Mobile

CurrentC COO Goes On The Defensive
November 05, 2014

Officials with the not-yet-launched CurrentC mobile payment app from MCX have started trying to defend their app from comparisons with Apple Pay, saying that many of the unkind comments about CurrentC are not true. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Inside The Apple Pay Issuer Contracts
November 05, 2014

When Apple insists on its cut from Apple Pay transactions, it’s not kidding. According to details from a leaked copy of the contract, Apple can request a written certification that the amounts are accurate and if they dispute it, they get to hire an auditor....

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Visa Contactless Security Hole
November 03, 2014

A “major flaw” has been discovered within Visa contactless cards, where thieves in the U.K. were to sidestep a £20 limit and charge as much as £999,999.99 as long as they chose the option to select a foreign currency, according to a report in The...

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Wall Street Nervously Anticipates Alibaba’s First Earnings Tuesday
November 03, 2014

When Alibaba Group Holding reports its first earnings since going public on Tuesday (Nov. 4), Wall Street analysts will either be calmed or will royally freak out. All things considered, there’s nothing likely inbetween. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Apple Watch Launch Won’t Happen Before March 20
November 03, 2014

The launch for the Apple Pay-accepting Apple Watch will not happen until at least March 20, according to comments made by Apple Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores Angela Ahrendts and reported by 9-to-5 Mac. The official Apple word on the watch’s planned...

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The State of Plastic In A Digital World
November 02, 2014

Despite all of the massive change today in payments—whether it’s Apple Pay rewriting the payments rules or the ups-and-downs of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies—and the digital embraces of MasterCard and the Apple Pay love coming from Visa and then from the CEO at Discover...

Starbucks Claims 90 Percent Mobile Payments Market Share
October 31, 2014

Although Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said his coffee company has already found the recipe to capture a loyal base of mobile customers, he said the launch of Starbucks’ mobile order and pay app in December will be the single-most important technology innovation introduced by the...

QVC Uses TouchID With Its Own App
October 31, 2014

E-tailer QVC announced Thursday (Oct. 30) that it will let shoppers use the TouchID fingerprint recognition capabilities on recent iPhone models to authenticate purchases in-app instead of passwords or PINs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Wranx Startup Tests B2B Training Technique Through App
October 30, 2014

The U.K. startup Wranx has taken the spaced repetition learning technique and applied it to the mobile app side of the B2B industry in order to enable businesses to train staff better, and provide analytics back to the business on how staff is learning, Techcrunch reported....