Wifi news and trends

What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments
Merchant Innovation // January 17, 2020

These days, it seems like you can hardly go a minute without hearing about the rise of 5G, the spread of facial recognition or how friction is being removed from all types of payment methods. But what you don’t hear about as often — at...

Amazon Buys eero For Smart Home Connectivity
Amazon Acquisitions // February 12, 2019

Amazon announced the acquisition of eero, the first mesh home WiFi system. Founded in San Francisco in 2014, eero’s systems blanket every room of a customer’s home using high-performing, reliable WiFi. For example, the eero WiFi System (1 eero + 2 eero Beacon), which retails for around $362...

What We Can Learn From The KRACK WiFi Loophole
Security & Fraud // November 02, 2017

Only you can prevent forest fires. And, as the KRACK WiFi vulnerability perhaps demonstrated, only you can prevent hackers from worming their way into your networks and devices, as even established security measures that are presumed to be stable may not be as secure as...

Pay By Sound: It’s Back!
Payment Methods // 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 is easier said than done, because it’s not like developing an app. It represents the...

Interviews & Exclusives
Where Big Tech Will And Won’t Spend In A COVID Recession

April 02, 2020
It is easy – and becoming easier by the day – to look at the business world and see trends indicating where the money isn’t flowing. Not to businesses, depending on the verticals. Not to the stock markets (depending on the day, of course).  Not to mortgages, if things hold up. And there’s another kind […]

What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

January 17, 2020
These days, it seems like you can hardly go a minute without hearing about the rise of 5G, the spread of facial recognition or how friction is being removed from...

Pay By Sound: It’s Back!

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...

Quick Reads
Amazon Buys eero For Smart Home Connectivity

February 12, 2019
Amazon announced the acquisition of eero, the first mesh home WiFi system. Founded in San Francisco in 2014, eero’s systems blanket every room of a customer’s home using high-performing, reliable WiFi. For example, the eero WiFi System (1 eero + 2 eero Beacon), which retails for around $362 on Amazon, is designed to replace the traditional WiFi router, […]

In-store Wi-Fi Boosts Customer Loyalty 28 Percent

January 22, 2015
Customers really do appreciate free Wi-Fi, it seems. A new study by IHL Group found that 28 percent of retailers who added in-store Wi-Fi said they got a boost in...