June 11, 2015
Groupon’s Ideel Says It Will Expand Internationally
Online shopping company Ideel said Wednesday (June 10) that it is branching out internationally starting this month, according to a release. Previously, the company had been selling merchandise in Canada,...
June 11, 2015
Mobile Payments: The Scorecard Edition
Can you imagine going to a baseball game and not being able to keep up with what’s happening by looking at the big scoreboard? Without a scoreboard, you’d have no...
June 11, 2015
GameStop Gears Up Its Omnicommerce Offerings
Three years ago, GameStop’s online strategy had one vision: drive online sales. Fast-forward three years, mobile phone users account for 60 percent of GameStop’s Web traffic and fuel a boost...
June 11, 2015
Judo Payments Will Support Apple Pay Launch In UK
Judo Payments, Europe’s only mobile-first payments platform, confirmed this week (June 9) that it will support Apple Pay during its launch in the U.K. this coming July. Until recently it...
June 11, 2015
Rhombus Platform Shapes SMS Payments
Text-to-pay mobile service Rhombus offers merchants and customer a convenient way to exchange payments through phone messages. “Unlike Square and Venmo the system doesn’t require an app. Instead, users simply text...
June 11, 2015
Facebook Offers Retailers Free Place Tips Beacons
In January, Facebook started testing beacons in New York City as a way of connecting its mobile users to the Facebook pages of nearby shops and landmarks. Now, Facebook wants...
June 11, 2015
SumUp Grabs Up $45M
SumUp, Europe’s leading mPOS company, has raised at least $45 million (€40 million) to date to continue expansion and work on the next generation of its payment hardware around contactless payments,...
June 11, 2015
Prepaid Card Mobilizes Rent Payments For Affordable Housing Tenants
JetPay and Rezzcard are teaming up to provide a range of electronic payment options to tenants of affordable housing properties, the companies announced earlier this month. The eCommerce processor’s card...
June 11, 2015
Throwback Thursday: How Mobile Pay Has Come Full Circle
Everything old is new again. Including the mobile payments ecosystem. Now, depending on who you ask and what generation they’re from they’ll likely start off a story with “Well, back...
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.
