November 08, 2019
Retail Pulse: CVS, UPS Test Drone Potential; Birchbox Grows Walgreens...
Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming with logistics firms to test drones for delivery — and making progress on their experimental flights. UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward Inc. and CVS Health Corporation...
November 05, 2019
Visa Teams With Tencent To Support Mobile Payments In China
Visa has released a statement saying Tencent’s announcement that it will support international card schemes in its mobile wallet is “a great step forward” for the payments industry. “Visa believes...
October 31, 2019
Top News In Payments: Lyft’s Revenue Rises In Q3; Apple...
In today’s top payment news, Lyft announced third-quarter earnings results that illustrated a rise in ridership and revenue. Also, Apple will be embracing paying for Apple products on installment. And Facebook’s third-quarter results came out ahead of...
October 31, 2019
Visa: How Mass Transit Is Driving Contactless Payments’ Global Future
Seven years ago, when Visa first started working on bringing contactless payments to London’s Mass Transit system, the landscape for tap and go cards looked very different. The technology, Visa’s...
October 30, 2019
Visa Adds 100 Partners To Contactless Transit Program
Visa has announced that 100 partners are now enrolled in its global transit partner program. Visa Ready for Transit gives transit agencies access to an expanded network of technology solutions...
October 25, 2019
Pony.ai Will Pilot Driverless Car Service In California
Pony.ai, a self-driving car startup based in Guangzhou, China, is launching a pilot program to test self-driving cars with a robo taxi service called BotRide. VentureBeat is reporting that the company...
October 18, 2019
Who Will Use Self-Driving Cars?
Last week, Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle business, announced that completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way – at least for customers in the suburbs of Phoenix. And this is...
October 17, 2019
Addressing Community Needs With Self-Driving Innovation
As consumers eschew car ownership, public transportation ridership has increased 21 percent over the past two decades. Recent efforts to upgrade transit systems with connected and autonomous vehicles could further...
October 15, 2019
France: Renault pilots self-driving ride-hailing service
Renault has started a public trial of its on-demand car service on the Paris-Saclay urban campus, according to a press release on Monday, October 14. A panel of around 100...