Despite Visa and MasterCard still struggling to get into the Chinese market, Apple has found one way, working out an agreement with UnionPay to make it easier for Apple apps to be purchased there. In exchange, Apple will let Chinese consumers pay with UnionPay for...
Contrary to recent inviting signals from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, executives with MasterCard and Visa are finding it increasingly difficult to get permission to do business in China. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) has agreed to buy Atlanta’s Vendormate for an unspecified amount. GHX handles business network connectivity and payments issues for some 4,000 hospitals and 18,000 provider facilities, which the firm says repreasents “more than 80 percent” of U.S. hospitals and their U.S....
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At fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff’s store in New York’s fashionable Soho district, a dressing room has a digital mirror that identifies garments, makes accessory recommendations and can summon sales associates to bring in that garment in alternative colors and sizes. But what makes this digital...
Google Wallet has officially pulled out of the in-app business—although it will continue to handle such purchases until March 2, 2015—and has gone out of its way to neither offer a replacement service nor to steer any business to any existing service. Get the Full...
In case the E-commerce giant in China hasn’t proved it’s place in the E-commerce shopping marketplace yet, its new mobile apps might give it another edge. And they come equipped for Apple Pay. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Ikea wants the online share of its sales to grow from almost nothing to 20 percent by 2020, and the retailer is rolling out a new ecommerce platform to push toward that goal, Retail Week reported on Thursday (Nov. 13). Get the Full Story Complete...
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