Mobile Payments

A mobile payment is a money payment made for a product or service through a portable electronic device such as a tablet or cell phone. Mobile payment technology can also be used to send money to friends or family members, such as with the applications PayPal and Venmo.

Source: investopedia.com

Rakuten, Walmart’s Grocery Unit Cash In Growth In Japan

Rakuten, Walmart’s Grocery Unit Cash In Growth In Japan
Rakuten, Walmart’s Grocery Unit Cash In Growth In Japan
February 20, 2020  |  Retail

Walmart, which has been struggling in Japan for a number of years, is seeing eye-opening growth in its online food grocery delivery service, according to...

READ MORE >
Green Dot Stock Up After Upbeat Earnings Report
Green Dot Stock Up After Upbeat Earnings Report
February 20, 2020  |  Earnings

Green Dot reported its earnings for its fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 2019, with total operating revenues of $249.3 million, showing a slight uptick from...

READ MORE >
UK Google Users Will Be Under US, Not EU Privacy Protections
UK Google Users Will Be Under US, Not EU Privacy Protections
February 20, 2020  |  International

Google users in the U.K. will no longer have access to European Union data security, instead being moved by the tech giant to American jurisdiction,...

READ MORE >
Is Paying Consumers For Their Time The Future Of Physical Retail?
Is Paying Consumers For Their Time The Future Of Physical Retail?
February 20, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

Among the more famous aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin was his 1748 observation that “time is money” —  a fancy way of saying that making money...

READ MORE >
POS Financing: There’s A Lending Marketplace For That
POS Financing: There’s A Lending Marketplace For That
February 19, 2020  |  Point of Sale

In the roughly six decades the card networks have been powering payments at the physical and digital points of sale, it’s hard to imagine that their ubiquity wasn’t...

READ MORE >
Merger, Sale Among Ingredients For Meal-Kit Maker Blue Apron
Merger, Sale Among Ingredients For Meal-Kit Maker Blue Apron
February 19, 2020  |  Subscription Commerce

After more customer losses and financial dips, Blue Apron is exploring strategic options going forward that might include putting itself up for sale, according to...

READ MORE >
Bitcoin Daily: IRS To Meet With Crypto Groups; Thieves Take $630,000 In Ether From Lender bZx
Bitcoin Daily: IRS To Meet With Crypto Groups; Thieves Take $630,000 In Ether From Lender...
February 19, 2020  |  Bitcoin

The IRS has invited cryptocurrency groups to meet for a regulatory summit March 3 to discuss how the two can work together going forward, published...

READ MORE >
Macy’s Dropped To Junk-Bond Status
Macy’s Dropped To Junk-Bond Status
February 19, 2020  |  Retail

Macy’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk by S&P Global Ratings, just weeks after the former department store juggernaut released a cost-cutting measure to...

READ MORE >
LendingClub CEO Heralds ‘Transformative’ Radius Bank Buy
LendingClub CEO Heralds ‘Transformative’ Radius Bank Buy
February 19, 2020  |  Earnings

LendingClub on Tuesday (Feb. 18) posted results that showed continued growth in loan originations, up mid-single-digit percentages year over year – results that were possibly...

READ MORE >