Ebay’s long history in E-Commerce (its Sept. 1995 launch made it one of the very first E-Commerce companies to launch, although Amazon’s July 1994 launch beat it by more than a year) has always been about consumer-to-consumer purchases. This week, it launched a geolocation-based app...
Apple Pay has signed on hundreds of grocery stores throughout the country this week, just in time for the Thanksgiving holidays. Apple officially announced on Tuesday that a number of grocery chains throughout New England, Chicago and southeast Texas are now on board to support...
Adobe Digital Index says that online stores that enable digital wallet payment options are likely to experience a higher conversion rate, with customers 10% more likely to check out when a mobile wallet option is available. With the official rollout of the newest mobile wallet...
If you can download Google Wallet and can somehow persuade enough friends—OK, if you’re trying to force them to use Google Wallet, maybe you better go for acquaintances and distant relatives from your spouse’s family—to do the same, you could pull in $100. The deal...
Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue was featured yesterday on The Tech Report in a segment that utilized the iPhone 6 to make purchases using the newest mobile wallets solution, Apple Pay. Cue’s first demonstration involved Panera’s mobile app, which he used...
For well over a decade, players across the payments space and all around the world have been trying to crack the code on delivering mobile financial services to the un-and-underbanked consumer. And despite many great ideas and the urgent need to move those without bank...
Ezetap, a mobile payment startup, wants to connect small Indian villages with business and is using its mPoS to do so, Business Standard reported. This three-year old Bangalore-based company, which is supported by investors like PayPal founder Peter Thiel, said its mobile payment solution for small...
A report from Ericsson released Tuesday (Nov. 18) shows some startling growth of Internet-connected devices in the U.S., with 90 percent of U.S. households having three or more such devices, while almost half have five or more such devices and almost 25 percent have seven...
How’s this for a little good news this holiday shopping season. Merchants report that conversions are up, order rejections are down and fraud losses are stable – even down a smidge in the mobile and web store categories. In fact, CyberSource’s 2014-15 Online Fraud Benchmark...
