Mobile payments have been the future of payments for a long time. For longer, in fact, than there have even been smartphones — PayPal got its start as a scheme to enable payments between PalmPilots (granted, it was a pretty short-lived scheme). But the mobile...
U.S. fans of fast food giant McDonald’s have something new to look forward to. As part of the restaurant chain’s work to upgrade its restaurant and ordering technology offerings, McDonald’s recently announced plans to roll out a mobile order and payment service to all 20,000...
When Walmart Pay first appeared on the scene a little over a year ago, it seemed something of the mobile payments odd man out. While the rest of the world was trumpeting the power and potential of NFC and contactless payments, Walmart Pay was built...
Rambus Inc. has introduced a new comprehensive mobile payments platform: the Rambus Unified Payment Platform. According to Finextra, the platform is revolutionary in that it will enable customers to pay through a variety of methods, including credit, points and coupons, in a single transaction. It...
By the numbers, PayPal had a very good day yesterday. The headline figure was 200 million — the number of active consumer or member accounts PayPal is boasting these days. That figure may not come as much of a shock considering that when PayPal released...
Gulf Oil’s new Gulf Pay app has a Masterpass-shaped update coming its way. Mastercard has formally announced plans to integrate its digital payments platform into Gulf’s new mobile payment play. The Gulf app is powered by P97’s PetroZone mobile commerce platform — and comes loaded not...
UnionPay International has made more progress in expanding its mobile QuickPass worldwide, now offering the payment option in Hong Kong, through a collaboration with Bank of China. Hong Kong is a huge market for the company, with 16 million cards currently issued — that means...
Worries over security concerns have prevented digital payments from taking off in Japan, but that is starting to change with Japanese smartphone owners indicating interest in mobile payments. According to a report, a survey of smartphone users in Japan conducted in October by Hakuhodo, a Japanese advertising...
When it comes to spending in the marketplace, there’s no doubt that the tween and teen set carry a lot of clout. In fact, children ages 17 and under are responsible for more than $830 billion in annual spending — prompting one company to design...
