A U.S. Patent application that Apple filed in late May was published Thursday (Oct. 9) and it provides some delightfully geeky peeks into what appears to be Apple Pay—or at least how Apple Pay was envisioned a few months before launch. Get the Full Story...
Investor extraordinaire Carl Icahn sees Apple Pay as one of several factors that is going to propel the Apple and its new iPhones. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday (Oct. 9), Icahn offered a variety of observations and insights into what...
Two PayPal execs have been quoted saying that PayPal could top a market capitalization of $100 billion. A Motley Fool writer, though, ran some calculations and concluded that the only way this makes sense is if PayPal intends to become a true processor. An idea,...
It’s way above my pay grade to weigh in on Carl Icahn’s proposal to Apple to accelerate its share buybacks. But the letter made for good reading, nonetheless. Someone did a whole lot of work to assemble a bunch of stats on Apple and its various products...
New research recently released by Contract Solutions indicates that customers abandon their digital shopping carts when their mobile experiences aren’t met. Although at first glance that result can seem on par with an announcement by astronomers that night is dark or a summer prediction from meteorologists...
Zapp wants to make real-time mobile payments – in store, online and through apps – an option in the U.K.. It wants to get there by integrating its system into bank apps and tapping into the Faster Payments rails. Get the Full Story Complete the...
The idea of email marketing might seem slightly less exciting when put next to something like a beacon-prompted push notification on a cool mobile device when near a physical store. But @Pay CEO John Killoran says that mobile buying has, to date, been a tremendous...
Square is merging the two things every payments geek needs: geolocation and making sure that your coffee is served hot and fresh. (For many payments firms, “fresh” is measured in months, but let’s not go there.) Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Shifting technology, new alliances and skepticism among young consumers are creating risks — as well as opportunities — for PayPal, according to Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
