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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GasBuddy: Making Friends On Both Sides Of The Gas Pump

GasBuddy: Making Friends On Both Sides Of The Gas Pump
GasBuddy: Making Friends On Both Sides Of The Gas Pump
September 05, 2017  |  Payment Methods

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, huge swaths of Texas ran out of fuel. Customers were sitting in milelong lines at a dwindling number of...

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Where In The World Is Alipay?
Where In The World Is Alipay?
September 04, 2017  |  Cross-border Payments

Where in the world is Alipay? At this point, pretty much everywhere Chinese tourists might want to go, with most of Europe and North America...

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Alipay App To Be Accepted In South Africa
Alipay App To Be Accepted In South Africa
September 01, 2017  |  Mobile Payments

Alipay has partnered with Zapper, the fast-growing mobile payment, customer insights and digital marketing platform developed in South Africa, so Chinese tourists can use their...

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Apple To Let Chinese Consumers Pay For App Purchases Via WeChat Pay
Apple To Let Chinese Consumers Pay For App Purchases Via WeChat Pay
August 31, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Tech giant Apple is embracing WeChat Pay, giving consumers in China more ways to pay for purchases. The WeChat Pay digital payment service is offered by China-based...

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Why Mastercard Is Powering Contactless Payments In Poland
Why Mastercard Is Powering Contactless Payments In Poland
August 31, 2017  |  Mastercard

Poland has been hard at work burnishing its image as a tech hub over the last several years. A country in which financial services were largely...

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Bezos Vs. Ma: Who’s Ahead In Grocery?
Bezos Vs. Ma: Who’s Ahead In Grocery?
August 30, 2017  |  ResTech

Those who prophesied the death of brick-and-mortar retail in favor of online alternatives may have been premature. Sure, merchants without an online presence are largely...

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Target Merges Cartwheel Into Its Main App
Target Merges Cartwheel Into Its Main App
August 29, 2017  |  Retail

Target appears to have grown weary of maintaining separate apps – one as its flagship phone application and another displaying its Cartwheel deals – and...

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For Mobile Payments, The Lure Of Everyday Life
For Mobile Payments, The Lure Of Everyday Life
August 29, 2017  |  Today In Data

What is the tipping point for mobile payments? It’s not just infrastructure, as our latest Data Drivers details. According to Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Mobile,...

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