Twitter’s “in-the-moment” commerce strategy is part of its plan to further monetize the social networking service, but Twitter still seems to be unable to find a way to expand its commerce plans quickly enough to turn around a profit. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Tencent has released new software for smartphones and smartwatches that pushes the eCommerce company further into payments and stacks it against its top competitors Google, Alibaba and Xiaomi. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
As Alibaba and Tencent square off for yet another battle — this one over mobile movie-ticket sales — Tencent ally Beijing Weiying Technology has raised $105 million from investors for its WePiao ticket sales service, Tech in Asia reported on Tuesday (April 28). Get the...
Apple Pay has made a major pick-up in its quest to sign on retailers – and one that comes as a particularly ominous sign for yet-to-launch rival mobile wallet platform CurrentC. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
While Apple doesn’t like to speak specifics about how Apple Pay is doing — transaction-wise at least — the company does like to highlight one key metric: how many devices it’s selling that enable consumers to use its mobile payments app. Get the Full Story...
Discover cardholders can soon use those cards to make mobile payments via Apple Pay. 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...
China Telecom – the nation’s largest telecom operator – has officially teamed up with Alibaba to roll out low cost ($48) smartphones to citizens in rural China. The deal with China Telecom – and access to its 186 million subscribers – is part of a...
As PYMNTS noted last week, there’s no shortage of quantitative data on the Internet. It’s barely an exaggeration to state that whatever statistic one needs – no matter how obscure – someone has gathered it and posted it on the Web somewhere. The problem isn’t finding...
While Americans looking for sartorial advice might not think to themselves that a bunch of computer programmers in Northern California would be their go-to source for advice on what is fashion’s cutting edge, it seems Google is not content to just answer all of America’s...
