When people say someone is as “rich as Croesus,” they’re talking of to a time (B.C. time) when gold was first starting to be used as a currency. A time when Croesus of Mermnadae, the last King of Lydia, had accumulated an ungodly amount of gold...
While smartphones seem to be progressively devouring the day for most Americans, mobile commerce and mobile payments are lagging far behind the other uses of mobile devices, according to a new pair of surveys. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Target will pay almost $4 million to settle accusations that it charged California consumers higher prices than the retailer advertised because of faulty checkout scanners, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
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Frequent customers of Walmart will now have the chance to order their groceries online to be picked up at their local store at certain trial locations, AZ Central reports. The service is being demoed in a few stores in Arizona, Denver, and select locations around Walmart’s headquarters...
Two years ago, the Federal Reserve was looking to take a decade to review how to make payments a faster process, commissioning study after study on how best to do it. Yet the industry doesn’t go at the Fed’s speed, and they now realize that...
Hoping to stay ahead of an increasingly competitive Indian mobile banking market, ICICI Bank announced that it will make its Pockets mobile wallet available on Google Play, even to those who do not have ICICI bank accounts, according to company sources. Get the Full Story Complete...
It seems Google might be considering moving beyond NFC in its quest to compete with Apple Pay, according to new data published in The Information. The search-giant has reportedly been quietly testing a contextually-aware mobile, bluetooth-based payment system codenamed “Plaso” both in-house and with some...
McDonald’s has recently announced that it has named Margo Georgiadis, former president of Google Americas, to its board of directors as part of a shake-up that has resulted in longtime President and CEO Don Thompson’s retirement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
