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Read More »Visa Is Making The E-Wallet Real
We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet, but the tech itself seems slow to arrive. Now one credit giant is changing all that. We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet , but the tech itself seems slow to arrive apart from one or two regional experiments, and the promise of more exciting tech in the future
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Read More »iFive: AT&T Confirms Late iPhone 5, Spotify Battles iTunes, U.S. DVD Sales Slide, ISIS Joins Credit Co.s, Airline Streams Vids
1. According to an AT&T insider , Apple has officially notified the huge U.S. cell phone carrier that there will be no iPhone update in June or July.
Read More »iFive: Sony Hackers Have Card Data, PayPal Buys Fig Card, Amazon Ditches S. Carolina, Square Secures Reader, Redbox Games Rental
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Read More »Microchip-Embedded Credit Cards Coming To America At Long Last
Two companies kick off a race to market with EMV chip cards, long a staple in Europe. But with NFC payments on the rise, this seems less like innovation and more a stopgap measure. American credit card companies may be taking a page from Europeans.
Read More »American Express Invests in PayFone, Powers Mobile Payments Plan
It was barely a month ago that American Express launched its futuristic mobile payments system Serve , and it's already moving to reinforce it by investing in a small firm
Read More »iFive: Twitter Kills QuickBar, Skype’s Mac App Comp., Samsung’s NFC Plans, Acer Wants to be Apple, Google’s Face Recognition
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Read More »American Express Launches "Serve" Digital Payments Platform, Paves Way for NFC
American Express is joining the ranks of old-school credit card companies that have realized they need to embrace the future of digital transactions. Its new Serve platform enables novel digital payments that threaten PayPal and pave the way for NFC
Read More »Could You Survive Without Mobile Apps?
What if there wasn't a [mobile] app for that? More than a third of small businesses say they couldn't survive, or that it would be a challenge to survive, without mobile apps, says a new survey. OK, so it was AT&T that conducted the survey —not exactly a disinterested party
Read More »Why PayPal Doesn’t Care About NFC
Some of SXSW's hottest startups say they're here to help small businesses compete, but eBay execs say those merchants want something else entirely. You'd think that wave-and-pay smartphone technology would be top priority for PayPal, one of the biggest competitors in the mobile payments space. But while big retailers love NFC for its hyper-targeted marketing potential , small businesses that run on payment services like PayPal may actually be interested in mobile payments for something far humbler: customer loyalty
Read More »NFC’s Great, but Rumors of Credit Cards’ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
The fantasy of buying a Slurpee with nothing more than a dramatic wave of your iPhone 5 seems to be coming true. But like hydrogen cars and hoverboards, electronic wallet technology has a long, long way to go
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