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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Luckin Coffee Looks To Expand Into Vending Machines

Luckin Coffee Looks To Expand Into Vending Machines
Luckin Coffee Looks To Expand Into Vending Machines
January 09, 2020  |  Cross-border Payments

China-based Luckin Coffee is going to set up vending machines where customers will be able to purchase hot beverages and snack products, the company said...

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Paris Stores’ Holiday Sales Sunk By Up To 50 Pct
Paris Stores’ Holiday Sales Sunk By Up To 50 Pct
January 09, 2020  |  Cross-border Payments

Transport workers on strike in Paris caused disruptions to sales for business owners over the holidays, cutting sales by as much as half, they say....

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Are Virtual Cards The Future Of B2B Travel Payments?
Are Virtual Cards The Future Of B2B Travel Payments?
January 09, 2020  |  VISA

When Sabre and Visa announced a new partnership in April to pair Visa virtual commercial cards with the Sabre Virtual Payments gateway, the goals were...

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Bitcoin Daily: Oman Port Teams Up With Blockchain Platform Tradelens, Crypto Exchange Binance Adds New Fiat Options
Bitcoin Daily: Oman Port Teams Up With Blockchain Platform Tradelens, Crypto Exchange Binance Adds New...
January 09, 2020  |  Bitcoin

The largest port in Oman, the Port of Salalah, has joined the blockchain shipping platform TradeLens, in an effort to transform into a more digital...

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Cybersecurity Company Finds TikTok Was Vulnerable To Hackers
Cybersecurity Company Finds TikTok Was Vulnerable To Hackers
January 09, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Check Point, a cybersecurity company based out of Israel, recently released research highlighting numerous security flaws in the popular smartphone app TikTok, which is incredibly...

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CES Shows the Power of Connected Commerce
CES Shows the Power of Connected Commerce
January 08, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

Homes are getting smarter as the Internet of Things expands, and that has major implications for payments and commerce. Examples of that are coming fast...

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Mobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
Mobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
January 08, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Square‘s mobile card reader undoubtedly made a significant impact on the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market, and kick-started a slew of recent innovations to broaden the...

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Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem
Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem
January 08, 2020  |  Alexa

When Alexa was first introduced in November 2014, it didn’t look much like the next big thing in user interfaces. There wasn’t very much like...

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