It’s no secret Twitter wants to be the next big player in E-commerce, but it is a mystery, at least to those listening in to Monday’s (Oct. 27) call with investors, how. Some three-and-a-half months after buying CardSpring, a payments infrastructure firm, company executives had...
Apple CEO Tim Cook said that more than one-million payment cards were activated within Apple Pay within 72 hours of its launch a week ago. Cook also dismissed the CVS and Rite Aid decision to back down to MCX and stop accepting Apple Pay as...
Alibaba’s executive chairman, Jack Ma, said late Monday (Oct. 27) that Alibaba would like to partner with Apple on financial payments, but offered no details on what such a deal might look like. “I hope we can do something together,” Ma said, according to a...
Wall Street is starting to notice the many benefactors of payments changed fueled by Apple Pay and at the top of that list is now VeriFone, reports Barron’s. The rationale is that Apple Pay will push a new wave of POS upgrades to support NFC....
U.S Bank mobile payment account access that was once limited to consumer customers has now expanded to a portion of the bank’s corporate clients who want to access banking on the go, U.S. Bank announced Thursday (Oct. 23). The U.S. Bank Access Online Mobile app will...
Nike and Apple may be working on a new, more stylish fitness wearable device, although neither company has announced anything, according to The Drum. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Nike CEO Mark Parker said that teaming with Apple for the creation of wearables allowed...
Ring, ring. Hi, Rite Aid. This is CurrentC (or a CurrentC rep) calling. You might not remember this since it was a few years and several marketing executives ago, but you signed a contract that pledged your undying and exclusive love to our own proprietary...
The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes) scary costumes and going door to door “trick or treat-ing” for candy. It’s a pretty big deal where I live...
First it was Target and the world was shocked at how easy it was for a massive number of cards to be stolen. Then there was Michaels, P.F Chang’s, Home Depot and Staples (among many others) and 2014 is the year of the data breach,...
