Requests for charitable donations aren’t an uncommon part of the checkout process at major retailers, but one app wants to take all the friction out of giving to your favorite foundation. As part of the Forbes Under 30 Summit for millennial philanthropists and innovators, CEO...
We’re halfway through the business week, and there’s already been plenty to create a buzz across the payments and commerce ecosystem that have kept the newswires busy. To name a few: Apple Pay, the Blockchain (and bitcoin), MasterCard’s ‘Selfie To Pay’, Visa’s biometrics push, EMV protection...
Playing what might be termed a game of carrier catch-up, it looks like Verizon Wireless is coming around to supporting Samsung Pay. As noted by The Verge on Tuesday (Oct. 6), Verizon will support the payments platform through an “upcoming software update.” That announcement comes...
A new partnership between MasterCard and P97 Networks is bringing mobile payments to the gas pump using a cloud-based solution that requires no hardware upgrades. Donald Frieden, President and CEO at P97 Networks, and Kurt Weiss, Senior Vice President/Group Head - Mobile Transaction Services -...
Promising lunch delivery in 15 minutes or less, Postmates is broadening its delivery options to bring the midday meal to San Francisco’s South of Market Street region. [bctt tweet=”Postmates is bringing lunch in 15 minutes or less to San Francisco.”] TechCrunch reported Tuesday (Oct. 6)...
In what is sure to be the first of many, Apple approved an ad-blocker app that will enable iPhone users to bypass or ignore advertisements from mobile apps, Financial Times reported yesterday (Oct. 6). Apple’s decision to include ad-blocking capabilities in its latest iOS 9...
In elementary school, students are often told that there are two types of learners: visual ones and auditory ones. Urban Outfitters is betting that there are just as many visual shoppers out there, too. The millennial-centric retailer announced Tuesday (Oct. 6) that it has partnered with...
Jet.com is the latest online retailer to take a swipe at Amazon’s crown, and all signs point to the fact that it’s doing pretty well at the task. After launching in July, Jet only needed a month and a half to become the fourth highest online...
Securing cards is no easy feat since it is a given that there is an innovative, evolving and increasingly professional legion of cybercriminals actively seeking to grab as much user data and as many card numbers as possible. EMV, bio-authentication, tokenization, two-factor authentication and even...
