Financial service companies are expected to invest about $110 billion in various payment technologies by 2017, with mobile getting a very healthy percentage of those funds, projects Frost & Sullivan. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Nobody in the real world likes failure. When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they plan to enjoy, not the many valuable lessons they will learn in the wake their inevitable failure – a reality is that 99.99...
Apple Pay is probably the best positioned mobile payments solution to emerge in a long time. When Apple announced Apple Pay it did in ‘two hours’ what no one else could do in ‘ten years’ – most notably brought NFC back into the map. Consumers...
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MasterCard wants to put its fingerprint on the next contactless payment option — literally. The company announced Friday (Oct. 17) it has partnered with Norwegian firm Zwipe to add a built-in fingerprint sensor to contactless payment cards. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Mobile ordering is a buzz in Portland’s Starbucks market, as the company announced a new app Thursday (Oct. 16) that will enable customers to order and place up from chosen location. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Alipay Wallet has confirmed 190 million annual active users and is delivering 45 million daily transactions, with more than half of that coming directly from Alipay transactions, reports Technode. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
Venture Capitalist and Web graphical browsers creator Marc Andreesen has resigned from eBay’s board, pointing to the planned split of PayPal and eBay as making it “the right time to step down,” according to Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Without announcing it, Apple has quietly rolled out a new SIM card on its iPads (but not iPhones) that allows users to “jump between AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile without having to swap it out or, more annoyingly, track down/purchase a new SIM card when you...
