Conventional wisdom would say that delivering a solution that’s faster, better and smarter is impossible since you often sacrifice one or two of those attributes to get the other(s). But Fiserv’s SVP of Emerging Payments, Ginger Schmeltzer says that all three are, in fact, what...
A Silicon Valley startup called Magic, which promises to deliver anything a customer wants anywhere in the U.S. (as long as it’s legal, physically possible and not too “unusual”), has already logged 17,000 requests in its first 48 hours of operation, TechCrunch reported on Monday...
First it was Chinese authorities investigating Alibaba for letting fake and substandard goods be sold through its online marketplaces. Then the Securities and Exchange Commission wanted to know why Alibaba didn’t reveal that investigation before its record-setting, $25 billion IPO last September. Now — with...
Google has effectively acquired Softcard, the mobile payments system backed by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, and will pay the mobile carriers to enable Google Wallet on the Android smartphones they sell, the companies announced on Monday (Feb. 23). Get the Full Story Complete the form...
A new generation of mobile ads have made their way to Apple Passbook and Google Wallet. 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...
The British fashion app Grabble, which uses Tinder-style swipes to help customers make fashion purchases from retailers, just landed a $1.8 million fundraising round from a series of angel investors, as the company seeks to expand to the U.S. and Asia within the year. Get...
Target is blurring the lines between mobile and bricks-and-mortar — a tactic that’s getting customers who use its mobile app to spend more in stores, a Target executive told a conference audience at eTail West 2015. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
China’s Tencent launched a version of its WeChat mobile chat service in Africa late in 2013, and now the chat-app giant has used WeChat Africa to make its first investment in an African startup: the “micro-jobbing” platform M4JAM, according to Ventureburn. Get the Full Story...
In a press release from Feb. 17, Fiscal Systems Inc. and P97 Networks announced a partnership to accelerate mobile commerce for retail fuel and convenience stores at the Western Petroleum Marketers Association National Convention and Convenience Store Expo in Las Vegas. Get the Full Story...
