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When the Apple Watch comes out this year, it will have a pretty unique feature among wearables in the market: you’ll be able to buy stuff by waving the wearable at… Read more »
Mobile payments technology has made it easier to purchase everything from movies to furniture with the tap of a mobile app. Now it’s making a particularly distasteful transaction just a bit… Read more »
A few months before its lukewarm IPO late last year, Germany’s Rocket Internet took a $446 million investment from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the largest telecoms operator in… Read more »
You can buy an increasing number of goods of services with cryptocurrency Bitcoin and Apple’s new mobile payments platform Pay, but soon their reach could expand to fines as well –… Read more »
Some important trends will have a significant impact on the mobile industry next year, but here are a few segments that will likely see more hype than actual traction. Read more »
In November, when Dutchman Martin Wisjeimer became the first man to inject Bitcoin keys inside his hands, he captured the spirit of payments in 2015. Will others be crazy enough to try this? Maybe… Read more »
Health and fitness apps, the future of mobile payments, and the future of the mobile enterprise will dominate discussion in 2015. Read more »
Samsung is in talks with mobile payments startup LoopPay about potentially incorporating the latter’s wireless credit card technology into its smartphones, according to a report from Re/Code. The two have already… Read more »
On Friday Square has had its first $100 million sales day, the company revealed today. The milestone comes just a month after CEO and founder Jack Dorsey revealed Square had handled its… Read more »
The Swedish online payments processor Klarna is pushing into the U.S., and it said late Wednesday that it intends to spend at least $100 million doing so. Checkout is a… Read more »