Mobile Commerce

Mobile To Fuel Holiday eCommerce
October 28, 2014

U.S. e-commerce sales are on track to beat last year’s numbers by $61.4 billion — a figure that eMarketer reported will continually increase as mobile commerce draws in a larger e-commerce audience. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Twitter Struggling To Articulate Its Payments Strategy
October 28, 2014

It’s no secret Twitter wants to be the next big player in E-commerce, but it is a mystery, at least to those listening in to Monday’s (Oct. 27) call with investors, how. Some three-and-a-half months after buying CardSpring, a payments infrastructure firm, company executives had...

Apple Pay
Quick Signups: In 72 Hours, More Than One Million Cards On Apple Pay
October 28, 2014

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that more than one-million payment cards were activated within Apple Pay within 72 hours of its launch a week ago. Cook also dismissed the CVS and Rite Aid decision to back down to MCX and stop accepting Apple Pay as...

Merchant Innovation
McDonald’s Digital Payments Imperative
October 28, 2014

The war on obesity is starting to wrack up casualties from causes other than diabetes and heat disease. McDonalds has seen its profits take a 30 percent hit in Q3 2014.  The problems on U.S. soil with changing opinions on fast food were compounded by...

Apple Pay
An Alipay, Apple Pay “Marriage”?
October 28, 2014

Alibaba’s executive chairman, Jack Ma, said late Monday (Oct. 27) that Alibaba would like to partner with Apple on financial payments, but offered no details on what such a deal might look like. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Verifone Gets Real Boost From Apple Pay
October 28, 2014

Wall Street is starting to notice the many benefactors of payments changed fueled by Apple Pay and at the top of that list is now VeriFone, reports Barron’s. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Apple Pay’s Next Use Case: Hotel Door Keys
October 27, 2014

Apple is talking with multiple companies about using Apple Pay’s NFC to replace public transit tickets as well as building keycards, according to a report in The Information. Apple is talking with HID Global and Cubic, which both specialize in making secure keycard building access and...

Guess What Has A Secret NFC Chip? (Hint: It Begins With An “i”)
October 27, 2014

When it was announced that Apple was adding TouchID to the next gen iPad, some questioned if it was a precursor to making ApplePay available as well. That seemed unlikely, since the iPad did not seem to come with an NFC Chip. Get the Full...

MasterCard Nearby Launched as Companion App for Apple Pay
October 27, 2014

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.