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In an effort to cement its ties with restaurants, Square Inc. announced Wednesday it is adding a pick-up feature to its Caviar meal-delivery service and has acquired the OrderAhead restaurant pick-up service. Both moves capitalize on the trend time-strapped consumers buying restaurant meals for consumption elsewhere, be it at home or …
March, 2017
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1 March
Why Retailer Pay is Essential for a Retailer App?
The great success of the Starbucks mobile app has demonstrated that consumers will use a mobile app if it delivers the right value. The capacity to pay with an app alone is not enough, and one of the ways that Starbucks motivates customers to pay with its app …
February, 2017
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28 February
Interac Fraud at Record Low and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• In separate blog posts, PayPal Holdings Inc. executive vice president Bill Ready and chief executive Dan Schulman reported the company has reached 200 million total consumer, merchant, and charity accounts. They also said the PayPal’s One Touch authentication technology has signed up 50 million consumers and more than 5 million merchant accounts, …
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28 February
COMMENTARY: How to Cure the ‘Hangover,’ Sell EMV, And Grow More Quickly
In the February, 2017, issue of Digital Transactions, Steve Mott argues that the U.S. EMV migration was a misguided, poorly planned, and poorly executed effort. In his article, “The Great EMV Hangover,” he considers the migration to be a failure, writing, “As 2016 wound to a close, nothing short of …
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27 February
COMMENTARY: How 5G Networks Will Remake Payments—And the World
In today’s 4G world, connected homes allow you to turn on lights, turn down thermostats, or activate sprinklers, all remotely. Wearables wake you up and tell you how long and how well you slept. Fingerprints, faces, even the rhythm of your heart are replacing passwords. There’s a lot happening on the connectivity …
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27 February
Mastercard Looks to Scale up Masterpass And Order-Ahead With an Oracle Tie-Up
Mastercard Inc. and Oracle Corp. announced Monday a collaboration that could dramatically expand the reach of Mastercard’s Masterpass digital-wallet technology, as well as the network’s tokenization capability. Masterpass will be embedded into Oracle’s POS systems for retail and hospitality merchants. The companies said Oracle will embed Masterpass in systems it …
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27 February
Rambus Debuts Unified M-Payments Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Rambus Inc. introduced its Rambus Unified Payment Platform, which it says will enable mobile-wallet users to pay with credit, points, and coupons in a single transaction. • Payments provider Harbortouch Payments LLC announced a partnership with Strategic Funding Source, a merchant cash-advance provider. • Square Inc. will pay $54.8 million to Starbucks Corp. to cancel …
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27 February
Small Merchants’ EMV Upgrade Delays Continue To Crimp Terminal Maker Ingenico
The former EMV prom that’s turned into the date from hell for some payments-industry vendors continued for point-of-sale terminal maker and e-commerce services provider Ingenico Group SA in the fourth quarter. The France-based firm that has major operations in Canada and the United States reported last week that its North …
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27 February
Activists Pressure Shopify To Drop Breitbart News as an E-Commerce Client
E-commerce platform provider Shopify Inc. is facing pressure to cut ties with a controversial client, the Breitbart alt-right online news site. On Thursday, activist groups plan to present a petition with 140,000 signatures at Shopify’s Ottawa, Ontario, headquarters, demanding that the processor cut off Breitbart as a client. The news …
