December 26, 2012
Discover On Passbook: mPayments Benefits Are Increasingly Visible
Discover made major headlines earlier this month, becoming the second major U.S. network to add Apple Passbook integration to its mobile app and granting cardholders access to electronic cash back...
December 26, 2012
A History Of The Bar Code: Homage To A Commerce...
The next time you successfully purchase an item with a bar code on its packaging, keep N. Joseph Woodland in mind. The name will be foreign to most. Woodland, a...
December 20, 2012
Swedish City Aims For Cashless Conversion
Does a “cashless utopia” sound too goo to be true? That’s what the city of Uppsala, Sweden is aiming to become, as Swedenbank and MasterCard trial the use of several...
December 19, 2012
PayPal President Forecasts NFC-Free 2013
PayPal president David Marcus is forecasting a year of disruption in the shopping and payment space in 2013, but insists that NFC technology will not play a part in the...
December 19, 2012
Swedbank Trials Mobile Couponing In Uppsala
Swedbank has partnered with Uppsala’s merchants to pilot a mobile couponing service. The trial is part of an initiative to eradicate cash to fight local crime. The Swedish bank is...
December 19, 2012
Mobile Coupons Will Be Big In 2013
The number of consumers receiving coupons via mobile devices is expected to rise by 30% next year to more than 500 million people, a new report from Juniper Research has...
December 18, 2012
U.S.: New information suggests Instagram exec lied to feds in...
According to incoming reports, Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom may not have told the entire truth in testimony given to the Federal Trade Commission during the mobile phone application company’s...
December 18, 2012
Square Register’s Push For Mid-Size Merchants
Bigger is not always better. In the wake of Square’s megadeal with Starbucks this past August, it’s easy to assume that the mobile payments company’s best bet is to look...
December 18, 2012
RBS, NatWest To Give $16.25 Million Back To Customers
The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest have set aside $16.25 to refund customers who forgot to pick up cash dispensed at ATMS and then saw their money transferred into...
The pandemic is making cash all but a nonstarter for today’s no touch customers – and restaurants that can’t deliver touchless payments will find themselves in hot water. In the Order To Eat Tracker, Chris Birkinshaw, CEO of poke bowl chain Aloha Poke Co., explains why the rapid shift to cashless transactions has made contactless offerings imperative.
