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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Amex Exec Says Mobile Payments A Failure
Amex Exec Says Mobile Payments A Failure
September 09, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

On the eve of Apple’s unveiling of its new iPhone-based payment system, a top executive at American Express said that, so far, efforts to get...

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Does Mobile Payments Need To Be Regulated?
Does Mobile Payments Need To Be Regulated?
September 08, 2014  |  In Depth

How should one regulate the mobile payments marketplace?  Does it even need more regulation, given that the banking, tech and card services companies that comprise...

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CluckCluck: The App For Calling, And Paying Babysitters
CluckCluck: The App For Calling, And Paying Babysitters
June 13, 2014  |  Company Spotlight

Ton of apps help parents find babysitters. But one, called CluckCluck, allows parents to not only communicate with them but pay them as well. PYMNTS.com...

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PS4 Users Can Now Buy Games With Just Their Phone Number
PS4 Users Can Now Buy Games With Just Their Phone Number
June 10, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

Boku has joined forces with Sony to provide the Boku Payments Platform, a carrier-based billing service, for the PS4 account wallets in Canada, Germany, the...

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PYMNTS Talks Back: What Apple Did And Didn’t Say at the WWDC, Why SMBs May Be Dumping EMV … and more
PYMNTS Talks Back: What Apple Did And Didn’t Say at the WWDC, Why SMBs May...
June 07, 2014  |  Cool

Apple’s WWDC showing sort of got PYMNTS people talking about Karen Webster’s piece on Apple’s potential mobile payments ambitions. So did reports that small merchants...

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EMV Or Mobile: It’s a Risk Vs. Rewards Choice
EMV Or Mobile: It’s a Risk Vs. Rewards Choice
June 06, 2014  |  Hmmm

As merchants consider their options leading up to next year’s EMV liability-shift deadline, they are faced with the choice of upgrading their POS equipment, or...

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Square Plans to Enhance its Payments Platform
Square Plans to Enhance its Payments Platform
May 19, 2014  |  Hmmm

PYMNTS.com spoke with Square to find out if the recent announcements about Feedback and Square Order are signs for something bigger.

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