Chinese consumers are planning to celebrate the Chinese New Year by traveling outside of the country, prompting UnionPay to expand its acceptance footprint. In a press release, the payments company – citing a recent report from Ctrip.com covering travel plans for the Chinese New Year,...
Cash as king in the Land Down Under? Cash as the conduit to Apple Pay inroads in the Land Down Under? News came this week that Apple Pay has support for dual-network debit cards. As noted previously, the default option that had been in place –...
Payment company Square, popular for its square-shaped mobile card reader, has released an in-app payments software development kit (SDK) that will give developers and sellers alike a new way to process payments. The company announced on Wednesday (Jan. 9) that the SDK would allow a...
Visa and SiriusXM Connected Vehicles Services, a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings, have announced they are teaming up to launch a new in-vehicle payment solution. It has been projected that new services from the connected car space — on-demand mobility services, and data-driven services like applications,...
WhatsApp, Facebook’s messaging app, is still working to launch its digital payments service nationwide in India. WhatsApp Pay, which is facilitated by the Indian government’s UPI payments system, began testing its service in the country earlier this year with around one million users. Since then,...
Tencent, an internet-based technology company based in China, and LINE, a hugely popular messaging app in Japan, have teamed up to provide payment services for Japanese businesses that want to appeal to the growing number of Chinese tourists in the country, according to the Nikkei...
7-Eleven, the convenience store operator, announced on Monday (Nov. 26) that participating stores in Canada will now accept Chinese mobile payment systems Alipay and WeChat Pay. In a press release, 7-Eleven said it is working with CITCON, the cross-border mobile payment company, to make this...
Cashierless payments are set to increasingly be part of the convenience store checkout model. To that end, 7-Eleven said earlier this week that is debuting scan-and-go options at 14 of its Dallas-based stores, with the goal of bringing that technology to additional locations through 2019....
Apple’s taken a beating since announcing its Q4 earnings last week. The stock price is off nearly 7 percent, even though its trillion-dollar market cap remains intact. Analysts and the media smelled blood in the water after CEO Tim Cook said Apple would stop reporting...