June 30, 2015
Microsoft Nabs First Compatible mPOS
Microsoft is enlisting the help of fellow payment service providers to bring mobile payment capabilities to retailers. The company’s Microsoft Mobile unit revealed Monday (June 29) that it has struck...
June 30, 2015
A CFO When You Need One
The business-to-business sector is eagerly catching on to the on-demand and mobile services economy. The market is young and at present offers mostly basic services, like catering or enterprise-specific taxi...
June 30, 2015
Facebook And Google Neck And Neck In User Facetime
Forrester Research announced a study that showed the notion that Google should be suffering from smartphone users opting for time with apps rather than Web surfing does not in fact...
June 30, 2015
PayPal Redials Its Robocall Feature
In the wake of criticism from both users and regulators, PayPal is scaling back once-ambitious plans to change its user agreement to allow automated calls and text messages. As widely...
June 30, 2015
Pinterest Boosts Mobile Downloads 100 Percent
The combination of unlocking tracking data and implementing test campaigns has positioned social media channel Pinterest to increase its mobile app downloads by more than 100 percent, Mobile Marketer reported...
June 30, 2015
Oracle Streamlines eCommerce With Cloud Commerce
On its quest to become the “world’s largest enterprise cloud company” — as Oracle CEO Mark Hurd recently declared — Oracle unveiled yesterday (June 29) its Oracle Commerce Cloud, an SaaS...
June 30, 2015
CM Telecom Opens CM Payments Worldwide
A mobile service provider has expanded its way into the international payments space. CM Telecom recently announced that it has founded a new payments service called CM Payments, which will also...
June 30, 2015
Smartphone Addiction Connects More To Mobile Banking
As more and more consumers stay connected to their smartphones, the same addiction seems to be translating to mobile banking. A new report from Bank of America indicates that 38...
June 30, 2015
Lifestyle Mobile Payments App Banks On Affluent Millennials
Velocity, a lifestyle app enabling restaurant diners to pay and earn rewards right from their mobile devices, secured one of the largest Series A funding rounds for a U.K.-based company...
Convenience has made digital wallets the fastest-growing payment method in the U.S. and influences users to spend more than nonusers, yet only 57% of small businesses offer digital wallet payments to their customers. This edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how payment providers can help merchants overcome preconceptions about security, complexity and technology to stay on top of the trend.
