The retail point-of-sale (POS) terminal market is no stagnant business. While it is currently a $15 billion industry, Global Market Insights is expecting it to reach $45 billion by the year 2024. Consumers are increasingly using cashless forms of payment for everyday transactions. And some merchants are...
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year mark for any new product, it’s top of the S-curve or bust. Here’s a walk down S-curve memory lane, courtesy of a Harvard...
Australian-based Commonwealth Bank announced Wednesday (Feb. 21) that its customers would now be able to make contactless payments via Samsung Electronics’ mobile wallet, Samsung Pay. In a press release, Commonwealth Bank said customers with a Mastercard can load their credit or debit card details into its...
Google Pay doesn’t begin or end with a mobile app, but the next stage of its universal rollout does. Today (Feb. 20), the tech giant announced the launch of its new mobile app for viewing and managing payments across platforms, cards and other payment methods,...
September 04, 2017
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 now supported and South America being the only major exception (besides Antarctica, though we hear the tourism scene there is heating up, so who knows — it could be next!). […]
August 24, 2017
In late July, PayPal and Baidu captured the world’s attention when they inked a strategic partnership that gives Baidu’s 100 million or so mobile wallet users access to PayPal’s 17...
August 09, 2017
Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for it. But harnessing audio waves for payments purposes...
July 13, 2017
Over the last 18 months, India has moved full-speed ahead from a nearly entirely cash-based society to one with ambitions of being totally cashless. The most public — and most famous...
July 09, 2018
Google Pay is getting an overhaul with a new user design being launched on Monday (July 9), reported BGR. According to BGR, Google Pay is the new name for Android Pay, Google’s digital payment service. With the new interface, users of Google will be able to check out a Hub page to see the latest […]
February 22, 2018
Australian-based Commonwealth Bank announced Wednesday (Feb. 21) that its customers would now be able to make contactless payments via Samsung Electronics’ mobile wallet, Samsung Pay. In a press release, Commonwealth Bank...
January 09, 2018
Alphabet’s Google announced news on Monday (Jan. 8) that it is housing Android Pay and Google Wallet under one brand: Google Pay. In a blog post, Pali Bhat, VP of Product...
November 16, 2017
According to news from The Wall Street Journal, J.P. Morgan Chase (JPMC) is the latest big name with big mobile payments ambitions and bona fides to back them up — and has...
