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.

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Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink

Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
May 07, 2020  |  Earnings

Square reported earnings Wednesday (May 6) for the first quarter that showed slowing gross payment volumes, impacted by the pandemic and the shuttering of merchant...

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Etsy’s Q1 Gets A Big Boost From Stay-At-Homers
Etsy’s Q1 Gets A Big Boost From Stay-At-Homers
May 06, 2020  |  Earnings

Stay-at-home orders and the mass work-from-home (WFH) migration that flew in the face of America’s sense of freedom acted as a tailwind for handmade eCommerce...

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Why Consumers Aren’t In A Rush To Reopen The Economy
Why Consumers Aren’t In A Rush To Reopen The Economy
May 04, 2020  |  Economy

Economists, policymakers and epidemiologists have been modeling the cost/benefit of reopening the U.S. economy since governors began asking their citizens to #stayathome in mid-March, and...

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PPP’s Banker Versus Borrower Dilemma
PPP’s Banker Versus Borrower Dilemma
May 01, 2020  |  SMBs

Since the launch of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early April, the single-minded focus of the U.S. Treasury, the banks approved to process PPP loans and...

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Moving 5G Beyond The Marketing Realm And Into Reality
Moving 5G Beyond The Marketing Realm And Into Reality
May 01, 2020  |  Mobile

Depending on how you look at it, the pandemic will either slow progress of 5G.  Or hasten it. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Visa: Tap-to-Pay Transactions Grow 40 Pct YoY
Visa: Tap-to-Pay Transactions Grow 40 Pct YoY
April 30, 2020  |  Earnings

Visa posted fiscal second-quarter results that showed a precipitous falloff in cross-border volumes late in the quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, alongside what it termed...

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Facebook Daily Active Users Surge 11 Pct YoY Amid Pandemic
Facebook Daily Active Users Surge 11 Pct YoY Amid Pandemic
April 30, 2020  |  Earnings

Facebook’s earnings results showed the impacts of a pandemic that proved to be headwinds on its advertising business, but logged gains in monthly and daily...

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Alphabet’s YouTube Revenues Surge 33 Pct In Q1
Alphabet’s YouTube Revenues Surge 33 Pct In Q1
April 29, 2020  |  Earnings

Call it a tale of two quarters – or, more specifically, a quarter that can be divided into “before coronavirus” and “during coronavirus.” Get the...

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