This week introduced some new features to its payments that, while hardly groundbreaking, show a new trend toward making geo-fencing proximity sensing a trigger for credit card transactions. Read more »
Apple Pay may finally pry open the door for a mobile payments market that remains almost entirely untapped in the U.S. And a soon-to-be independent PayPal could be ready to pounce… Read more »
Apple is deliberately laying a solid foundation for a mobile payments business while several competitors who were early to market continue to spin their wheels . Read more »
A new survey indicates most U.S. shoppers don’t want to be tracked through their phones as they move through stores and don’t want to receive messages as they shop. Which means… Read more »
NFC has failed to see any real uptake in most Western markets, and Bluetooth-based technologies like Apple’s iBeacon are suddenly getting a lot of attention. But there are a few reasons… Read more »
Apple already has much of the groundwork in place for to become a mobile payments powerhouse. It’s just a question of how deep the space it dives and whether it will… Read more »
Apple is reportedly developing a mobile payments system to compete with PayPal, Google Wallet and Isis, among others. And the company could bring a lot more to the table than just… Read more »
Competing mobile payments systems may give the mobile wallet a much-needed boost in the short term, but they’re likely to slow mass-market adoption over the long haul. Read more »
The U.S. mobile payments market is seeing a tremendous amount of consolidation in recent weeks. That activity will ramp up in the coming months, speeding the evolution of the overall market… Read more »
Mobile retail app developer Shopkick is selling iBeacon devices to businesses that will let them track and interact with customers as they move throughout their stores. Macy’s is its first trial… Read more »