- Hyundai Plans In-Vehicle Payment System
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The system will include brands like ParkWhiz, Chargehub and Domino's, with others to be added via the Xevo Market. ...
- Tim Cook Defends App Store Policies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 24, 2021
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday told a federal judge that the company's control over apps allowed on the platform benefits consumers as well as developers. ...
- Kochava Acquires DigiCenter And Adds Emails To Its Collective
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Kochava helps firms with attribution and measurement. It now has 1 billion emails in its mobile data Collective. ...
- Sale Of Verizon Media, Including Yahoo, To Apollo Global Could Be Announced Monday: Report
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, May 2, 2021
Private equity group Apollo Global Management is close to acquiring Yahoo and other Verizon Communications media assets from Verizon, according to the "Financial Times," citing people familiar with the situatio ...
- FlexEngage And Movable Ink Partner On Putting Personalized Content Into E-Receipts
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
The firms hope to provide digital content to email audiences. Vitamin Shoppe offers a use-case. ...
- Payment Fraud Rose In 2020, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 19, 2021
Accertify finds that 38% of merchants saw an increase in payment fraud last year. ...
- PayPal Transforms From Payment System To Marketing Powerhouse
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 22, 2021
PayPal continues to transform from an electronic payment system to a marketing powerhouse with several acquisitions and changes in customer behavior, accelerated by COVID-19. ...
- EU Antitrust Regulators Approve Google's Purchase Of Fitbit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 17, 2020
"We can approve the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google because the commitments will ensure that the market for wearables and the nascent digital health space will remain open a ...
- InComm And Mastercard Team Up To Offer Digital Gift Cards
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, November 19, 2020
Gift-givers can use mobile wallets to pay for the cards, while recipients can utilize Click-to-Pay to order their gifts. ...
- Salesforce Debuts CDP And Payment Service In Digital 360 Launch
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Digital 360 combines new and existing tools being offered by Salesforce. ...
- Google's Waze Fuel Payment System Integrates With ExxonMobil, Shell
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Waze already helps drivers find nearby gas stations and now will prompt payment of fuel through contactless payments at participating Exxon, Mobil, and Shell stations. ...
- PayPal Data Shows Back-To-School Shopping Upside Down
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 7, 2020
PayPal Checkout transactions grew nearly 40% year-over-year in Q2 2020, the company reported during an earnings call in late July. Total payment volume grew at 30%, with a record $2 ...
- Connected TV Grabs The Moment
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
But don't forget about mobile video viewing. Many believe it hasn't reached the pinnacle of serving modern digital media consumers. ...
- Visa Identifies Behavioral Changes In Consumer Spending
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 1, 2020
As the cashless economy moved online in Q1, overall U.S. payments through Visa transactions fell 19%, debit fell 6% and credit fell 31% through April 28, 2020, as many expecte ...
- LaterPay Raises $10M In Funding, Plans Expansion
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Thursday, May 28, 2020
LaterPay's CEO stated the funds will make it "easier for creators and the platforms they use to natively integrate pricing and contribution tools around their content." ...
- Google Allowing Retailers to Link PayPal, Google Merchant Center Accounts
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Each payment through PayPal costs the retailer a service fee similar to one consumers must pay when they transfer funds. ...
- Raise Boosts Results With Personalization Effort
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Mobile payments firm Raise will work with Sailthru to personalize mobile, website and email. ...
- Publix, Walmart Lead Shoppers To Contact-Free Payments
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, April 6, 2020
It's been taking forever to move contactless or mobile payments to mass adoption, but COVID-19 may be changing that. ...
- Companies Team For QR Code Payments
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Thursday, March 26, 2020
FinTech and TrueLayer are partnering to make it possible for small businesses and freelancers to use instant payment QR codes. ...
- Mobile Payments Pushed To Avoid Touching Cash
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Thursday, March 19, 2020
In light of COVID-19, some retailers are encouraging customers to use mobile payments to avoid handling cash. ...
- Starbucks Tests Cryptocurrency Payments
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
The digital wallet company Bakkt had its payment technology integrated into the Starbucks mobile app. ...
- GasBuddy Has More Than One Data Surprise For Marketers
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 24, 2020
The Pay With GasBuddy platform closes the search-to-purchase loop. Currently, it runs a debit program, but expanding it to a credit card could provide brands with much more opt-in d ...
- Plaid Charges Visa $5.3B For Its APIs, Analytics
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Plaid is a San Francisco-based startup that lets people link their bank accounts to mobile apps such as Venmo, Acorns and Chime. ...
- Weyland Completes $25 Million Push Holdings Acquisition
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 9, 2020
Weyland expects Push will give it a beachhead in North America for its platform-as-a-service app tool for SMBs. ...
- Dave & Buster's Taps NFC For In-Store Customer Transactions
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, December 5, 2019
The app will allow customers at the company's entertainment and dining facilities to make contactless payments. ...
- Forecast: Mobile Point-Of-Sale Transactions To Reach $1.9 Trillion
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, December 3, 2019
This increase from $850 billion in 2019 is driven by service adoption from new business users, including pop-up stores, food trucks and street vendors. ...
- JET8 Makes Data The Currency In Social Media
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 18, 2019
JET8 plans to enter the U.S. after building a following in emerging markets, with its white-label branded social platform that lets users earn money for sharing their content. The mo ...
- Possible Apple Bundling May Be A Response To Slumping iPhone Sales
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, November 14, 2019
Apple is reportedly open to the idea of bundling News+, Apple TV+ and Apple Music. In part, the bundling may also be a response to Facebook's recent reentry in t ...
- Apple Pay Usage Forecast To Hit 30.3 Million Consumers In 2019
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, October 24, 2019
Apple Pay would represent a whopping 47.3% of proximity mobile payment users in the United States, per eMarketer. ...
- Venmo Privacy Settings Pose Risk To Users, Watchdogs Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are calling for the PayPal-owned payment platform to make transactions private by default, and to give users the option to keep their friend lis ...
