Facebook has 1.35 billion users and is responsible for $227 billion in global economic impact and 4.5 million jobs, according to a report the social network commissioned from consulting firm Deloitte. That makes Facebook more populous than any actual nation than China, with roughly the...
French point-of-sale vendor Ingenico now owns 100 percent of mobile commerce platform ROAM, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 20). Going forward, the names of ROAM’s existing individual products — which include secure mobile card readers, mobile point-of-sale applications, a mobile payments engine and professional...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said he wants to expand operations in Europe, creating 50,000 jobs there and taking 400,000 personal vehicles off the road, according to Re/code. At the DLD Conference in Munich on Sunday (Jan. 18), Kalanick also said the ride-sharing service isn’t opposed...
MoneyPass, the U.S Bank-owned ATM network, has cut a deal with U.K.-based Monitise to offer smartphone-based banking services to its customers, the two companies announced on Thursday (Jan. 15). Under the agreement, MoneyPass Network’s 1,600 card-issuing financial institutions will be able to offer their account holders...
Apple Pay has gone live at yet another regional grocery group. The 217 Lucky, Save Mart and FoodMaxx supermarkets in Northern California and Nevada now all officially support Apple’s mobile payment system, their corporate parent announced on Thursday (Jan. 15). The official rollout comes weeks...
Mobile users encountered malware nearly twice as often in 2014 than during 2013 — up from 4 percent to 7 percent, CSO Online reported. The jump was largely to the proliferation of new ransomware campaigns such as ScarePakage, ScareMeNot, ColdBrother, and Koler, according to a...
Apple Watch will use a four-digit passcode that users must type before making Apple Pay payments, CSO Australia reported on Wednesday (Jan. 14). Details of the Apple Watch payment process emerged by way of an unreleased companion app that Apple has been developing. The companion...
A new report from analytics vendor appFigures says Google Play’s app market has outrun Apple’s App Store in 2014 for the first time in the number of new apps, according to TechCrunch. Google Play’s developer community also grew faster than Apple’s for the third straight...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg discussed an investment in China’s top smartphone maker, Xiaomi, with that company’s CEO before its $1.1 billion round of fundraising in December, Reuters reported on Monday (Jan. 12). But the deal never materialized, several unnamed sources told Reuters, in part because of...
