Cutting Through the Hype: The Truth about BLE Beacons
The industry is abuzz at present with many people talking about the endless opportunities and possibilities around BLE Beacons, and ...
Tag: payments
The Coming Econgularity: the Real Challenge to Civil Liberties
Econgularity – a shorthand for economic singularity -- is an ugly word I created to describe an unfortunately approaching moment ...
Despite the Spin, Facebook Payments Seem to Have Stalled
Photo: sursad It's all rosy at Facebook, except when it comes to payments. Payments revenue has all but stalled at ...
Visa Trumps Square on Starbucks Tweet-a-Coffee Deal
Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz signing the Square-Starbucks agreement, August 2012. Starbucks yesterday unveiled a Tweet-a-Coffee program with Visa -- ...
Industry Lacks Clear Vision for the Future of Payments
My fellow Americans, the state of our payments is... a mess. A panel discussion on future challenges in payments the ...
PayPal Ups User Count to 137 Million
PayPal stole the spotlight from parent company eBay Inc. today. Within eBay's earnings report was the announcement of 137 million PayPal ...
A Bad Week for Square?
Was this a really bad week for Square? Square's announcement that it had partnered with Intuit to share data between ...
‘Electronic Checks’ Give Paper Payments New Life
The check is not dead. Far from it, in fact. The venerable little slip of paper has been given new ...
Delta’s New In-Air Payments System Fails to Delight Flight Attendants
Last month, Delta Air Lines gave more than 19,000 of its flight attendants Nokia Lumia 820s for in-air payments. Some ...
VIDEO: VeriFone is Finally Using the Point Technology It Bought in 2011
VeriFone introduced a "payment as a service" solution, VeriFone Point, yesterday. The company acquired the Sweden-based payment processor Point in November 2011 for ...
