Last week, Google had a plethora of announcements at its annual Google I/O developer conference about “What’s Next.” Included on that list were ideas for better options for mobile payments, banking and commerce. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Yesterday a curious phenomenon swept the nation--a sudden and overwhelming desire to be in a bar of the middle of the work day watching international soccer. In cities across the nation bars suddenly had more patrons than stools, leaving thousands of thirsty customers standing and...
Intuit is “PayWithCoin” enabling small biz and the CFPB is giving this crypto currency a look-see. One family is taking its vacation this summer to places that only accept BTC but you’ll need cold hard cash to buy any of the stash seized by the...
Like many social networking services, Foursquare has historically had a monetization problem—they provide a service, the service is definitely value but the service doesn’t directly generate any money. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
PayPal announced earlier this week that its PayPal App would soon be available on Android Wear in the Beta Community. PayPal Senior Software Engineer Richard Mercille wrote a contribution piece on the company blog, and said that with Google’s introduction of its Android Wear™ OS,...
Omnichannel is a riddle wrapped in an enigma, enabling multiple payment methods and offers across devices and channels with one single view of the customer. Solving that riddle can only mean one thing: having a single data stream that follows that consumer. MPD CEO Karen...
There’s no question that U.S. merchants, even the smaller ones, are moving to mobile. SMBs in particular are increasingly investing in mPOS solutions not just as card acceptance devices, but also as solutions that help to better run their businesses. When it comes to what...
According to a recent report, online, mobile and contactless payment transactions will hit $5 trillion in just four years. The research in question is called, Digital Payment Strategies: Online, Mobile & Contactless 2014-2019, and claims that online transactions will jump from $2.5 trillion in 2014...
In a move that will potentially open up U.S. e-commerce for millions of Chinese consumers currently without a convenient payment method when shopping on sites based outside of China, Stripe will now be enabling consumers to pay with Alipay. The rare partnership between U.S.-based Stripe and...
