This week the University of Oklahoma will be a payments pioneer as it becomes the first university to accept Apple Pay across its campus. And it is clearly pretty proud of itself, as the blog post announcing Apple Pay indicated. The post referred to the ability to pay sans...
Small, mobile merchants want one and only one thing: a simple way to take their customer’s favorite payments methods. Flint CEO Greg Goldfarb describes how he thinks he's cracked the code for mobile merchants and their interest in becoming more integrated with Apple Pay and...
Amid a tech revolution, retailers can improve customer service, data security, and margins all at the same time, an ACI white paper finds.
A decade ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave birth to an intellectual debate with his declaration that globalization – driven by technology and the digitization of business and trade — had rendered the world effectively “flat.” And while that may have been true...
A majority of shoppers browse through retail apps before actually venturing to a store to make the leap into buying a product, a recent survey says. According to Apptentive, which conducted research involving 350 consumers last month, would-be buyers use apps in a way that aids...
Rite Aid has reversed its previous refusal to accept Apple Pay and is now supporting the platform, along with Google Wallet, in what some industry watchers see as a troubling development for the mobile payments consortium known as MCX. In a release Tuesday (Aug. 11),...
Digital Retail Apps, the startup behind shopping and self-checkout solution SelfPay, announced yesterday (Aug. 10) it secured $1 million in funding.
Apple Pay has linked with another credit union, offering the payments platform to members shopping at participating stores. As reported in a Monday (Aug. 10) release, Bellco — the credit union based in Colorado with 21 branches, more than 250,000 members and as much as $2.9 billion...
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, is often compared to Apple founder Steve Jobs, a comparison intended to be simultaneously flattering and unkind. Both men were tech visionaries whose ideas...
