The U.S. government will replace roughly 9 million government-issued payment cards with EMV chip-and-PIN versions early next year in a push to increase awareness and use of the more secure cards, President Barack Obama announced on Friday (Oct. 14). Get the Full Story Complete the...
Twitter’s long-anticipated Buy button will go live next year, no later than March, VentureBeat is reporting. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...
As Apple Pay rolls out Monday (Oct. 20), it will suffer from two holes in its card acceptance system: corporate cards and prepaid cards. Although those absences may be short-lived, it plays into a very slow initial run for the Apple mobile pay play. Piper...
From his lips to your ears. It’s official. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, said that Apple Pay with be released on Monday (Oct. 20) along with the iOS 8.1 update. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
So here’s the good news: Famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen thinks Apple, as a tech company, will do “extraordinarily well” over the long term and is gaining strength. But in an interview with Bloomberg West, that’s sort of where the kudos stopped. Get the Full...
There’s one way to be certain that POS data can’t get stolen – don’t have data at the POS in the first place. That’s the innovation that Intel launched Wednesday (Oct. 15). Intel Data Protection Technology For Transactions creates an encrypted tunnel thru which cardholder...
American Express on Wednesday (Oct. 16) reported third-quarter net income of $1.5 billion, up 8 percent from $1.4 billion a year ago. The card brand also reported that diluted earnings per share was $1.40, up 12 percent from $1.25 a year ago. Get the Full...
Apple Pay training documents are now again pointing to Monday (Oct. 20) as the date when Apple wants retailers to start offering shoppers Apple Pay, according to a MacRumors story. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Mark Twain famously said “rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” and though the statement is actually a slight misquote of a correction Twain once sent to a newspaper for his incorrectly run obituary, it is a sentiment that Square can likely relate to...
