It would make sense for Google to talk to Square about acquiring its slick but money-losing mobile payments business, but good luck determining who talked to who about what. Read more »
Facebook is reportedly planning to launch a payments offering that will surely include mobile phones. Rather than focusing on proximity mobile payments, though, the social network appears to be developing a… Read more »
Google remains committed to mobile payments despite the fact that Google Wallet has failed to gain any substantial traction. But while big challenges remain, it’s far too early to count Google… Read more »
Google Wallet, Isis, PayPal and others continue to try to build ecosystems with an aggregated mobile wallet to support transactions at a wide variety of retailers. Meanwhile, some smaller players are… Read more »
Best Buy and 7-Eleven are shutting down NFC at their registers. Are they saving themselves the expense of running a smartphone payments infrastructure no one is yet using, or are they… Read more »
Visa and MasterCard this week threw their backing behind Google’s Host Card Emulation feature, which is aimed at enabling the app run even through carriers that have previously blocked it. Support… Read more »
The U.S. accounts for a disproportionately high amount of global credit card fraud. For a country with such technological innovation, we’re way behind the times and it’s costing us. This market… Read more »
Google’s Wallet Card can be ordered but it won’t help you carry less cards. It’s more like a pre-paid debit card that uses your Google Wallet account balance to pay for… Read more »
A new payments system promises to enable consumers to use a single, credit card-sized device to conduct transactions and use loyalty programs through conventional credit card readers. The gadget, which won’t… Read more »
“Google Wallet 2.0″ is live but it’s not from Google. Instead, Isis is the newest digital wallet payment program and it’s now live. You’ll need a phone on Verizon, T-Mobile or… Read more »