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Square Launches Food Delivery App
December 08, 2014

Square is taking the online food delivery startup Caviar that it recently acquired for $90 million and making it mobile, TechCrunch reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Apple, SIM Cards, And Payments
December 08, 2014

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Google Pays $19M Over Kids’ In-App Buying
December 08, 2014

Google will refund at least $19 million in in-app purchases by children that were “accidental or not authorized by the account holder,” according to a consent order that the FTC finalized last week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

U.S. Store Traffic Drops 11 Percent
December 08, 2014

If it seemed like U.S. stores weren’t quite so crowded on Black Friday, that wasn’t your imagination. RetailNext’s monthly count of store traffic and sales found that November store traffic was down 11.4 percent, Drug Store News reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Mobile
Chase Balances: No Password Needed
December 08, 2014

Chase customers using the bank’s mobile app can now see their balances without entering a user name or password, according to American Banker. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

New Stats Show Alipay Mostly Mobile
December 08, 2014

Alibaba issued new usage stats on Monday (Dec. 8) and it appears that most of Alipay’s transactions are now mobile, albeit just barely at 54 percent. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Point of Sale
Another POS Breach – This Time It’s Bebe
December 08, 2014

Looks like BeBe Stores—with about 200 stores in the U.S.—may be the next cyberthief retail chain victim, according to a report from Krebs On Security. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

Alternative Finances
How Many Consumers In Apple Pay’s Bushel Basket?
December 08, 2014

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Mobile Commerce
That’s A Lotta Deliveries – Instacart Valuation Tops $2 Billion
December 08, 2014

Grocery delivery operation Instacart has dropped another $100 million in Series C funding into its shopping cart, bringing its current valuation to more than $2 billion, reported TechCrunch. To put that into context, that’s five times its valuation from six months ago. Get the Full...