A recent report says Snapchat wants to become a hub for other services. We can look to another messaging beast — WeChat — for an idea of what that might look… Read more »
Training materials obtained by 9to5Mac show product screens for Apple Pay and offer up a few clues on how the service will be setup and its relationship to banking partners. Read more »
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 »
Walmart’s British subsidiary Asda and the supermarket giant Sainsbury’s are two of the major retailers to announce support for the Zapp mobile payments system on Wednesday. Read more »
Square Cash can already pay someone through email and SMS, but now its iOS app can pay based on proximity, using Bluetooth Low Energy to detect other Cash users in the… Read more »
Plastc is a new entrant to the universal credit card space, but unlike the others it supports chip and PIN transaction technologies from the get-go. 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 »
What new hardware could Apple be planning to launch alongside OS X Yosemite? For starters, a new iMac with a high-resolution screen, according to a new report. Read more »
Visa’s technology chief Rajat Taneja has high hopes for Apple Pay, but not for all of the reasons you might expect. He believes Apple will pave the way for a multitude… Read more »
Clinkle promised a digital wallet. Instead it delivered a piece of plastic. It’s debit card will be integrated into a new smartphone rewards networks, but it’s a far cry from the… Read more »