Mobile Commerce

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker | November 8-15
November 19, 2014

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Apple, PayPal Both Made Major Watch Payment Moves Tuesday
November 19, 2014

When Apple released its software developer kit on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the payment-enabled Apple Watch, it was signaling that its watch is coming soon. But not soon enough for PayPal, which also rolled out its watch-like payment mechanism support for its Pebble app, on...

Mobile
Ebay’s Shopper-to Shopper App Trial In San Diego
November 19, 2014

Ebay’s long history in E-Commerce (its Sept. 1995 launch made it one of the very first E-Commerce companies to launch, although Amazon’s July 1994 launch beat it by more than a year) has always been about consumer-to-consumer purchases. This week, it launched a geolocation-based app...

Apple Pay Expands To Hundreds of Grocery Stores
November 19, 2014

Apple Pay has signed on hundreds of grocery stores throughout the country this week, just in time for the Thanksgiving holidays. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Will Apple Pay Increase Online Sales?
November 19, 2014

Adobe Digital Index says that online stores that enable digital wallet payment options are likely to experience a higher conversion rate, with customers 10% more likely to check out when a mobile wallet option is available. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Google Wallet Now Bribing Shoppers To Join
November 19, 2014

If you can download Google Wallet and can somehow persuade enough friends—OK, if you’re trying to force them to use Google Wallet, maybe you better go for acquaintances and distant relatives from your spouse’s family—to do the same, you could pull in $100. Get the...

Apple Exec Eddy Cue Explores The Apple Pay Experience
November 18, 2014

Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue was featured yesterday on The Tech Report in a segment that utilized the iPhone 6 to make purchases using the newest mobile wallets solution, Apple Pay. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Why Global Financial Inclusion Programs Fail
November 18, 2014

For well over a decade, players across the payments space and all around the world have been trying to crack the code on delivering mobile financial services to the un-and-underbanked consumer. And despite many great ideas and the urgent need to move those without bank...

Mobile Payment Startup Taps Into Indian Villages
November 18, 2014

Ezetap, a mobile payment startup, wants to connect small Indian villages with business and is using its mPoS to do so, Business Standard reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...