Been a tougher than normal week for Apple, as some news about a Chinese malware called “Wirelurker” snagged headlines and gave the world a glimpse into the future of iOS security concerns, a future that could be called “Masque Attack.” Also Apple Pay’s competition seemed...
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Weekly Breakdown Tis’ the season for shopping. Well almost anyway. The first week of November saw an investment community gearing up of the holiday shopping season, with $571 million in investments all in, about half of...
Beacon executives at the ad:tech New York conference claim that nearly five million beacons will be deployed over the next five years. The execs did acknowledge that beacon adoption has been slower in the U.S. than in other geographies, but expect to see those difference...
Payments players around the globe gathered last week to chat about all things payments and commerce. As you might expect, there were lots of new products, big ideas and big predictionsshared. We thought you’d like to see the things that we thought were worth sharing....
The mobile wallet wars make strange bedfellows. This week, CurrentC stayed on the defensive while Google could be heard singing Apple’s praises as the rising Apple Pay NFC tide has lifted all boats (albeit very, very slightly). In other news, Burger King decided to jump...
Like many young parents across America, I spend a lot of time at Walgreens. If fact, as I am not such a “younger” parent anymore, I find myself spending more time then I would like there. I have found Walgreens to be a reasonably good...
Since going live with Apple Pay last month, the $14.2 billion 401-store Whole Foods grocery chain has used the mobile wallet to process more than 150,000 transactions, according to CIO Jason Buechel. But the chain doesn’t solely see Apple Pay as a payment mechanism. During...
Small-merchant loyalty program startup Thanx launched on Tuesday (Nov. 4) with $4.7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and partnerships with Visa, MasterCard and Apple Pay — making it the only rewards provider that works with Apple’s mobile payment system, according to TechCrunch. To streamline...
Best Buy is reportedly switching its credit-card processing partner to Visa from MasterCard, according to Bloomberg. Visa CEO Charles Scharf told analysts during an earnings call last week that “we’ve agreed to terms to move a significant consumer credit co-brand from a competitor to Visa,”...
