Visa and SiriusXM Connected Vehicles Services, a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings, have announced they are teaming up to launch a new in-vehicle payment solution. It has been projected that new services from the connected car space — on-demand mobility services, and data-driven services like applications,...
WhatsApp, Facebook’s messaging app, is still working to launch its digital payments service nationwide in India. WhatsApp Pay, which is facilitated by the Indian government’s UPI payments system, began testing its service in the country earlier this year with around one million users. Since then,...
Tencent, an internet-based technology company based in China, and LINE, a hugely popular messaging app in Japan, have teamed up to provide payment services for Japanese businesses that want to appeal to the growing number of Chinese tourists in the country, according to the Nikkei...
7-Eleven, the convenience store operator, announced on Monday (Nov. 26) that participating stores in Canada will now accept Chinese mobile payment systems Alipay and WeChat Pay. In a press release, 7-Eleven said it is working with CITCON, the cross-border mobile payment company, to make this...
Cashierless payments are set to increasingly be part of the convenience store checkout model. To that end, 7-Eleven said earlier this week that is debuting scan-and-go options at 14 of its Dallas-based stores, with the goal of bringing that technology to additional locations through 2019....
Apple’s taken a beating since announcing its Q4 earnings last week. The stock price is off nearly 7 percent, even though its trillion-dollar market cap remains intact. Analysts and the media smelled blood in the water after CEO Tim Cook said Apple would stop reporting...
A sense of control and security goes a long way toward building confidence, and that’s especially true in payments and commerce. Make consumers feel as though they are in charge, and give them more transparency into their personal payment transactions, and you might not only...
Worldpay, the payment technology company, announced Tuesday (Oct. 16) that for the first time, contactless payments have become more popular than chip and pin card purchases when paying in-store in the U.K. The Guardian reported that Worldpay said it was the first time it has...
PayPal said Thursday that it is teaming up with Walmart to deliver financial services to joint customers, allowing them to access cash at the retailer’s stores. The companies said in a press release that as part of the joint efforts, they will roll out PayPal cash...
