MasterCard launched its Nearby App as a companion app for Apple Pay, enabling consumers to locate the 220,000+ merchants in the United States that can currently accept contactless payments.
What does it take to enable the future of commerce? We’re no longer talking contactless payments on just smartphones and tablets – the focus is now on turning every device into a commerce device, says MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer Ed McLaughlin. To coincide with...
There are few subjects that highlight the chasm of opinions between payments players quite like EMV. That EMV is coming: of that there can be no doubt. In a little more than a year, merchants will either have to have to upgrade their terminals to...
Talking revenue or net income in the billions isn’t something shocking for Apple, but hitting that billionth mark for sales of its iOS devices is, which apple is expected to do this quarter, according to a Seeking Alpha report released Wednesday (Oct. 22). Get the...
Discover CEO David Nelms declared late Tuesday (Oct. 21) that his brand–the largest of the card brands to not join Apple Pay–will indeed soon be an Apple Pay partner. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
Henry Ford didn’t invent the car, the internal combustion engine or the wheel— those honors go to Karl Benz, Nikolaus Otto and Eugene Langen (or Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci) and an unknown early human who lived before the era of patents. And yet when asked about...
Though beloved, there are few that would describe baseball as particularly innovative. And yet, as Fort Worth Cats Food and Beverage Director Robbie Fenyes told MPDs CEO Karen Webster in a recent interview, evolving from a “cash only” business was critically important for the health...
Apple’s launch of the new iPad’s yesterday is a timely reminder of the role and influence of tablets on the retail purchase experience. Research suggests that in the next two years, the web will influence $2 Trillion of retail spend in the US, or about...
As VeriFone looks out over the next decade in payments, it sees a world where terminals are as relevant as they are right now – with one big difference. Vin D’Agostino, VeriFone’s SVP of Global Commerce Enablement, tells MPD CEO Karen Webster that what’s different...
