BBVA has launched a new bot that allows Spanish customers to access financial information via Facebook and Telegram, as well as a tool for making payments from WhatsApp. Finextra reports that with around 86 percent of Spanish internet users accessing Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter or Instagram at...
Almost exactly one month ago, PayPal and Google made some news with a payment partnership that made PayPal a payment option inside of Android Pay wherever Android Pay is accepted — in-store, in-app and online. Yesterday, they did one better. Coming soon, to an Android...
Samsung Electronic launched its contactless mobile payment service Samsung Pay in the U.K. Tuesday (May 16) playing catchup to rivals Apple Pay and Android Pay, both of which have been in the country for nearly two years. According to media reports, consumers in the U.K....
Burger King, the fast-food chain operator, has a leg up on McDonald’s when it comes to letting customers order and pay for their food with their mobile phones, reported Bloomberg. Since December, Burger King has been testing mobile payments in the Miami area and is aiming...
It seems that mobile payments are finding perfect harmony with concertgoers. The latest mPOS Tracker™ catches up with Ben Taylor, COO of Front Gate Tickets, on how the company is using RFID technology to take concerts cashless. This issue digs into the many moves by...
From music to international commerce, mobile payment technology has the potential to change the way consumers pay for purchases and how companies do business. But can merchants find a way to make the technology appealing to consumers? The May PYMNTS mPOS Tracker™ features news and...
From bits of paper receipts to bytes across POS, payments have scaled technological heights globally. At an Innovation Project 2017 fireside chat, Mastercard president of Global Products and Solutions Gary Flood told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that the only constant across networks is change.
Most of the time, saying that some firm or other was a “totally different company five years ago” is a bit of hyperbole. However, in the case of PayPal, it really is the most accurate description — five years ago, PayPal had different leadership and...
If nothing else, Samsung’s certainly won the smartphone “buzz award” for 2017 so far. The Galaxy S8 has managed to inspire a lot of eager expectation over the last several weeks, as consumers waited to get their hands on the phone that Samsung hopes will...