In a duo of partnership news that ties in with the emergence of mobile payments, Fifth Third Bank said on Wednesday (June 8) that it has begun to offer its consumers the option to transact with credit and debit cards using the Samsung Pay platform....
If mobile is the commerce platform of the future, then apps have been anointed as its chosen champions. Whether they’re dedicated marketplaces or just random utility apps, the push seems to be on from retailers to transition whatever mobile-based services their consumers are currently using...
“Factory Floor” once only meant assembly lines and physical products. But Visa SVP Todd Brockman tells Karen Webster that Visa’s been hard at work on their “apps factory floor” creating a mobile commerce platform that puts the power of issuer-branded digital credentials in the hands...
Facebook has hung its hat on the future of chatbots as a means of automated customer service, and when the social network provides such a platform, it was always a matter of time before smaller startups started leveraging that support. Count Israeli startup AppFront as one of...
Retailers have looked everywhere for the silver bullet to mobile checkout conversion. For a hot second, the key was in smart and efficient site design. When apps become the platform du jour, a new host of promotions, targeted ads and other add-ons were thought to have...
Not much of a dip, as shares were down less than 1 percent on Thursday (June 2), but nonetheless, Apple got a bit of a downer from Goldman Sachs. As has been widely reported, the investment bank trimmed its price target on the tech juggernaut...
Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) may soon introduce advanced mobile order and pay at the catering locations across all of its locations after receiving “fantastic” feedback from a test run of the service. The “order and pay with mobile” solution from U.K. FinTech startup WoraPay was...
Canadian FinTech firm ChangeJar is launching a mobile app that lets users pay for transactions with their smartphones using their loose change. In a press release on Monday (May 30), the firm noted that the app, which launched at several Ottawa cafes and merchants, lets users accumulate the...
Moms are a desired consumer demographic. New moms, olds moms and grandmothers alike all can wield the family budget, in addition to whatever they decide to splurge on themselves. Now, Destination Maternity is making sure it’s there for any expecting mothers who do their shopping...
