Mobile Commerce

MasterCard Opens Tech Hub And Preps For MasterPass In India
February 05, 2015

MasterCard has opened its largest Tech Hub outside of the U.S. in Pune, India, and plans to roll out its mobile payments system in April, the card brand said on Wednesday (Feb. 4). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Target to Open 15 Stores in Urban Areas in 2015
February 04, 2015

In an effort to respond to the increasingly urban, digitally connected population, Target has announced the opening of 15 stores this year in major American cities such as San Francisco, San Diego, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Dubbed “TargetExpress,” these stores are only 20,000 square feet and...

Study: Mobile Shoppers Likely to Shop From Home
February 04, 2015

Mobile shopping has come to be understood as a way for brick-and-mortar stores to increase traffic and sales inside the four walls of their establishment, but a survey from November 2014 released by Contact Solutions shows that the idea of the “showrooming” customer is superseded...

Wirecard Targets Summer For Release Of Its Wearable Wallet
February 04, 2015

German payments company Wirecard gave the world a first peek at its new wearable device that functions like a digital wallet worn as a wristband.  The device, called the Smart Band, can be used to store credit cards, ID cards and even tickets. Though only...

Blurred Lines: Card Present And Card-Not-Present
February 04, 2015

Tim Cook may say that 2015 is the “Year of Apple Pay” but 2015 might be the year in which the split between card-present, NFC, in-store, card-not-present, online and in-app, begin to disappear, Matt Barr, SVP of Emerging Payments for the U.S., MasterCard told MPD...

Latin American Mobile Smart Wallet Gets $19M In New Funds
February 04, 2015

Last month, PayPal found itself with a new competitor in Latin American mobile wallet startup Yepex. Now, Yellow Pepper, the company that started that mobile wallet, got some extra funding that could heat up the competition even more. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

China Blasts Past The Half-Billion Mobile User Mark
February 04, 2015

China has blasted past the half-billion mobile users mark. A report from the Beijing government’s China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) says the number of mobile Internet users climbed to 557 million as of December 2014, up 11.4 percent from the year before, TechCrunch reported....

Mobile Commerce
As Mobile Commerce Grows, M-Commerce Fraud Grows Even Faster
February 04, 2015

The number of retailers who offer customers a mobile commerce option has doubled in the past year — but m-commerce fraud is growing even faster, according to a new study from LexisNexis. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

60 Percent Of Shoppers Say Payment Security Is Inadequate
February 04, 2015

Current retailer security for protecting credit card and personal information isn’t strong enough. That’s the takeaway from a Bizrate survey released on Tuesday (Feb. 3) that found 60 percent of consumers said payment security is inadequate at brick-and-mortar stores, websites and mobile commerce sites and...