The next time you offer someone a penny for their thoughts, step back and rethink your meager offer of copper. Nobody wants your penny – or do they? The Harris Poll released Tuesday (Sept. 22) finds that a majority of Americans (using a sample of...
Starbucks' mobile momentum is brewing right along as the company announced today (Sept. 22) that its Mobile Order & Pay feature was expanding to more stores nationwide — with international offerings in the horizon.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission policymaker Kara Stein made some bold statements about the agency’s responsibility to help companies both prevent and recover from cyber attacks, the Financial Times reported over the weekend. Stein, an SEC commissioner, told FT the regulator needs to step up its efforts...
Dwolla, a digital payment network, has expanded its reach into the payments ecosystem through its expanded partnership with Comenity Capital Bank that allows users to apply for a line of credit and get instant access to funds. And now, with its new feature, it’s jumped further into the...
"The most accepted mobile payment" That's how Samsung wraps up its latest Samsung Pay commercial featuring the new Galaxy S6Edge and its mobile payments app, Samsung Pay. And in that commercial, Samsung is certainly not shy about taking on Apple Pay.
Labels like “farm fresh” and “organic” used to be the exception and not the rule in food shopping and buying. Lately, they are starting to circulate more and more prominently and restaurants are as likely to boast the bona fides of their locally sourced cuisine...
In a first and important step toward making Apple Pay available in China, Apple reportedly registered an entity in the Shanghai free-trade zone late last week. According to people close to the matter, the launch of Apple’s entity would “bring Apple Pay, considered as a...
Global payments provider First Data is now positioning itself in the world of open source technologies. The company announced the acquisition of open source storefront platform Spree Commerce over the weekend, but the terms have yet to be disclosed, TechCrunch reported. In a blog post...
The U.S. Department of Defense is developing a new cybersecurity framework designed to help keep them one step ahead of oncoming cyber threats. According to the deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, the electronic system will detect vulnerabilities associated the military’s computer networks, weapons systems...
