Although Blackberry has been trying to woo corporate smartphone dollars with an appeal to security fears, it has been losing corporate marketshare to Apple at a rapid clip. “This year, iOS makes up 61 percent of the mobile devices deployed in the enterprise, compared with...
A new survey has 40 percent of U.S. online shoppers saying that they like the idea of mobile payments and prefer that idea to carrying around a wallet. How much that interest in using mobile payments will translate to shoppers actually using mobile payments is...
There’s always something to fuel the competition between Samsung and Apple. This time it’s not a debate over devices as much as it is what that device can enable — and specifically one technology: beacons. Samsung’s recently announced that it was launching its own beacon...
Given the fresh popularity boost that Apple Pay has given NFC, concerns about the transmission’s use outside of Apple Pay has raised security concerns. Two companies, Oberthur Technologies and Mobeewave, are leveraging those fears and have rolled out a product designed to turn any NFC...
When Apple released its software developer kit on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the payment-enabled Apple Watch, it was signaling that its watch is coming soon. But not soon enough for PayPal, which also rolled out its watch-like payment mechanism support for its Pebble app, on...
Ebay’s long history in E-Commerce (its Sept. 1995 launch made it one of the very first E-Commerce companies to launch, although Amazon’s July 1994 launch beat it by more than a year) has always been about consumer-to-consumer purchases. This week, it launched a geolocation-based app...
Danish startup AllUnite, which lets retailers offers ad-supported free Wi-Fi in their stores, plans to add 50 new markets in 50 weeks with its €3 million ($3.76 million) in new funding, TechCrunch reported. The Series A round, which was led by European VC firm Northzone...
If you can download Google Wallet and can somehow persuade enough friends—OK, if you’re trying to force them to use Google Wallet, maybe you better go for acquaintances and distant relatives from your spouse’s family—to do the same, you could pull in $100. The deal...
A report from Ericsson released Tuesday (Nov. 18) shows some startling growth of Internet-connected devices in the U.S., with 90 percent of U.S. households having three or more such devices, while almost half have five or more such devices and almost 25 percent have seven...
