TransferWise has snagged a big pile of investment dollars in a round led by one of the Facebook’s earliest backers, Andreessen Horowitz. The UK-based P2P money transfer startup and Facebook have reportedly been in talks that would see TransferWise provide remittance services for the social networking...
Samsung fans and mobile payment fanatics have something new to look forward to this year at Mobile World Congress. According to reports on Sammobile.com, Samsung will be unveiling the mobile payments platform they’ve developed with Visa alongside the Galaxy 6 at MCS this year. Get...
A new government report said China’s e-commerce markets racked up 13 trillion yuan ($2 trillion) in transactions in 2014, up 25 percent from 2013, Nikkei Asian Review reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Depending on ones perspective, the creation of the World Wide Web could reasonably be celebrated in March, December or January – depending on what you think actually constitutes the “Web” being born. Twenty-six years ago this March (2015), Sir Tim Berners-Lee first circulated his “informational...
Global payments provider TSYS, along with Ingenico Group, recently announced a new agreement to offer merchants a seamless and secure solution for accepting all payment types, according to a TSYS release. These payment types include magnetic stripe, EMV, NFC and Apple Pay.
Apple might want to take a bite out of Starbucks’ mobile payments strategy. 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 newsletter, PYMNTS Today....
Mobile commerce’s share will climb to 40 percent of all e-commerce transactions worldwide in 2015, and mobile will also push cross-device sales above its current 15-to-20-percent range, according to a new report from e-commerce marketing tech vendor Criteo. And while no one is about to...
Twentieth century history of America likes to point to the baby boomers as the transforming generation. But according to Forbes contributor Micah Solomon, the next big generation is the one that follows far behind the boomers: the millennials. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Even though the official changeover to EMV payment systems is scheduled for Oct. 1, some analysts familiar with the process say that many businesses will still not be EMV ready by the target date, and may take “many years” for the U.S. to be fully converted...
