Alphabet, the parent of Google, is getting into the digital payments market in Japan, inking a deal with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) for its Android Pay platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
German mobile payment company Payworks announced the launch of its new gateway technology that enables developers to integrate payment card readers into the POS across in-store and mobile channels. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
The United Arab Emirates government is pushing for a cashless economy and, according to reports on Tuesday (Aug. 30), has just taken a major step towards that goal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Who needs a wallet anyway? Apparently, not the Chinese. Turns out, three out of five consumers in the country pay with their smartphone when they’re out shopping. That’s right: three in five. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
King of China’s smartphone market, Xiaomi, launches its first payment system on Sept. 1. Introduced to the world just two weeks ago, the system is called Mi Pay and will join smartphone payment systems, like Android Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and LG Pay, among...
The latest update to the Google Wallet app will enable users to make automatic bank transfers, no longer requiring that funds be cashed out from the Wallet balance beforehand. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
Mobile payment company Square‘s transaction margins, which make up most of the company’s revenue, appear slim. That’s according to a report by The Motley Fool, which said that, while the margins are “pretty slim,” it’s not something investors need to worry about. The company, according to the report,...
When it comes to weather, no news is usually good news. Odds are if the whether has become newsworthy, things have gone quite badly wrong. The flooding in Louisiana — and the various tragedies associated with it — is the dark side of this truism....
Ramen noodles — specifically, the instant kind beloved of college students and people with hangovers everywhere — probably doesn’t strike you as a product with a rich and glorious history. To look at the hard bricks of noodles and their little spice packets, it is...