Mobile Payments

Mobile Payments
How Quisk ‘Digitizes Cash’ To Innovate Mobile Money
February 10, 2016

Nearly one year ago, MPD CEO Karen Webster spoke at Innovation Project 2015 about how mobile was disrupting the payments industry — and why the industry wasn’t looking back. “More than any other, mobile is the ecosystem that has given rise to the sea-change taking place in...

Mobile Payments
The Science Of Super Bowl Parking
February 05, 2016

With about 75,000 headed to the Super Bowl on Sunday, Levi’s Stadium is going to be dealing with a minimum of 12,000 vehicles needing a place to park. ParkHub Founder and CEO George Baker and CMO Jarrod Fresquez discuss with MPD CEO Karen Webster how...

Mobile Payments
Venmo’s Twist On The Buy Button
February 04, 2016

If the future of mobile payments and mobile commerce is all about Millennials and P2P, then Venmo’s could be in the right place at the right time. Well, if you believe what the analysts say. Forrester projects that the P2P payments market will reach $17 billion...

Mobile Payments
Gaming Industry Gets New eWallet Solution
February 02, 2016

The old parable of the chicken and the egg doesn’t seem to hold much water when applied to the decidedly modern sectors of mobile payments and online and mobile gaming, but if larger revenue streams are the end goal, providers can’t wait until they come...

Mobile Payments
Will The Global mPay Market Hit $650B?
February 02, 2016

A new estimate for the global mobile payments market has high hopes for the mobile payments ecosystem. And it comes with a $650 billion figure. A new report from global market research firm TrendForce suggests that, by the end of 2016, the total estimated revenue for...

Visa’s NFC Super Bowl
February 01, 2016

Visa’s digital side is ready to make another Super Bowl appearance. As part of a new partnership with the NFL, Visa has made a deal to provide the roughly 700 NFC-enabled POS terminals for cardholders who want to use their smartphone to swipe, tap or click-to-pay....

Tencent’s WeChat Beats Apple Pay To Hong Kong
January 29, 2016

Before Apple could land Apple Pay in China’s growing mobile payments market, China’s second-largest Internet company, Tencent, announced Thursday (Jan. 28) that its WeChat mobile wallet has arrived in Hong Kong. Hong Kong users who are participating in the pilot program of the WeChat Wallet service...

Where Mobile Online Transactions Are Really Taking Off
January 27, 2016

In case there’s a doubt about the momentum of the mobile payments market, just take a look at the new report from Adyen, the global payments firm. In its latest quarterly Mobile Payments Index, which tracks mobile payments data from browser-based transactions from its customers,...

Starbucks Transactions Now 21 Percent On Mobile
January 22, 2016

Quarter after quarter, Starbucks’ earnings remind everyone why CEO Howard Schultz can, time and time again, call his coffee company the “undisputed leader in mobile commerce.” He confirmed that assertion during the company’s first quarter earnings call with analysts when he revealed that 21 percent of...