While plenty of startups have ideas they think will change the retail world, only those who gain enough followers and generate enough interest even create an opportunity for themselves to succeed on the big stage. For ShopRunner, that moment may have just arrived. The online...
In an effort to incentivize more customers to shop via its popular mobile app, Amazon is pushing out a mobile referral program. As TechCrunch recently reported, Amazon’s offering is like many typical referral programs, with a twist: The company doesn’t just want new accounts registered; it...
Despite appearances earlier this week that Apple had lost out on bringing Apple Pay to China — with UnionPay’s announcement that it had selected British firm Powa to help it construct and launch its mobile payments platform — it seems appearances can be highly deceiving. Apple Inc....
There is winning, and then there is dominating the field. Apparently, Amazon feels a little more of the latter is necessary for its mobile efforts. Despite already having the number one shopping app in app stores, Amazon is hoping to bring more customers into the mobile...
For a brief period in the 90s and early 2000s, it was more important for small businesses just to have websites than to make sure they functioned as smooth eCommerce portals. Now, however, those are two sides of the same coin, and publisher Purch is...
International money transfer platform Pangea launched its new debit-to-debit transfer product yesterday (Dec. 17). The new offering will allow users to send money via the Pangea Money Transfer mobile app by just using the debit card numbers, rather than providing bank account details. According to...
Almost no one in the world is familiar with the name Cornelius McGillicuddy, and only the most avid baseball fans would know him better by his nickname, Connie Mack. Mack, FYI, was a baseball player in the early days of the professional game in the...
Apple Pay hasn’t even launched in China yet, and it’s already got some major competition from China’s biggest credit card company. UnionPay Network Payments, a subsidiary of China UnionPay, has formed a partnership with U.K. startup Powa to bring a mobile payments system to market that...
‘Twas the week of mobile payments news. And all through the (industry) house, Big companies had news to share – but few were quiet as a mouse. The mobile pay players were stirring (and so were the payment networks and issuers). In the hopes that...
