If the future of mobile payments and mobile commerce is all about Millennials and P2P, then Venmo’s could be in the right place at the right time. Well, if you believe what the analysts say. Forrester projects that the P2P payments market will reach $17 billion...
The old parable of the chicken and the egg doesn’t seem to hold much water when applied to the decidedly modern sectors of mobile payments and online and mobile gaming, but if larger revenue streams are the end goal, providers can’t wait until they come...
A new estimate for the global mobile payments market has high hopes for the mobile payments ecosystem. And it comes with a $650 billion figure. A new report from global market research firm TrendForce suggests that, by the end of 2016, the total estimated revenue for...
Visa’s digital side is ready to make another Super Bowl appearance. As part of a new partnership with the NFL, Visa has made a deal to provide the roughly 700 NFC-enabled POS terminals for cardholders who want to use their smartphone to swipe, tap or click-to-pay....
Before Apple could land Apple Pay in China’s growing mobile payments market, China’s second-largest Internet company, Tencent, announced Thursday (Jan. 28) that its WeChat mobile wallet has arrived in Hong Kong. Hong Kong users who are participating in the pilot program of the WeChat Wallet service...
In case there’s a doubt about the momentum of the mobile payments market, just take a look at the new report from Adyen, the global payments firm. In its latest quarterly Mobile Payments Index, which tracks mobile payments data from browser-based transactions from its customers,...
Quarter after quarter, Starbucks’ earnings remind everyone why CEO Howard Schultz can, time and time again, call his coffee company the “undisputed leader in mobile commerce.” He confirmed that assertion during the company’s first quarter earnings call with analysts when he revealed that 21 percent of...
Payment technology services provider Global Payments announced yesterday (Jan. 20) its partnership with Montreal-based technology company Mobeewave to provide a new add-on-free mobile payment acceptance solution. The collaboration will allow Mobeewave’s Canadian clients to make secure, in-person payment transactions, made with any contactless credit card...
All was a little quiet on the main stage for the major mobile pay players that PYMNTS tracks data about, but that doesn’t mean all was quiet on the mobile payments front. To get a taste for the mobile payments momentum in the third full...
