Moven wants to make it easier for users to manage their spending with their smartphones by offering app-based money management tools. Investors are taking notice, the company just closed a Series A funding round led by SBT Venture Capital that leaves the startup $8M richer....
Foreign exchange payments and subsidies provided by the Ghana government are helping to overcome fuel shortages that have hampered the country for more than a week. The subsidies should help distributors to buy more oil from other countries.
Japan-based payments network JCB is to begin testing a contactless payments service in Tokyo this month, ahead of a commercial rollout in 2015. The EMV-standard technology will be available in plastic cards, mobiles and wearable devices. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Russian Standard Bank, Mobile TeleSystems and MasterCard international payment system have presented NFC SIM cards, which allow making one-touch payments for purchases and services using Mobile MasterCard PayPass® technology in 700k locations in 51 countries. The use of Russian Standard Bank NFC MasterCard card requires...
The elephant in the EMV room: why should merchants even bother upgrading their terminals when mobile payments are what merchants really want? Well, because EMV is here, whether we like it or not. Gemalto, in a new report, examines the “myths” circulating about EMV and...
Technology provider GoDaddy announced today on a company blog post that it had a new innovation designed to help small businesses “get paid anytime, anywhere, and by any digital method.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Tablets are a staple now for small merchants who want a better way to interact with their customers. But just popular are tablets in the business world? Maybe more popular than you think. According to a recent survey, tablets are quickly becoming the “go-to” in...
For all of you bitcoin fanatics who also love MasterCard, some good news arrived this week. MasterCard filed a patent earlier this week that would potentially incorporate bitcoin into its design for a planned global online shopping cart. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
There’s good news for the B2B e-commerce world. According to a recent Forrester Research study, 90 percent of businesses that sell online to customers saw an increase in revenue and profitability per customer order. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
