When it comes to mobile payments, half of U.S. consumers literally don’t know what they’re missing. According to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted during the 2014 holiday shopping season, half of the consumers polled were unfamiliar with mobile technologies such as NFC and...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg discussed an investment in China’s top smartphone maker, Xiaomi, with that company’s CEO before its $1.1 billion round of fundraising in December, Reuters reported on Monday (Jan. 12). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Verifone is trying to end (or at least limit) the endless upgrade cycle for mobile point-of-sale devices with a new mPOS sled that tries to support as many standards — and as few proprietary features — as possible. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
As banks and nonbanks look for alternatives to payday loans, financial-management startup Even is working on a novel way for people whose incomes vary to pay their bills during lean times, according to American Banker. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Apple Watch has its work cut out for it. According to new research from GlobalWebIndex, after several years of other vendors’ smart wearables efforts, only 9 percent of adult Internet users own a smartwatch and just 7 percent have a smart wristband, TechCrunch reported. Get...
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Apple’s much-anticipated wearable may have plenty of health-monitoring features, but mobile marketers know what the Apple Watch is really good at: putting digital ads on potential customers’ wrists, according to The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay. It claims that the launch of Apple Pay has accelerated the efforts of the retailers to join forces with banks to create bank-branded wallets. It says that these bank-branded wallets would...
“While I praise the sheer ingenuity of bitcoin and its payments innovation, it should be buried.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...
