Facebook Messenger, which officially joined the payments ecosystem in March 2015 when it added P2P payments, has reached another milestone: 800 active million users. That means, in theory, that there are 800 million users who could use Facebook as a P2P payment method. Facebook announced in...
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean technology giant, is bringing its mobile payments platform to three new countries and will also debut Samsung Pay across its Gear S2 smartwatches, the company said Wednesday (Jan. 6). As Reuters reported, the company noted on its Twitter account that...
Prepaid card and payments firm Blackhawk Network said on Wednesday (Jan. 6) that it has bought GiftCards.com. The latter company sells digital and physical prepaid cards through the site and also operates OmniCard, which sells reward and prepaid solutions for business clients. The deal is...
Chinese ride-hailing app company Didi Kuaidi is expanding its test drive service to unlock a whole new market of automobile eCommerce to its user base, the company announced. The test drive service, which was launched in October last year, allows users to take one of the 92...
Viewpost is rolling out a mobile app that will let SMBs send eInvoices from their devices. Max Eliscu, the company's CEO, explains how that can help B2B relationships and cash flow.
Technology continues to take commerce into a growing number of new environments and devices – from clothing and wearables, to smart homes and even retail stores. In 2016, nearly 5.5 million new devices are expected to get connected to the Internet every single day, spurring...
Welcome to 2016 — and at least the seventh year that everyone says will be the year of mobile payments. But it might just be a year that we begin to see some interesting changes take place and new moves being made. And four business...
Unless they do something egregiously wrong, professional sports — and the merchandising engines attached to their brands — usually enjoy the full profitable support of the local public. Even during stretches of below-.500 seasons, all it takes is some hard work by the players and...
The very fact that connecting every device, appliance and machine in a home and across a city seems like a plausible development within the next few years should be proof of the progress the Internet of Things has accomplished so far. However, it might take...
