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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Merchants And Tokenization’s Sea Change
Merchants And Tokenization’s Sea Change
August 31, 2018  |  Payment Methods

Merchants must manage billions of tokens – easier said than done. Nitin Prabhu, PayPal’s senior director of issuance, tokenization and loyalty platform, offers a hint of...

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Diwali Red Letter Days For Google, Flipkart And Amazon In India’s eCommerce Battle
Diwali Red Letter Days For Google, Flipkart And Amazon In India’s eCommerce Battle
August 30, 2018  |  International

Berkshire and the Paytm investment may be just a sign of the times. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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How myPOS Helped EU’s SMBs Jump The Shark On Cash
How myPOS Helped EU’s SMBs Jump The Shark On Cash
August 30, 2018  |  SMBs

When myPOS launched in 2014, cash was still mostly king among small businesses. In fact, as Andrew Byrne, COO at myPOS, told Karen Webster, in...

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‘Africa’s Stripe,’ Paystack, Snags $8M From Visa, Tencent, Stripe
‘Africa’s Stripe,’ Paystack, Snags $8M From Visa, Tencent, Stripe
August 29, 2018  |  Investments

Paystack, the Nigerian payments company, announced on Tuesday (Aug. 28) that it raised $8 million in a Series A round. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Google’s Tez Rebrands To Google Pay, Expands Beyond India
Google’s Tez Rebrands To Google Pay, Expands Beyond India
August 28, 2018  |  Google

Google’s Indian digital payment app Tez is getting an overhaul as the company plans an expansion into other areas of Asia. Get the Full Story...

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Rakuten Reveals Its Plan To Take On Amazon
Rakuten Reveals Its Plan To Take On Amazon
August 28, 2018  |  Retail

Japanese eCommerce firm Rakuten is thinking big these days, according to recent reports, sharing ambitious goals of taking on wireless technology provider SoftBank by launching a...

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Today In Data: A Mobile Economy Is A Self-Determined Economy
Today In Data: A Mobile Economy Is A Self-Determined Economy
August 27, 2018  |  Retail

Some things won’t ever change. The change of summer to fall will likely always send tens of millions of American families scrambling to load up on...

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How Banks Can Connect To Emerging Payment Methods
How Banks Can Connect To Emerging Payment Methods
August 27, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

Banks have honed their systems for decades to manage payments seamlessly and efficiently, while providing great client service with Titanic amounts of volume. However, they...

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Getting A Handle On A Healthcare Payments Fix
Getting A Handle On A Healthcare Payments Fix
August 27, 2018  |  Healthcare

We have come a long way from the days when patients in the U.S. did not have to foot all that much for healthcare —...

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