‘Tis the season for holiday discounts, a bit of showrooming, bumper-to-bumper shopping mall traffic – and for those of us feeling particularly generous, holiday charitable donations. But according to a recent survey, for every $100 in donations a charity receives, it loses $96 to donor...
Apple started accepting PayPal in its online retail store in both the U.S. and the U.K. on Thursday (Dec. 11). Although the two companies have been exchanging words of not-niceness regarding its rivalry with mobile in-store payment (ApplePay versus in-store PayPal), its online relationship has...
This holiday season, mPOS is on fire. In preparation for increased online and in-store sales, retailers have prepped themselves with these mobile devices to eliminate long lines and provide better customer service. This month’s ROAM mPOS Tracker report follows these players, and shows an increasing...
PayPal will be pushing hard to advance password-free authentication now that a complete version of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) specifications have been published, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday (Dec. 10). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
In the latest attempt at an IBM-Apple product marriage, the two companies on Wednesday (Dec. 10) unveiled IBM MobileFirst, an iOS enterprise app package that, according to a statement issued by the two firms, “bring IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad...
Jack Dorsey, the founder of both Twitter and Square, rebels against the Wall Street quarter-to-quarter mindset and plans to keep investing in Square until he sees fit to shift it to profitability. In an interview with the New York Times, Dorsey bridled when asked about...
Looks like lots of folk will be leaving eBay—voluntarily or not—as it prepares for next year’s spin-out of PayPal. The company is preparing “at least 3,000” layoffs, which amounts to about 10 percent of its workforce, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. And eBay CEO...
There are now more indications that mobile purchases are now hitting the “more than 50 percent” tipping point. On Monday (Dec. 8), China mobile payment leader Alipay reported that—for the first time—more than half of its transactions were mobile. On Wednesday (Dec. 10), U.S. pizza...
The prospect of an Apple Pay Alibaba deal got a lot more likely on Tuesday (Dec. 9) when Alibaba’s Alipay payments unit said that it will now allow users to authenticate their accounts with the iPhone’s fingerprint sensor instead of a password, indicating, according to...
