USA Today has weighed in on the Apple Pay MCX CurrentC issue and is not pulling any punches. MCX seems to be what would have happened had “the Three Stooges had been given the assignment of introducing a new and safer way for consumers to...
You know mobile payments has gone mainstream when your mother starts talking about it – and it’s the topic of conversation on every single news program nearly nonstop. CNBC’s coverage of it yesterday is just the latest example of the media talk track on Apple...
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga used Thursday’s (Oct. 30) earnings announcement to make a case that the brand’s own MasterPass starts where partner Apple Pay stops, with loyalty and other promotional capabilities. MasterCard has a strong commitment to Apple Pay, as evidenced by its recent launch of MasterCard Nearby that allows...
Never let it be said that Apple doesn’t know how to launch a product. As October ends, Apple can report 1+ million downloads of its new digital wallet in just three days, a milestone that took Dunkin’ Donuts 6 weeks to achieve and Starbucks even...
What a week for Apple Pay! CurrentC strong arms its merchants to switch off NFC so their customers can’t tap their spanking new iPhone 6s to pay—or for that matter anything else that uses NFC. Apple Pay gets even more publicity. Tim Cook then whacks...
Q3 shaped up to be a tough quarter for Groupon – the online discount merchant turned e-retailer suffered a loss of $21.2 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $2.6 million. Revenues, however, were on the upswing – Groupon saw revenue...
The run-up to a Chinese Shopping holiday known as Singles Day (in honor of unattached consumers who are encouraged to buy themselves nice things) has tipped off a trademark spat between Chinese e-commerce players. The dispute came into focus after Alibaba rival, JD.com, publicly published...
Although Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said his coffee company has already found the recipe to capture a loyal base of mobile customers, he said the launch of Starbucks’ mobile order and pay app in December will be the single-most important technology innovation introduced by the...
E-tailer QVC announced Thursday (Oct. 30) that it will let shoppers use the TouchID fingerprint recognition capabilities on recent iPhone models to authenticate purchases in-app instead of passwords or PINs. For customers using iOS 8-enabled iPhone 5S, 6 and 6+ phones, the fingerprint scan will...
