Craigslist isn’t exactly a beacon of success as a company that’s been struggling to make its outdated platform relevant, but there’s one startup that plans on taking it on in a big way. Enabling mobile payments between buyers and sellers across its marketplace. That’s the...
T-Mobile is pulling the plug on its mobile payments business — two years after it took on the check cashing industry. The company’s Mobile Money service, which was launched in 2014, allowed customers to buy and add credit to a T-Mobile Visa card that could be...
With the addition of new capabilities, a restaurant waitlisting service is aiming to save diners time, both before and after their meal. TechCrunch reports that NoWait — which offers an app that allows users to virtually queue up for a table at casual dining restaurants (many...
Mobile payments, as it always does, made a lot of news this week. We dug deep to find the 10 need-to-know stats that make their mark this week. $175 Billion | PayPal’s decade of mobile payments volume PayPal has officially been in the mobile payments...
ProPay, a TSYS company, has thrown its weight behind Samsung Pay. The company announced yesterday (April 5) that it has added Samsung Pay to its payments solutions suite in order to provide its merchants another mobile payment option. This means that ProPay merchants with the...
A startup called Cookies wants to be like Venmo — but in Europe. And as its cofounder, Lamine Cheloufi, told TechCrunch back in December: “The payment field in Europe is kind of broken.” But what was Cookies’ solution? It was a bit of a mystery about...
A year and two months before the world would be introduced to the iPhone, the notion of buying anything on a mobile device other than a ringtone — much less using it to actually initiate the purchase and pay for the item — was nary more than...
Alipay, the digital payments platform, of Alibaba’s financial arm, Ant Financial, is ready for its biggest global expansion: Europe. The announcement that Alipay will be launching in Europe this summer will give its massive 450+ million active Chinese consumers the chance to use the digital...
It is a spring for big anniversaries it seems. Last week, Apple celebrated a milestone of 40 years in existence, and this month, PayPal’s mobile money is ringing in its first decade. “On April 6, 2006, seven years after PayPal’s first foray into mobile payments,...