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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Payments Orchestration Helps Digital Goods Companies Make The Instant Sale
Payments Orchestration Helps Digital Goods Companies Make The Instant Sale
December 23, 2020  |  Retail

If there’s one universal truth amid the pandemic, it’s that we’re all binge watchers now. We’re all consumers of media, of content, of subscriptions —...

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PayPal Waives Check Cashing Fees For Stimulus Checks
PayPal Waives Check Cashing Fees For Stimulus Checks
December 22, 2020  |  Disbursements

PayPal will allow customers to cash their next stimulus checks free of charge, according to a press release. The payments giant said in the release...

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Five Ways The Connected Economy And Big Tech Helped U.S. GDP Recover
Five Ways The Connected Economy And Big Tech Helped U.S. GDP Recover
December 22, 2020  |  Economy

Commerce Department figures out Tuesday (Dec. 22) showed that the U.S. economy snapped back at a 33.4 percent annual rate during the third quarter following the...

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Putting Subscription Commerce’s ‘Get, Keep and Grow’ Playbook To Work
Putting Subscription Commerce’s ‘Get, Keep and Grow’ Playbook To Work
December 22, 2020  |  Subscription Commerce

In the beginning, there were bundles. Then came unbundling, followed not long after by the introduction of “rundles,” or recurring revenue bundles. And now, thanks to a...

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Consumers Can Now Pay With SNAP EBT For H-E-B Curbside, Home Delivery
Consumers Can Now Pay With SNAP EBT For H-E-B Curbside, Home Delivery
December 22, 2020  |  Retail

Texas-based supermarket chain H-E-B will now let customers pay for groceries for curbside or home delivery using SNAP benefits online or via a mobile phone,...

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Russian Regulator Alleges Booking.com Broke Anti-Monopoly Law
Russian Regulator Alleges Booking.com Broke Anti-Monopoly Law
December 22, 2020  |  International

Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has accused Booking.com of reportedly violating antitrust laws in the country and abusing a dominant market position, according to Reuters...

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Lease-To-Own Business Fueled By Acima Acquisition; Company Boasts Triple-Digit Growth
Lease-To-Own Business Fueled By Acima Acquisition; Company Boasts Triple-Digit Growth
December 21, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Rent-A-Center, the largest provider of lease-to-own purchase plans in the U.S. said Monday (Dec. 21) that its acquisition of a virtual provider of similar plans...

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?
Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?
December 21, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

You can see it in the quarterly earnings reports this year of just about every publicly traded company and among the list of companies that...

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ACAMS: Biden Administration Faces Challenges On AML And Cybercrime
ACAMS: Biden Administration Faces Challenges On AML And Cybercrime
December 21, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

The incoming Biden Administration has got its work cut out for it on a number of fronts. Job No. 1 is tackling a public-health crisis the...

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