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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How The Pandemic Has Helped Push P2P Payments Mainstream
How The Pandemic Has Helped Push P2P Payments Mainstream
June 12, 2020  |  Payment Methods

U.S. millennials were early adopters of person-to-person (P2P) payment apps, while Baby Boomers sought out financial institution-based P2P options and older consumers were slow to...

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NEW DATA: The Four Shopper Personas Driving The Digital Shift
NEW DATA: The Four Shopper Personas Driving The Digital Shift
June 11, 2020  |  Coronavirus

It has been 11 weeks since California became the first U.S. state to declare a state-wide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19. By late...

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Just Eat Takeaway.com To Buy Grubhub In $7.3 Billion Deal
Just Eat Takeaway.com To Buy Grubhub In $7.3 Billion Deal
June 10, 2020  |  Acquiring

Just Eat Takeaway.com agreed on Wednesday (June 10) to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion in a move that could result in the world’s largest online...

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How To Digitally Reinvent A Restaurant In Real Time
How To Digitally Reinvent A Restaurant In Real Time
June 10, 2020  |  Restaurant innovation

The global Covid-19 pandemic hit the restaurant industry in U.S. Northeastern cities like New York and Boston with an incredible and nearly unexpected force, a...

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Neither U.S. Consumers Nor Epidemiologists Expect To Get Back To Normal Any Time Soon
Neither U.S. Consumers Nor Epidemiologists Expect To Get Back To Normal Any Time Soon
June 09, 2020  |  Economy

An awful lot of time has been spent studying how the average consumer will react to the U.S. economy’s “grand reopening.” How do they feel...

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Credit Unions’ Bid To Bridge The Challenger Bank Perception-vs.-Reality Gap
Credit Unions’ Bid To Bridge The Challenger Bank Perception-vs.-Reality Gap
June 09, 2020  |  Credit Unions

In the battle against digital challenger banks, credit unions (CUs) may be facing a bit of a perception/reality gap — and losing market share as...

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Amazon Shopping AI Lets Consumers Try On Digital Outfits, Makes Fashion Suggestions
Amazon Shopping AI Lets Consumers Try On Digital Outfits, Makes Fashion Suggestions
June 08, 2020  |  Amazon

Amazon could be planning an artificial intelligence-driven virtual shopping service, according to documents from a presentation planned for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and...

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Facebook Uses Retail Data To Train Chatbots To Be Like Humans
Facebook Uses Retail Data To Train Chatbots To Be Like Humans
June 08, 2020  |  Facebook

Facebook has launched, what it calls, a new way to train artificial intelligence (AI) in chatbots. Researchers at the social network giant described how data...

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Building Cities With Online Platforms And Opportunity Zones
Building Cities With Online Platforms And Opportunity Zones
June 05, 2020  |  Investments

If recent headlines have taught us anything, it is that economic support and investments can go a long way toward helping cities, businesses and individuals...

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