Giving the traditional wallet a high-tech makeover with backup battery and Bluetooth locator to recharge a phone...
After pulling in $30 million in funding last year, a mobile payments startup is giving away $20 bills from a vending machine at a Berkeley campus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
China UnionPay, the country’s only payment card provider, is working on an Android payment app to join the Apple Pay implementation that UnionPay is expected to launch in early 2015, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Nov. 25). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
A report from analyst firm CCS Insight predicts that Windows Mobile will overtake both Android and BlackBerry to become the second most-popular business mobile OS, by the end of 2016. Apple’s iOS is expected to retain the lead. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
A consumer survey has Apple Pay users saying that they are three times more likely to spend $250 or more than those using other mobile wallets, according to a Computerworld story about the survey from Retale. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Gartner Security Analyst Avivah Litan is arguing that many Apple Pay transactions are missing the value of Apple’s security approach because of POS issues. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
MasterCard sees mobile payment security as crucial, but it’s power is relevant only to the point that shoppers are actually using it. And with Apple Pay, that is starting to happening meaningfully. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
