In the beginning there was Honey, and the the app found help shoppers save at checkout, and the app was good. And then the creators of of Honey launched Milk (get it: Milk and Honey) to help consumer save at the grocery store, and brought with...
PCH International is trying to buy Fab for $15 million in a half cash and half stock deal, TechCrunch is reporting. “If it does happen, we’ve been told that some assets will be rolled into Fab founder Jason Goldberg’s new furniture design company Hem and...
MasterCard sees mobile payment security as crucial, but it’s power is relevant only to the point that shoppers are actually using it. And with Apple Pay, that is starting to happening meaningfully. In a talk with analysts on Wednesday (Nov. 19), Ed McLaughlin, the chief...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 50 When hype goes up, bitcoin prices go up. At least that’s what researchers at Poland’s Nicolaus Copernicus University have found. But this week, there weren’t as many Google searches or news mentions of bitcoin...
Square has gone global. The mobile payments startup announced in London on Thursday (Nov. 20) that its Square Register point-of-sale suite is now available worldwide and supports four languages and 130 currencies. But the international version of Register can’t yet accept credit and debit card...
In a clever twist on an age-old corporate purchasing dilemma, a merged channel company has worked with Chase Paymentech to allow employees who need to make last-minute supply purchases to do so using a corporate code. The problem: Due to a major last-minute client presentation,...
Technically, the holiday season started November 1st. But we all know that holiday shoppers put their game faces on a week from today on the busiest shopping day of all days in the U.S. – Black Friday. But, this year, brick-and-mortar merchants may be...
Given the fresh popularity boost that Apple Pay has given NFC, concerns about the transmission’s use outside of Apple Pay has raised security concerns. Two companies, Oberthur Technologies and Mobeewave, are leveraging those fears and have rolled out a product designed to turn any NFC...
When Apple released its software developer kit on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the payment-enabled Apple Watch, it was signaling that its watch is coming soon. But not soon enough for PayPal, which also rolled out its watch-like payment mechanism support for its Pebble app, on...
