At fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff’s store in New York’s fashionable Soho district, a dressing room has a digital mirror that identifies garments, makes accessory recommendations and can summon sales associates to bring in that garment in alternative colors and sizes. But what makes this digital...
Google Wallet has officially pulled out of the in-app business—although it will continue to handle such purchases until March 2, 2015—and has gone out of its way to neither offer a replacement service nor to steer any business to any existing service. A Q&A on...
In case the E-commerce giant in China hasn’t proved it’s place in the E-commerce shopping marketplace yet, its new mobile apps might give it another edge. And they come equipped for Apple Pay. Alibaba’s boutique shop 11 Main now has new mobile apps designed to...
New mobile payment laws — particularly surrounding security measures — are likely to be proposed by the European Commission, Out-Law.com reported Thursday (Nov. 13), citing an official at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. That indication stemmed from a Global Payments Conference in London recently where Nilixa Devlukia, technical...
When the telco-based mobile wallet ISIS (from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile) recently changed its name to Softcard, it was done partially to distinguish itself from the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist group with the same name, standing for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. But the...
When Tapinator, which develops mobile games, announced Thursday (Nov. 13) that it had acquitted InAppFuel, a mobile casino business, it had interesting implications for payments. Although in-app purchases in gaming represents serious dollars, the online gambling world represents serious payments difficulties, with some cards refusing...
Samsung Electronics and SAP agreed this week to jointly develop mobile applications for B2B companies in retail, petrochemical, finance and health care. The agreement will “integrate payments to be made on-to-go, along with helping to shed light on innovative shopping experiences for consumers and retailers...
Over the past decade, the financial services industry has buzzed over mobile and how it will influence payments. And while the payment mechanism has attracted the attention even of non-financial consumer brands like Google and Apple, consumers clearly want more than just that mechanism. In...
Square on Wednesday (Nov. 12) started taking orders for its already-announced EMV readers. The smartphone component will cost $29 and a desktop version $39. To put that into context, Square’s magstripe versions have always been free. Square said in a blog post that the units...
