ResearchAnother baby step for Apple’s mobile wallet
In his Weekly Update, Colin Gibbs, the Gigaom Research curator for mobile, looks at ‘Apple: the tortoise in mobile payments versus the hares’. He looks at the small step of Apple… Read more »
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In his Weekly Update, Colin Gibbs, the Gigaom Research curator for mobile, looks at ‘Apple: the tortoise in mobile payments versus the hares’. He looks at the small step of Apple… 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 »
Hit an Apple Store in Japan and you can digitally purchase in-store credits for all things Apple. The new program, called iTunes Pass, could hint at Apples larger mobile payment ambitions. Read more »
The market for point-of-sale mobile payments continues to spin its wheels in North America, but restaurants might provide the opening payments providers have long been looking for. Read more »
Ten months after announcing acquisition, PayPal has merged it and Braintree’s payments platform and developer operations. Startups and big companies alike now can offer PayPal services and Braintree’s card processing through… Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Colin Gibbs, the Gigaom Research curator for mobile, notes that ‘While NFC struggles, QR codes slog on’. The QR (Quick Response) codes that got their start in… Read more »
New data from Nielsen indicates U.S. consumers are spending more time than ever in mobile apps, but the number of apps they use regularly isn’t increasing much. That’s a problem for… Read more »
Loop’s ChargeCase fits over an iPhone 5 or 5s but otherwise works exactly like it’s fob. You press a button and the case emits a magnetic field that emulates the data… Read more »
“If you build it, who will care?” That pretty much sums up the last few years in the mobile payments space, as banks scrambled to remain relevant and mobile carriers tried… Read more »
Priceline will shell out $2.6 billion to acquire OpenTable in a move that could have the company selling unused restaurant tables at a discount. But OpenTable’s new mobile payments system might… Read more »