- 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 ...
- Email The Basis Of Paperless B2B Payment Service
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, August 15, 2019
Bento Pay is designed to disrupt a field that has long relied on paper checks. ...
- Facebook Breaks The Bank
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, June 24, 2019
Here comes Libra -- a planned digital currency developed by Facebook, designed to run on the Libra blockchain. But leaders in the crypto space are hardly cheering Facebook's arrival. ...
- Why Aren't We Cashless Yet?
MAD, Katherine Schilling - Monday, May 6, 2019
We've all heard that mobile payments have been positioned as the fastest, most convenient way for consumers to pay. But in reality, that's not how consumers see it. ...
- JCPenney Halts Mobile Payments In Stores
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Retailer suspended mobile payments until it converts all store point-of-sale terminals to technology required by new credit card company rule. ...
- Restaurants Fear Future Mobile Disruption
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Consumers armed with mobile phones can check reviews in real time and be swayed to skip the restaurant they were heading to. ...
- Sony Launches Its Own Taxi-Hailing Mobile App
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, April 22, 2019
Sony and five taxi companies in Tokyo have created a taxi-hailing service with automatic payments, much like the systems of Uber and Lyft. ...
- Despite Mobile Payments, Cash Remains King
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, April 22, 2019
Nearly half (45%) of smartphone owners say there is no reason to use mobile payments, according to a new study. ...
- Google Pay Users Can Retrieve Loyalty Cards And Tickets From Gmail
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Google Pay users can pull loyalty cards, movie tickets, boarding passes and offers from their Gmail inbox. Google promises users "won't get more offers." ...
