May 26, 2015
B2B eCommerce Rivalry Between China, India Heats Up
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be pushing for a rise in Made-In-India manufacturing, but competitive pricing from China often proves too good to pass up, especially in the eCommerce...
May 26, 2015
Is The Fleet Card Business Fueling Up?
The fleet card market is expected to grow $35 billion by 2019, a more than $20 billion increase from its current value. However, it still remains a highly fragmented and...
May 26, 2015
Microsoft’s Plan To Buy Salesforce Flops
While all signs were pointing to a Salesforce acquisition by Microsoft, it appears as though that deal has fallen through, CNBC reported, citing people said to be familiar with the matter....
May 26, 2015
Bluetooth’s Not-So-Smart Tech Security Flaws
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is at the center of cybersecurity attention, raising concerns about privacy and confidentiality. Context, a specialized consultancy, proved that BLE signals transmitted by many mobile phones,...
May 26, 2015
Snapchat Springs Investment Into Shopping App
Photo-sharing service Snapchat is investing in Spring, a shopping app launched in August 2014, according to a May 22 story from Re/code. Only three weeks ago, Spring closed a $25...
May 26, 2015
Chinese Regulators Put Brakes on Facial-Recognition for Payment
“Say cheese?” The central bank in China says “no dice” — at least for new customers. Chinese regulators are forbidding banks from utilizing biometric technology to verify new customers’ identities,...
May 26, 2015
Virgin America Goes One-Click Payments
Virgin America Inc. intends to expand its digital footprint and create a “frictionless” transaction model based in part on Amazon’s signature one-click service, using digital payment tech and analytics, The...
May 26, 2015
Inside NSA’s Plans To Hack Smartphone App Stores
The National Security Agency, along with several U.S. allies, developed a covert plan to hack smartphones using Samsung and Google apps. The intelligence efforts – which sought to infect those...
May 26, 2015
Google Will Launch Android Pay At I/O Developer Conference
In two days, thousands of developers, tech enthusiasts and journalists will converge for Google’s annual I/O developer conference. This event is where everyone’s favorite not evil company trots out its next...
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.
