Munich is now the first European airport to launch PayPal QR codes for mobile, cash-free purchases in all of its shops and Eurotrade retail subsidiaries, ftnnews.com reported on Monday (May 10). Running 41 shops, the retail subsidiary of Munich Airport covers entities in news, watches, jewelry, and fashion brands....
As the economy has started to reopen and vaccinated global citizens look to scratch their travel itch, the tally of just how much damage the global pandemic caused the travel sector is just now becoming more clear. Across the segment globally, it has been reported...
After nearly a full year of waiting, WhatsApp payments have been cleared by Brazil’s central bank to go live, enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) payments capabilities for its 120 million Brazilian users, 86 percent of whom claim to use the app every day. WhatsApp was shut down in...
Earnings season is a deluge of data, to be sure, but after a few weeks of conference calls, press releases and supplemental slide decks, some common themes emerge. For the tech giants, we are getting a sense of just how high the walled gardens they’ve...
One of the goals of the connected economy is to turn simple things into payment mechanisms. Homes, for example, will become connected commerce command centers. Appliances will become part of the Internet of Things (IoT) payments platform. And cars will connect their passengers to everything...
Mishawaka Utilities has introduced PayPal as an available payment method for utility customers, who can also pay through Venmo, according to a Tuesday (May 4) announcement. “Adding PayPal as a payment option gives our customers more flexibility while still allowing them to make payments securely...
We’re in the midst of a sea change in the connected economy. The shift is underway from apps to ecosystems, with a single digital front door as point of access. The app, then, gives rise to the super app, which lets consumers plan, manage, spend and...
With cryptocurrencies like bitcoin beset by price spikes (and slides), a nonprofit organization plans to test the concept of a U.S. central bank digital currency in at least five pilot programs. The U.S. nonprofit Digital Dollar Project said Monday (May 3) it will roll out...
Companies now have the ability to use Square Invoices to take automated clearing house (ACH) payments, according to a Wednesday (April 28) announcement from Square. Square Invoices comes at no cost to Square merchants, according to the announcement, which noted that ACH transactions have a 1 percent...
