06 March 2014 Isis is offering an exclusive 50 percent back in statement credits for American Express Card members who use their card in the Isis Mobile Wallet for a rides in a qualified New York City Yellow Medallion Taxicab. The promotion ends June 1,...
06 March 2014 PayPal is urging Australian retailers to make a concerted effort to make better use of available customer data. Noting the ever-changing nature of the retail ecosystem, Simon Banks, PayPal Australia director of enterprise, recommends that using information sets that analytics creates can...
06 March 2014 Stripe has rolled out a new checkout system for mobile and online transactions that allows users to make one-click payments for the first time on the payments platform. Embeddable on both computers and a variety of mobile devices, the new functionality will...
06 March 2014 A new voice has entered the ongoing argument between eBay’s CEO and activist investor Carl Icahn about the future of the payments wing of eBay Inc., PayPal. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has come out in a blog post to accuse Icahn of being short-sited...
07 March 2014 MeaWallet, a Norway-based white-label solution for mobile payments, reportedly is partnering with industry leaders to provide a platform to support most mobile payments options. The platform will work on “all types of smart devices and secure elements,” reportsNFC World. “The whole idea...
07 March 2014 Researchers at South Korea’s KAIST university have unveiled the newest innovation in wearable devices: K-Glass, which is similar to Google Glass. K-Glass comes with a special chip that expands the pool of objects the device can properly recognize without relying on barcodes or...
EMV continues to die a slow death. At least that’s what a growing number of vendors are hoping as they roll out more sophisticated, and secure, payment products, some of which operate along the traditional network rails. Their goal is to encourage financial institutions to...
PayPal APAC reportedly has launched mo.bi.pay, a mobile payments solution developed as a mobile plug-in solution for small and mid-size merchants using shopping carts on their platforms. Mo.bi.pay incorporates PayPal’s mobile practices so the customer can pay using his or her mobile device, The PayPers...
Alibaba, the Chinese eCommerce conglomerate, has banned the sale of Bitcoin on its Taobao Marketplace online platform. Bloomberg News reported that Bitcoin sales and other cryptocurrencies will be restricted beginning on Jan. 14. Mining hardware and software will also be barred from Taobao. An Alibaba...
