The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will decide whether to classify Airbnb as an online booking service or real estate agent this month, amid a battle against the company from a tourism group, according to Reuters. The backlash against the company...
Google sent a letter to the Federal Reserve, asking the U.S. central bank to consider modeling FedNow after the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework used in India, The Economic Times (ET) reported on Sunday (Dec. 15). FedNow is the new interbank real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service...
Indonesian delivery app Gojek has announced it will buy 5 percent of taxicab company Blue Bird, in an effort to stay competitive with rivals like Grab, according to a report by Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Commercial payments technology company WEX announced on Monday (Dec. 16) that it has reached an agreement to manage Valero Energy‘s fleet fuel card program, according to a press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
PayPal and Citi have grown their partnership to allow institutional clients of Citi to make payments into their customers’ PayPal digital wallets, according to a release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Photos of faces and 3D masks have fooled facial recognition checkpoints at airports, as well as payment systems, but they can’t fool Apple’s Face ID systems, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
In today’s top news in payments, the U.S. Department of Justice is expanding its antitrust probe to include Google’s online shopping comparison tool, and Visa warns of an increase in fuel dispenser POS cyberattacks. Also, Uber is negotiating the sale of Uber Eats to India’s...
In the mobile order-ahead space, consumers are not getting what they ordered – and that doesn’t mean burgers or salads. What consumers really want from mobile ordering is … more mobile ordering. A recent National Restaurant Association (NRA) survey found that 43 percent of consumers...
Meat and seafood brand Licious, based in Bengaluru, India, has raised $30 million in a Series E funding round led by Singapore-based Vertex Growth Fund, TechCrunch reported on Monday (Dec. 16). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
