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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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…
Read MoreGoogle 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,…
Read MoreAmazon 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…
Read MoreLoopPay 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.…
Read MoreYou’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?…
Read MoreMove 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.…
Read MoreClinkle 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.…
Read MoreApple 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.…
Read MoreMCX 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.…
Read MorePayPal 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.…
Read MoreLoop’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.…
Read MoreSquare 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.…
Read MoreAre 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.…
Read MoreTesting 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.…
Read MoreUK 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.…
Read MoreWhat 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.…
Read MoreLifeLock 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…
Read MoreMeet 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.…
Read MoreFormer 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.…
Read MoreLoop’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.…
Read MoreWith 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.…
Read MoreClinkle 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.…
Read MoreBad 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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