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Kevin Fitchard Mar 2, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- More tools for merchants

PayPal acquires Paydiant, puts NFC into its Here readers

PayPal is buying Paydiant, a startup that provides the mobile payments and loyalty technology used by many big-name retailers use in their…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Mar 1, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- We got payment options

Samsung Pay has all the tools it needs to surpass Apple Pay

A lot of the features in the new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, like curved edges and glass-and-metal design, are examples of…

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Apple, Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 23, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The enemy of my enemy...

Google buys Softcard, teams up with carriers on mobile payments

Google and the mobile carriers have long been at odds over mobile payments, but faced with the runaway success of Apple Pay,…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jan 21, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Diapers, wallets, what's next?

Amazon closes out its mobile wallet trial after 6 months

It looks like Amazon’s diapers weren’t the only product the e-commerce giant retired Wednesday. The company has shut down its mobile wallet…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Nov 3, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

LoopPay starts selling a programmable credit card sleeve for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

LoopPay has an alternate mobile payments system for the new iPhones that relies on a magnetic-field generating smartphone case instead of NFC. Why use LoopPay over Apple Pay? It works in a lot more places.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

You’re either in or you’re out of MCX’s mobile payments club. Here’s why retailers are staying in

MCX can't have members break ranks and support Apple Pay or Google Wallet. Its own forthcoming app CurrentC will challenge both the mobile and finance industries, so it needs solidarity among its retail members. Can it achieve that?…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 7, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Move over, Coin: Plastc is making a programmable credit card that moves beyond the swipe

Plastc is a new entrant to the universal credit card space, but unlike the others it supports chip and PIN transaction technologies from the get-go.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Sep 23, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Clinkle finally launches its payments service (but not the one originally promised)

Clinkle promised a digital wallet. Instead it delivered a piece of plastic. It's debit card will be integrated into a new smartphone rewards networks, but it's a far cry from the mobile payments technology it hyped.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Sep 9, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Apple Pay delivers a double whammy, bridging in-store and online mobile payments

Apple's new mobile wallet won't just support contactless payments at the register. It will broker online and in-app payments on your smartphone.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Sep 3, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

MCX launches CurrentC, a mobile wallet for Walmart, Best Buy and other retailers

MCX's long-awaited mobile wallet is now in a few pilot programs, but starting in 2015, it will become available to consumers at some of the biggest retail and restaurant chains in the country.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Aug 5, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

PayPal partner MyCheck brings its restaurant bill payment app to SF and Austin

MyCheck is expanding beyond NYC into more restaurants and it's taking its partnership with PayPal along for the ride. Diners can view, split and pay their bills from the PayPal app.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jun 24, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Loop’s programmable credit card is now available in an iPhone case

Loop's ChargeCase fits over an iPhone 5 or 5s but otherwise works exactly like it's fob. You press a button and the case emits a magnetic field that emulates the data stripe on your credit card.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard May 12, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Square retools consumer mobile payments, replacing Wallet with a new app called Order

Wallet wasn't the hit Square was expecting, as consumers found little reason to abandon their credit cards. But a new Square app rolling out in NYC and SF refocuses Square's digital wallet on order-ahead transactions.…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Mar 13, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Are the wheels coming off of mobile payments startup Clinkle?

After grabbing loads of attention with a $25 million seed round and several high-profile hires, Clinkle is now seeing those new hires depart, starting with COO Barry McCarthy and its latest recruit, design guru Josh Brewer.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 19, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Testing out Loop’s programmable credit card

Mobile wallet startup Loop has launched its iPhone app and is selling its credit-card emulating fob and iPhone case on its websites. I gave a Loop a spin this week, and it works as advertised.…

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Mobile
David Meyer Feb 5, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

UK carrier joint venture Weve partners with MasterCard to simplify mobile payments rollout

The deal should make it easier for shops to accept contactless payments from the handsets of Vodafone, EE and O2 customers.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Jan 10, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

What does the closure of O2 Wallet say about the future of mobile payments?

British carrier O2 has axed its mobile wallet service less than two years in. The firm has suggested this has to do with newer initiatives, but Juniper Research analyst Windsor Holden reckons there's a business model problem.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Dec 12, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

LifeLock buys mobile wallet Lemon for $42.6M

Consumer identity theft protection LifeLock(s lock) is already securing the cards in your wallet. Now it wants to provide a digital version…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Nov 14, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Meet Coin, a startup creating a universal credit card

Coin isn't trying to replace the physical wallet with a digital one. Instead it's trying to reduce all of the credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards that clutter up our wallets to a single piece of plastic.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 22, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Former Netflix CFO joins mobile payments startup Clinkle

Clinkle claims it will invigorate the lackluster mobile payments market, though it still won't tell us how. Former Netflix finance honcho Barry McCarthy, however, is confident enough in Clinkle's plan to take over the COO role.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 8, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Loop’s interesting twist on the mobile wallet

A Boston startup is launching yet another in-store smartphone payments app. But Loop believes it has edge. Instead of building a transaction network its using its magnetic field technology to emulate the plastic in your wallet.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 8, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

With Payment Code, PayPal believes it’s cracked the mobile payments enigma

PayPal's new mobile payments service will use QR codes and PIN numbers to verify in-store smartphone transactions over merchants' existing point-of-sale equipment. It's partnering with Discover, giving it a potential pool of 7 million stores.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Sep 26, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Clinkle becomes a tech celebrity magnet, landing Richard Branson as an investor

Though we may know little about mysterious mobile payments startup Clinkle, investors given a peek into its inner workings are seeing a lot to like. Sir Richard Branson has joined an already impressive group of backers.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Sep 18, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bad news for Isis: Capital One pulls out of mobile payments trial

Capital One says it has the data it needs and is withdrawing from Isis, the mobile carriers' NFC-based mobile payments effort. If banks are losing faith in Isis, that's a bad sign for its future prospects.…

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Mobile, Technology

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