Mobile Commerce

MasterPass Moves Tokens Online
October 20, 2015

MasterCard announced yesterday (Oct. 19) that it will integrate its tokenized checkout experience within MasterPass, which will provide the security benefits of tokenization for online and in-app shoppers who use MasterPass. By using its MasterCard Digital Enablement Service, MasterCard can provide the fully tokenized experience for...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay Celebrates Its First Birthday!
October 20, 2015

So what should they wish for when they close their eyes and blow out the candles? We decided to ask the experts. Check out what 13 of the best and brightest in payments and commerce had to say on the subject. The mood is mostly...

Retailers Want To Grow, But Can’t Agree On How
October 19, 2015

Just about every retailer knows that if they’re not ready to adapt to changes in the market, they might as well close up shop. Whether it is quickly and efficiently setting up eCommerce operations on every social network imaginable or managing stock inventory with a...

Cool
Disrupting Ticketing With Digitization
October 19, 2015

There is no shortage of ways to buy and sell tickets to live events on the Web through the magic of the Internet. With few exceptions, there are very few events that one cannot capture a ticket to with a working Internet connection and a...

Mobile Commerce
Pinterest’s Payments Push, Documents Leaked
October 19, 2015

In an ambitious set of financial projections, Pinterest is looking for significant growth in its sales and monthly users, driven at least in part by its continued push into payments and eCommerce, according to TechCrunch, which published a set of leaked documents on Friday (Oct....

Target’s Omnichannel Silver Bullet
October 19, 2015

One tenet of successful omnichannel strategies is to never let a potential consumer be lost to a gap in the path to purchase. A new partnership between a retailer and an app might all but guarantee that. ClickZ reported that Target and name-that-tune app Shazam have...

Sony Pay? Sony’s Plans For Mobile Payments
October 19, 2015

Sony may not be taking on Apple and Samsung on the smartphone front, but it still plans to compete with the tech giants on the mobile payments front in Asia. Sony plans to use its contactless payment technology to make ground in the public transportation...

The IPO Edition: Square, First Data And Worldpay
October 19, 2015

As the good people at Morton Salt first said in 1911, “when it rains, it pours.” And last week that rain came in the form of IPOs, with big updates from Square, big news for the widely coveted Worldpay and something of a big letdown for...

Mobile Commerce
Citi Innovates Mobile Banking
October 19, 2015

The consumer banking unit of Citigroup Inc. has said it will launch a unit to be known as Citi FinTech, geared toward what the company termed a “radically simple, connected mobile banking solution,” Reuters reported Friday (Oct. 16). The newswire said that Heather Cox would...