The war on obesity is starting to wrack up casualties from causes other than diabetes and heat disease. McDonalds has seen its profits take a 30 percent hit in Q3 2014. The problems on U.S. soil with changing opinions on fast food were compounded by...
Alibaba’s executive chairman, Jack Ma, said late Monday (Oct. 27) that Alibaba would like to partner with Apple on financial payments, but offered no details on what such a deal might look like. “I hope we can do something together,” Ma said, according to a...
Wall Street is starting to notice the many benefactors of payments changed fueled by Apple Pay and at the top of that list is now VeriFone, reports Barron’s. The rationale is that Apple Pay will push a new wave of POS upgrades to support NFC....
Apple is talking with multiple companies about using Apple Pay’s NFC to replace public transit tickets as well as building keycards, according to a report in The Information. Apple is talking with HID Global and Cubic, which both specialize in making secure keycard building access and...
When it was announced that Apple was adding TouchID to the next gen iPad, some questioned if it was a precursor to making ApplePay available as well. That seemed unlikely, since the iPad did not seem to come with an NFC Chip. Surprise! According to...
MasterCard launched its Nearby App as a companion app for Apple Pay, enabling consumers to locate the 220,000+ merchants in the United States that can currently accept contactless payments.
Ring, ring. Hi, Rite Aid. This is CurrentC (or a CurrentC rep) calling. You might not remember this since it was a few years and several marketing executives ago, but you signed a contract that pledged your undying and exclusive love to our own proprietary...
The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes) scary costumes and going door to door “trick or treat-ing” for candy. It’s a pretty big deal where I live...
Apple in general—and the iPhone in particular—is having an outsized impact on the U.S. and global economies, according to a provocative piece in The New York Times. The argument goes like this: Apple is the world’s largest company, when measured by market capitalization and it...
