A report from Ericsson released Tuesday (Nov. 18) shows some startling growth of Internet-connected devices in the U.S., with 90 percent of U.S. households having three or more such devices, while almost half have five or more such devices and almost 25 percent have seven...
How’s this for a little good news this holiday shopping season. Merchants report that conversions are up, order rejections are down and fraud losses are stable – even down a smidge in the mobile and web store categories. In fact, CyberSource’s 2014-15 Online Fraud Benchmark...
Mobile Payments currently accounts for about $50 billion, but that number is expected to nearly triple by 2019 to $142 billion, the New York Times cited from a report from Forrester Research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
The full capacity of Apple Pay is yet to be seen since its September launch, but it’s predicted that Apple’s mobile wallet could make up for as much as 20 percent of the payments market by 2019, Investors.com reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Visa execs Charles W. Scharf, CEO and Global Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Jim McCarthy sat down in two separate discussions to talk about payment innovations within the past year, as well as Visa’s token business and Apple Pay. Get the Full Story Complete...
Seamless, the company behind the mobile payment solution SEQR, recruited Beverly Cole as its new U.S. Head of Sales, according to a company release. Previously, Cole held various lead positions in finance and technology, and most recently comes form First Data, where she was SVP...
McDonalds is now reporting that Apple Pay is the payment mechanism behind 50 percent of all of its tap-to-pay transactions, which is more impressive than it sounds given the many years McDonalds has been accepting contactless payments. McDonalds has also been creative–although possibly impractical–about taking...
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the internet was on fire last week, and nearly broke. Yes, there was that Kim Kardashian Paper magazine cover that apparently got a few clicks. But what really set tongues a waggin’ – in payments at least –...
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