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.

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Fave: Inside Southeast Asia’s Merchant Super App
Fave: Inside Southeast Asia’s Merchant Super App
August 03, 2020  |  Mobile Payments

Mobile payments penetration has historically faced a gap in Southeast Asia, Joel Neoh, founder of leading regional online-to-offline company Fave, told Karen Webster. Consumers in...

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Apple Buys Mobeewave For $100M
Apple Buys Mobeewave For $100M
August 02, 2020  |  Apple

Apple has purchased Canadian company Mobeewave, which will allow it to create mobile pay hubs out of iPhones, Bloomberg reported. The deal went down for...

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PayPal’s Plan For Seamless, Touch-Free QR Code Commerce
PayPal’s Plan For Seamless, Touch-Free QR Code Commerce
July 31, 2020  |  eCommerce

From complex biopharma work on a vaccine to a galaxy of cloud solution providers harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the commercial response to...

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The Big U.S. GDP Crash Reverses Economic Growth Of Last 11 Years
The Big U.S. GDP Crash Reverses Economic Growth Of Last 11 Years
July 30, 2020  |  Economy

“Worst quarter ever.” It sounds like a bit of hyperbole, but that’s an accurate description of the quarter that started in March and ended in June...

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Augmenting Payment Rails To Drive Value For Business Users
Augmenting Payment Rails To Drive Value For Business Users
July 30, 2020  |  B2B Payments

As businesses large and small expand their payments technology adoption, financial service providers are seeking to augment an array of existing and new payment rails...

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Strong Venmo And QR Code Payments Growth Help PayPal Score Record Q2 Earnings
Strong Venmo And QR Code Payments Growth Help PayPal Score Record Q2 Earnings
July 29, 2020  |  Earnings

In an earnings season defined by diminished expectations amid the worldwide economic shutdown, PayPal not only beat analysts’ expectations Wednesday (July 29) but enjoyed a...

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For Corporate Treasurers, The Real-Time Payments Stakes Are High
For Corporate Treasurers, The Real-Time Payments Stakes Are High
July 29, 2020  |  B2B Payments

With faster and real-time payments progress being made in the U.S. on multiple fronts, consumers are often at the focus of emerging conversations about the...

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Venmo’s New Boss On Scaling And Monetizing The Venmo Community
Venmo’s New Boss On Scaling And Monetizing The Venmo Community
July 28, 2020  |  Digital Payments

“Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.” That ancient proverb, one oft-repeated by mothers and fathers to their daughters and...

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What SMBs Risk When They let Supply Chain Threats Linger
What SMBs Risk When They let Supply Chain Threats Linger
July 24, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Procurement teams have a lot on their plate. On top of acting as a key component of their enterprises’ broader payments and workflow digitization strategies,...

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