When Apple insists on its cut from Apple Pay transactions, it’s not kidding. According to details from a leaked copy of the contract, Apple can request a written certification that the amounts are accurate and if they dispute it, they get to hire an auditor....
A “major flaw” has been discovered within Visa contactless cards, where thieves in the U.K. were to sidestep a £20 limit and charge as much as £999,999.99 as long as they chose the option to select a foreign currency, according to a report in The...
When Alibaba Group Holding reports its first earnings since going public on Tuesday (Nov. 4), Wall Street analysts will either be calmed or will royally freak out. All things considered, there’s nothing likely inbetween. That’s because the expectations for Alibaba are mammoth. First, it’s NYSE...
The launch for the Apple Pay-accepting Apple Watch will not happen until at least March 20, according to comments made by Apple Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores Angela Ahrendts and reported by 9-to-5 Mac. The official Apple word on the watch’s planned...
Despite all of the massive change today in payments—whether it’s Apple Pay rewriting the payments rules or the ups-and-downs of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies—and the digital embraces of MasterCard and the Apple Pay love coming from Visa and then from the CEO at Discover...
Although Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said his coffee company has already found the recipe to capture a loyal base of mobile customers, he said the launch of Starbucks’ mobile order and pay app in December will be the single-most important technology innovation introduced by the...
E-tailer QVC announced Thursday (Oct. 30) that it will let shoppers use the TouchID fingerprint recognition capabilities on recent iPhone models to authenticate purchases in-app instead of passwords or PINs. For customers using iOS 8-enabled iPhone 5S, 6 and 6+ phones, the fingerprint scan will...
The U.K. startup Wranx has taken the spaced repetition learning technique and applied it to the mobile app side of the B2B industry in order to enable businesses to train staff better, and provide analytics back to the business on how staff is learning, Techcrunch reported....
In a potentially significant ruling from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Bitcoin platforms are being reclassified as money transmitters. “FinCEN cited its 2011 amendments, which defines money transmitter as a person that provides money transmission services, or any other person engaged in the transfer...
