Citgo is entering into a new relationship with the cloud-based mobile commerce company P97 to help consumers buy food, fuel or other items via mobile app, according to a press release. The app, the release stated, will integrate Connected Car and Citgo’s shopper loyalty program...
The Google Pay revamp, launched last month (Nov. 18), has catapulted the app to the top of the charts. The app quickly became No. 1 for finance on the Google Play App Store, the website Apptopia reported. By Dec. 9, it had skyrocketed to No....
First things get miniaturized, then mini things get combined with other mini things to make something (slightly) bigger than the sum of its parts. So it is with connected digital devices that have been proliferating for years — wearables, notebooks and the like — that...
PayPal’s money transfer arm Xoom is now offering customers in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Europe the ability to send secure funds to 12 countries in Africa for a reduced fee. “Sending money to Africa through traditional channels has always been expensive. We wanted to...
Argentinian mobile payments company Ualá, bolstered by heavyweight investors, is expanding into merchant services, according to Bloomberg. The investors include George Soros, Steve Cohen and Tencent Holdings. On Thursday (Dec. 3), the company rolled out a new line of services working with small- to medium-sized...
The pandemic has had an impact on digital wallet usage – in other words, up and to the right. Blackhawk Network noted that mobile wallet adoption in the U.S. stood at 38 percent usage among consumers before the pandemic, and as late as this fall...
WhatsApp is getting another crack at grabbing a slice of Brazil’s fast-growing payments market. Facebook’s messaging service will soon get a green light to start providing peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, head of the country’s central bank, said at a news...
Payguru is a Turkish company currently working to give residents a way to pay for bus travel cards via text message, according to a report by Financial Times (FT). The way it works, since the company began testing it in the city of Kahramanmaras in...
The plastic card, by necessity, is giving way to digital cards, and mobile apps are bringing card-not-present transactions, increasingly, to mobile devices. In an interview with PYMNTS, Jennifer Miller, senior vice president, head of partner strategy at Elan, said the shift to mobile card apps...
