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Apple Pay
Icahn Gets Apple Pay Math Wrong
October 10, 2014

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...

Apple Pay
Target Exec Says Apple Pay Not A Breakthrough
October 09, 2014

As the hoopla over Apple Pay wanes, skepticism is beginning to set in — even among executives at big retail chains that will be rolling out Apple’s new payment system later this month. On Tuesday (Oct. 7), Target director of finance Bill Ramsey told a...

B2B Payments
Jim Cramer Discovers—And Falls In Love With—Fleet Cards
October 09, 2014

Television investment-advice-giver Jim Cramer recently told his CNBC audience that he just discovered fleet card companies and loves them. “The fleet card business may be the hottest business that you’ve never heard of,” he said. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Mobile Commerce
Mobile Payments Expand in UK with Zapp
October 09, 2014

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...

Square Uses Geolocation To Keep Coffee Hot
October 09, 2014

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...

Is PayPal Being Impacted By Apple Pay?
October 09, 2014

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...

Just In Time For The Mobile Revolution, There’s Plastc.
October 08, 2014

Remember when wonder card Coin was introduced last year? That digital “uber card” that was described as the only card anyone would ever need to transact? Despite early adopter interest and massive hype, it still has yet to ship and many ask, why even bother, now....

Pizza Hut Down On Apple Pay
October 08, 2014

Pizza Hut, who was the first retailer to truly push the capabilities of the iPhone app and has been a longtime massive support of Apple efforts, said some decidedly non-cheerleaderish comments on Monday (Oct. 6) during a tradeshow panel. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Merchant Innovation
WePay Launches WePay Clear
October 08, 2014

Payments, particularly the technology side of the ecosystem, has many players who love visibility.  Apple Pay’s was announced with a level of theatricality normally reserved for summer blockbusters, PayPal’s 2014 has been operatic, Alibaba exploded onto the NYSE, bitcoin has suffered three or four “doomsday”...