Compared to the U.S. mobile payments market, China is light years ahead, particularly when it comes to getting consumers on board with actually using mobile payments. That’s something the U.S. market hasn’t quite found the recipe for. Now, however, it appears the battle between China’s...
Starbucks and Dunkin’ have cracked it. Walmart Pay seems to have all of the ingredients to do it, too. Facebook and Messenger could but haven’t yet. Android Pay has acknowledged that it’s critical to its success and its latest announcements suggest they are working on...
In a mobile payments environment that is frequently likened to a war, an era of peace and good feeling has broken out between two of the competitors. Samsung has announced a final deal that will make China’s most popular mobile payments platform — the Alibaba-backed...
There’s never a shortage of news from the mobile payments players, and this week two of them made plenty of news across the ecosystem. That’s why PYMNTS’ 5-in-1 Daily Data Dive brings you the latest data points you may have missed from two major players in...
Normally focused on exercise, Fitbit appears to be considering the (business) health benefits of mobile payments. Reuters reports that the fitness wearables company has purchased wearable technology assets from Coin, a startup in the business of NFC devices (and who, earlier this year, struck a deal...
Mobile payments make for interesting pairings — a fact demonstrated earlier today by Alibaba and Samsung. The Chinese eCommerce giant and the Korean device powerhouse are joining forces to make it easier to pay the Alibaba way via Samsung devices. Going forward, Samsung Electronics plans...
PayPal’s CEO Dan Schulman made it pretty clear during his company’s analyst day yesterday (May 18) that his vision for PayPal is about much more than being a digital payments platform and much, much more than just a “checkout” button on a website. The “new...
Pali Bhat, global head of payment products at Google, tells Karen Webster that making mobile payments stick with users in the U.S. is going to take more than just tapping-and-paying in-store. Bhat describes the slew of cross-channel payments capabilities and new partnerships, unveiled yesterday at...
When Google first gave a sneak peek of Android Pay a smidge less than a year ago on May 28, 2015, the knee-jerk reaction of many payments pundits was to call it a “copy/paste version of Apple Pay.” When Android Pay launched, it had the backing...