Chase has tapped into a new target audience by teaming up with David Guetta to encourage iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users to adopt Apple Pay by giving away David Guetta’s newest album Listen. Here is the official announcement from Chase: “With Chase and...
Sephora officially announced last week the adoption of Apple Pay at all Bay Area stores. Sephora also indicated that Apple Pay would be accepted at the Lexington store in Manhattan as well. Sephora reported that over 70% of Sephora’s in-store customers are also iPhone users...
A consumer survey has Apple Pay users saying that they are three times more likely to spend $250 or more than those using other mobile wallets, according to a Computerworld story about the survey from Retale. But like everything else in life, context is everything....
Gartner Security Analyst Avivah Litan is arguing that many Apple Pay transactions are missing the value of Apple’s security approach because of POS issues. “Some vendors who certified their payment card applications for point to point encryption left out certification of the contactless payments since...
When almost three quarters of a store’s customers are also holding iPhones, an integration with Apple Pay seems a natural moved. Sephora, whose internal data indicates that around 70 percent of their in-store customers are also iPhone owners was not able to offer Apple Pay...
Last week, the Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC), which represents major retailers, hosted a box-lunch presentation to alert legislators about promising cost-saving technologies and the importance of doing them no harm. According to reports, the rapidly approaching beginning of the heavily Republican 114th Congress has some...
In the beginning there was Honey, and the the app found help shoppers save at checkout, and the app was good. And then the creators of of Honey launched Milk (get it: Milk and Honey) to help consumer save at the grocery store, and brought with...
“The path to any success is lined with disasters.” Adam Davidson wrote a pretty thought-provoking article on failure that was published in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago. This quote from his piece sums up his assertion that innovation today is a...
E-Commerce services firm Bigcommerce has emptied an investment shopping cart to the tune of $50 million, courtesy of SoftBank Capital, American Express Ventures, Telstra Ventures, Revolution Growth and General Catalyst, Recode reported. “Led by CEO Eddie Machaalani, Bigcommerce sells subscriptions to its software platform, which...
