GigaomVenmo update lets you pay with Touch ID directly from your bank
Social payments app Venmo has added a few new features that make it easier to set up your account as well as pay with a thumb tap if you happen to… Read more »
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Social payments app Venmo has added a few new features that make it easier to set up your account as well as pay with a thumb tap if you happen to… 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 »
Google has posted notice on the Wallet developer site that it is shutting down the API powering digital goods purchases on web and mobile internet sites on March 2. Read more »
Square on Wednesday started taking pre-orders for a new version of its Reader and an accessory for Square Stand that will allow its mobile payments service to accept new chip-embedded cards… Read more »
Jack Dorsey’s Square is still far from seeing the transaction volume of PayPal or any of the major financial companies, but it’s certainly no longer the scrappy payments startup it was… Read more »
First Data’s slick new payments terminal is going mobile. The handheld slate is one of several new point-of-sale systems we’re seeing emerging from the banking industry. 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 »
During a rather surreal press conference, MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson said his retailer consortium was trying to promote competition and encourage third-party innovation by excluding both from its stores. 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 »
Osama Bedier, the former head of Google Wallet, has started his own company to build the modern cash register. Instead of competing with Square, though, Poynt is targeting NCR and VeriFone. Read more »