Square has opened its first pop-up store in the U.K., following the company’s first store opening in New York City last month. According to Finextra, the store is located in Birmingham’s Great Western Arcade and will be open until Sept. 16 in Unit 6 of...
Alipay has partnered with Zapper, the fast-growing mobile payment, customer insights and digital marketing platform developed in South Africa, so Chinese tourists can use their smartphones to pay via QR code while traveling through South Africa. According to news from Finextra, Chinese tourists will be able...
Though still perhaps an overlooked part of the market, wearables and the people who own them are emerging as an important piece of the digital commerce landscape currently under construction. Consumers who own wearables own more devices than those who don’t, shop online more often,...
Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, is now available for Chinese tourists at all 242 Starbucks locations across Malaysia. Chinese tourists can find the nearest Starbucks through the in-app Discovery platform and then pay for their drinks...
Like Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0, and Vegetables 2.0 (And, yes, that’s a thing. Have you ever had fried brussels sprouts?), 3D-Secure 2.0 is also taking something in need of an upgrade and making it better. In this case, though, that upgrade comes to a security...
Customers with a Barclays bank account can now make payments simply by asking Siri to do it for them. 9to5Mac reported that the feature, added to the latest version of the company’s iOS app, uses the Siri integration for payment apps Apple introduced with iOS...
Things have been looking a bit more difficult for food delivery startup Blue Apron. After months of facing concerns that its competitive future may be limited now that Amazon has officially entered its space, now it has been hit by a lawsuit from a disgruntled...
Alibaba rival Tencent is gearing up to create a competing credit scoring system as it heats up its battle against Alibaba. According to a news report in The Financial Times, two years ago Ant Financial, the payment arm of Alibaba, rolled out Sesame Credit, using...
Payworks, a provider of point-of-sale (POS) payment infrastructure, announced news on Thursday (Aug. 3) that its payment gateway technology will be supporting the integration of Alipay, the mobile payment provider operated by Ant Financial Services Group, for mobile payment providers and Chinese consumers across the...