American Airlines recently announced that it will be launching a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon pilot program in Dallas. It will be rolled out in beta to select airports and routes in North America over the summer. According to NFC World, American Airlines will be using...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 29 Bitcoin is still narrowly below $600 this week, at $597.46, up from $584.22 on June 12th, according to the PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. Despite the slight increase in trading...
The battle for mobile app market dominance between Google – whose Andriod platform that powers the majority of cell phones on the market – and Apple – whose app store dominates in downloads and developer interest – has opened a new front: mobile health. Google...
The Australian bank Westpac announced recently that the majority of its customers want their mobile banking options to be on par with what can be done on a desktop. Westpac conducted a survey of 820 of its customers, and found that 75 percent of those...
HelloFresh, a service that delivers a box of pre-measured ingredients and cooking instructions, has just picked up $50 million in the largest funding round of its kind to continue its European and U.S. expansion. It is not the only company that offers this type of...
As peer-to-peer financing networks are gaining more ground in Great Britain and the coalition government is pushing legislation that would require banks direct rejected loan applicant to alternative financial services, Santander will be the first high-street bank to officially partner with a P2P service. Funding...
@WalmartLabs – the mega-retailer’s Silicon Valley-based R&D and innovation hub – has just made its first acquisition from New York’s so-called Silicon Alley in the form of fashion app Stylr. Stylr is Walmart R&D’s 13th overall acquisition. “As we continue to integrate digital and...
A new form of a mobile Trojan virus appears to target online banking, and it potentially could place multiple banks’ customers at risk. More than 100 million Americans use mobile banking. Kaspersky Lab says is has detected the malicious software, called Svpeng, operating in the...
In a move to perhaps curb illegal online downloads, PayPal UK announced earlier this week that it is extending its buyer protection to cover services, digital goods, travel tickets and “other intangible items,” reported a recent Gizmodo post. Now, the e-commerce company’s buyer protection offering...
