Mobile Payments
May 29, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Jason Goldberger, Target.com and mobile president, discusses the next phase of e-commerce and Target's big bet on supply chain infrastructure.
May 28, 2015 at 3:04 pm
The battle for mobile software dominance revolves around two companies: Apple and Google. Now both giants are also going head-to-head in mobile payments as they prepare to push deeper into digital wallets. Google is set to unveil plans at its annual developer conference today for an overhaul of its mobile payment products, according to three…
May 13, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Wal-Mart and a host of other retailers are trying to make inroads in the mobile payments marketplace … and they're failing. One of the most interesting, least talked about wars in technology is turning into a rout. Ever since Apple launched Apple Pay last year, the iPhone maker has been waging battle against an unexpected…
May 4, 2015 at 2:00 am
A panel of retail and mobile experts will discuss how to determine the best mobile strategy for your brand.
May 1, 2015
A Sephora executive at the Mcommerce Summit: State of Mobile Commerce 2015, said Apple Pay is receiving a warm welcome from its customers who are early adopters, but mainstream shoppers will need both help from educated staff and an experimentation period to grow comfortable with the technology. A takeaway from the session, Sephora: Making Mobile Payments a Loyalty Strategy, was that awareness and education are crucial to spur adoption of Apple's mobile wallet, not just across Sephora's stores but throughout the commercial world.
April 28, 2015
Apple just revealed a huge boost for its mobile payment offerings from retailer Best Buy. On an earnings conference call late Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Best Buy would begin accepting payments via Apple Pay on Best Buy's iPhone app now, and in Best Buy's physical stores later in the year. Apple Pay, the service that lets folks pay for goods with the iPhone or the new Apple Watch, has struggled to add high-profile retailers since its launch in September with Whole Foods, McDonald's, Subway, Panera Bread and others.
April 10, 2015
Every morning, you check for three things before you leave the house: phone, wallet and keys. But what if you only needed to look for two or even one? The solution to this equation is the digital wallet, and tech giants such as Google, Apple and PayPal have already revolutionized the mobile payments space.
April 10, 2015
PayPal will be free to work with online retailers and marketplaces including Amazon.com and Alibaba following its split from eBay later this year, according to a new financial filing that details the separation between the e-commerce firm and
April 2, 2015
A recent study published by market research company Phoenix Marketing International found that 47 percent of all Apple Pay users shopping in a participating store weren't able to use Apple Pay to complete a transaction at least once. The finding reflects one of the biggest stumbling blocks that Apple Pay and its competitors face in trying to get people to adopt mobile payments — the fact that no payment platform can control the experience a customer has when they walk into a brick-and-mortar store. Phoenix surveyed 3,000 people about their smartphone shopping habits.
March 3, 2015
The world's biggest maker of Android phones launched a major challenge to Google Wallet on Sunday, saying it will soon launch a rival phone-based payment system. Samsung Pay will appear first in the summer in the U.S. — later in other markets — and will allow consumers to make tap-and-go payments with a smartphone. It's being introduced as Google is moving to strengthen its position in the mobile payments market to better compete with Apple Pay.
