With a requirement of being able to accept NFC at all stores right away, it’s not surprising that the list of retailers with no plans to immediately support Apple Pay is huge. Add to that fact that some chains have competitive reasons to shun Apple Pay...
The preparations for Apple Pay’s launch are in motion, with a Walgreens memo saying that it will launch Saturday (Oct. 18). “Customers that participate in Apple Pay will immediately be able to use the service,” said the Walgreens memo to store managers, according to a...
The launch of Apple Pay has kept everyone in payments pretty busy speculating about its impact to others with digital wallet/account ambitions. What’s been ignored, at least so far, is the impact of Apple getting into payments on every other facet of the payments ecosystem....
Online retailers face losing at least a fourth — sometimes nearly half — of their customer base at checkout because of hurdles like consumer distrust of website payment methods, lacking preferred payment, wonky or slow sites and caveats of having to register too much personal...
Want to be the smartest person in the room on Monday morning? Check out a few of the stats that you may have missed last week about Apple Pay, PayPal and consumer spending. 100 Billion | PayPal’s projected market cap At least that’s what The...
When it comes to mPOS there are only three things that merchants want: business apps, business apps, and business apps. That’s what ROAM’s VP of Marketing and Solutions Scott Holt told MPD CEO Karen Webster that he’s hearing from his customers. Oh, and how they...
A U.S. Patent application that Apple filed in late May was published Thursday (Oct. 9) and it provides some delightfully geeky peeks into what appears to be Apple Pay—or at least how Apple Pay was envisioned a few months before launch. For example, the filing...
Investor extraordinaire Carl Icahn sees Apple Pay as one of several factors that is going to propel the Apple and its new iPhones. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday (Oct. 9), Icahn offered a variety of observations and insights into what...
Two PayPal execs have been quoted saying that PayPal could top a market capitalization of $100 billion. A Motley Fool writer, though, ran some calculations and concluded that the only way this makes sense is if PayPal intends to become a true processor. An idea,...
