It looks like Amazon’s diapers weren’t the only product the e-commerce giant retired Wednesday. The company has shut down its mobile wallet beta, which allowed Android and Fire phone users to… Read more »
The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the United States Central Command appeared to have been hacked Monday morning by attackers claiming they are affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and… Read more »
The smartphone may still be a long way from replacing the back-pocket or purse wallet, but people around the world are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to buy goods, transfer… Read more »
For several years, mobile payments in physical locations has been stalled here in the U.S. and – for the most part – around the world. Will Apple Pay become the spark for… Read more »
It took a while for the U.S. carriers to roll out their Softcard mobile payments and even longer for the digital wallet to work with Windows Phone. With the right handset… Read more »
LoopPay has an alternate mobile payments system for the new iPhones that relies on a magnetic-field generating smartphone case instead of NFC. Why use LoopPay over Apple Pay? It works in… Read more »
MCX can’t have members break ranks and support Apple Pay or Google Wallet. Its own forthcoming app CurrentC will challenge both the mobile and finance industries, so it needs solidarity among… Read more »
As part of a publicity campaign for his book, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange did one of Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” group interviews, and talked about Bitcoin, Google and its chairman Eric… Read more »
Apple’s new mobile wallet won’t just support contactless payments at the register. It will broker online and in-app payments on your smartphone. Read more »