New research about the growth of mobile commerce over the next few years has the web buzzing. But we thought that knowing exactly what retail segments are driving the growth and where the biggest share of spend is and will be over the next several...
eBay is asking users to change their passwords because of a database cyberattack. The company says there is no evidence the compromise has resulted in unauthorized activity for eBay users or that anyone gained access to financial or credit card information, which is stored in...
What can the Ripple protocol do that basic core banking infrastructure can’t? Move money in real time, efficiently, securely and at a lower cost. The Ripple protocol was recently adopted by Fidor AG bank in Germany to increase the speed at which money could move...
The Western Union Company has announced the launch of its dedicated business payments unit as part of its expanded its services in Malaysia. “SMEs are vital to the Malaysian economy, they already contribute nearly one-third of gross domestic product and account for one-fifth of exports,” said Western...
For most of the twentieth century, the most widely used non-cash payment form was checks. Now seen as relatively inefficient, check use overall has waned in favor of electronic methods with the goal of making the payment system more efficient, less time consuming and less...
Some people do not just want to shop, they want to do it responsibly. They want products made with either natural or recycled materials, that are environmentally friendly and that come from brands who support fair working conditions. For those socially conscious shoppers with iPhones (who are apparently unconcerned...
Entersekt has been awarded a U.S. patent for its mobile-enabled multi-factor authentication software. “Established approaches to online security have not been able to contain an explosion in digital crime, so we set out to engineer something entirely new,” said Christiaan Brand, Entersekt’s co-founder and chief...
The world was a different place in 1999-cell phone use was just leaking into the mainstream, Palm Pilots were the next big thing and almost no one had ever thought about the concept of a mobile point-of-sale. Well, almost no one-as it turns out Infinite...
The restaurant industry has an interesting application for the so-called “internet of things,”- they think the data streams it creates can help to build a better point of sale. Among the small army of of technology vendors peddling their point-of-sale wares at this year’s National...
