PayRange Inc., creator of the world’s simplest mobile payment solution for machines, announced in a press release that it has signed an agreement with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company (SMCC) to expand its technology to millions of Japanese vending machines. While Japan has among the most advanced vending machine...
“How can you compete?” That was the big question that PayPal’s COO Bill Ready told Karen Webster he was asked multiple times a week two years ago when PayPal was on the verge of being spun out of eBay. The conventional wisdom then, Ready said,...
Wells Fargo said Tuesday (April 18) that its customers will be able to use PayPal to make near-field communication (NFC) in-store payments over Android phones. In an announcement, Wells said its banking customers can use their Wells Fargo debit or credit cards to use PayPal...
With more people preferring the ease that goes with cashless payments, all vendors at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will accept Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay via the festival’s point-of-sale provider Square. “[Coachella has] been rather militantly cash-only for the long...
Will Apple be the apple of the consumer’s eye when it comes to contactless payments? Cnet reports that the tech giant may just lap its peers in the contactless race, with Juniper Research estimating in data released Tuesday (April 11) that Apple Pay users will...
Dirk Rossmann GmbH, one of the largest drugstore chains in Germany, will soon accept Alipay at all of its branches. According to Finextra, the integration of Alipay Barcode Payment will allow Chinese tourists to use their Alipay App to pay at all of Rossmann’s checkouts...
Why bother using a $600 mobile wallet–equipped smartphone when a $2 debit card can do the job? According to Verifone’s Chief Strategy Officer Vin D’Agostino, it’s a question innovators haven’t yet answered fully but are honing in on. Check out Karen Webster’s interview with D’Agostino...
When mPOS solutions started to roll out in retail locations about a decade ago, many predicted a futuristic utopia devoid of long lines and bulging wallets. But these days, that fantasy is still far from reality. Even retailers equipped with mPOS terminals opt not to...
There are a bunch of people who’ve reinvented the phone - but not a single one that’s actually reinvented the phone call. Alan Truitt, chief business development officer for Teleperformance has a plan to do that, starting with the 34 billion calls a year that...