Mobile Payments

A mobile payment is a money payment made for a product or service through a portable electronic device such as a tablet or cell phone. Mobile payment technology can also be used to send money to friends or family members, such as with the applications PayPal and Venmo.

Source: investopedia.com

Why The Customer Experience Is A Program, Not A Project
Why The Customer Experience Is A Program, Not A Project
September 17, 2020  |  POS Innovation

The pandemic has reshaped how we interact with merchants — and what we expect, as customers, from those increasingly digital interactions. Call it the transformation...

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Odds Are That Online Sportsbook Wins Big Post-COVID
Odds Are That Online Sportsbook Wins Big Post-COVID
September 16, 2020  |  Digital Payments

It’s been said that “gamblers find things to gamble on.” Online sportsbooks have been beneficiaries of that dictum ever since COVID-19 eradicated most live sports,...

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Today In How We Eat: Starbucks Sweetens Loyalty And Meal Kit Subscriptions Soar
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September 16, 2020  |  Commerce Connected

Consumers’ appetite for change as to how they feed themselves has been particularly busy of late, pushing Starbucks to sweeten its loyalty offerings to customers...

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PayPal’s Jim Magats: How The Last Six Months Has Changed The Future Of How Consumers Will Shop
PayPal’s Jim Magats: How The Last Six Months Has Changed The Future Of How Consumers...
September 16, 2020  |  Retail

When stay-at-home orders first went out in mid-March, consumers didn’t really see it as the start of a major shift in their lives. Most thought...

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Digital Exercise Brands Get Pumped Up As In-Person Fitness Loses Muscle
Digital Exercise Brands Get Pumped Up As In-Person Fitness Loses Muscle
September 15, 2020  |  Commerce Connected

Just when it seemed America was starting to actually use gym and fitness studio memberships that so often fall dormant after a few visits, COVID-19...

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Today In How We Eat:  Drone Deliveries Take Off,  Walmart vs Amazon Prime
Today In How We Eat: Drone Deliveries Take Off, Walmart vs Amazon Prime
September 15, 2020  |  Subscription Commerce

Today in how we eat, the world of delivery gets a close-up as drones prepare to take to the skies to drop groceries off at...

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GIACT On Getting Ready For Nacha’s Debit Account Validation Changes
GIACT On Getting Ready For Nacha’s Debit Account Validation Changes
September 15, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

The old saying goes: Faster payments, faster fraud. To that end, in an interview with PYMNTS, Kimber Johnson, executive vice president of strategic alliances at...

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What To Expect From Apple’s Big Tuesday Event
What To Expect From Apple’s Big Tuesday Event
September 15, 2020  |  Apple

Fall is here, a fact made obvious if not by the weather than by the rapid proliferation of pumpkin spice-flavored products, the legion of cottage...

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Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet
Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet
September 14, 2020  |  Omnicommerce

Our first glimpse of the not-so-distant future of handheld tech was ‘the communicator’ on TV’s “Star Trek” in the late 1960s, providing science fiction’s vision...

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