Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...
In March the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ruled that Bitcoin would be taxed as property and not currency. In many ways this defeated the purpose of recognizing the cryptocurrency as a medium. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
A U.S. District Court judge on April 10 dismissed litigation accusing three leading card issuers of colluding to require cardholders to enter into arbitration to settle disputes instead of class-action litigation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
In Part Two of this exclusive series, MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer, Ed McLaughlin gives Karen Webster the view from his perch on who’s doing the most game-changing stuff in mobile, which represent the biggest opportunity of all and where the “white spaces” are that...
ComScore just published its 2014 US Digital Roadmap which is stuffed with amazing data points. We’ve boiled it down to the 5 essential truths about payments, commerce and the US digital consumer and added some of our own key insights so you can plug and...
The path toward mass adoption for its mWallet has been littered with hurdles for the normally invincible Google, but the online search giant remains committed to its payment project and optimistic about its future. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
As bitcoin ATM’s spring up around the nation and world that give consumers a real-world location to make cash-to-virtual currency (and vice-versa) exchanges, Cryptex is going one step further by offering the first global Bitcoin-to-cash ATM and debit card. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
PayPal Here, PayPal’s app for merchants, has released its newest update focused on making merchants’ user experience easier. The new app, which is out for both iPhone and Android, boasts a redesigned look and a series of performance updates. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
From customer service to customer acquisition, merchants are using Beacons powered to enhance the relationships with their customers. Here’s a look at some of the early adopters and what they hope to achieve using this new technology.