Content about Mobile payment

May 7, 2013
Focus on: Mobility

After a successful pilot, Best Buy Canada is expanding its use of fully integrated, enterprise mobile point (mPOS) solutions on its selling floor. The new, tablet-based technology has improved customer service, including reducing checkout times, and staff productivity.

March 15, 2013
Mobile Payments

Consumer use of smartphones and tablets is helping to drive the growth of mobile transactions in retail. Chain Store Age spoke about the growing trend with Don Kingsborough, VP retail services, PayPal, which recorded $14 billion in mobile payments in 2012 and expects to exceed $20 billion this year. According to Kingsborough, PayPal is well-positioned to tap into mobile payment growth as it already has three key elements in place: a large consumer base (55 million-plus in the United States), a network of merchant partners and "ecosystem" partners.

March 7, 2013
SAP survey: Mobile payments need to be targeted at retail

More than half (53%) of industry leaders believe that improving customers’ retail experience is essential to creating a successful mobile payments scheme, according to a recent survey by SAP.

February 25, 2013
Visa in deal with ROAM to increase retailers’ acceptance of mobile payments

Visa Inc. has entered into an agreement with mobile commerce provider ROAM, an Ingenico company, to enable merchants of all sizes to accept electronic payments using mobile technology.

January 29, 2013
Survey: Google most likely to win mobile wallet war

Google is poised to win the “mobile wallet war” according to a survey of attendees at the National Retail Federation’s annual 2013 convention in New York.

January 15, 2013
NCR in deal with PayPal

NCR Corp. and PayPal, an eBay subsidiary, have entered into an agreement to integrate NCR's mobile solutions for hospitality and retail with PayPal's digital payment technology.

November 29, 2012
Kuapay launches mobile payment solution at KFC/Taco Bell locations

Mobile payment platform provider Kuapay said it has launched a new payment system at 14 KFC/Taco Bell restaurants in the Los Angeles area.

November 8, 2012
Starbucks goes live with Square Wallet mobile payment application

Starbucks Coffee Co. started will accepting Square’s mobile payment application, Square Wallet, in approximately 7,000 U.S. Starbucks stores.

October 12, 2012
Why Best Buy is Going Mobile

By Mark Williams, Best Buy

September 25, 2012
Finish Line teams with VeriFone for mobile payment options

VeriFone Systems said that The Finish Line is deploying VeriFone’s latest mobile checkout and multimedia-driven countertop payment solutions.

September 6, 2012
Dunkin Donuts, CorFire team toward virtual mobile payment

M-commerce provider CorFire said that it is providing virtual mobile payment capabilities to Dunkin' Donuts.

August 21, 2012
McDonald’s, PayPal testing mobile payments

McDonald’s Corp. is testing a mobile payments service with PayPal in 30 McDonald’s locations in France.

August 8, 2012
Starbucks teams with Square to accept mobile payments; invests $25 million in company

Mobile payments took another step forward with the announcement that Starbucks Coffee Co. has entered into a partnership with Square, a mobile-payment start-up.

July 10, 2012
Survey: Mobile payment use more doubles in a year

Mobile payments have more than doubled in popularity reaching over 33% of survey respondents, according to IDC Financial Insights’ eighth annual Consumer Payments Survey.

May 29, 2012
PayPal signs on 15 national retailers for its mobile payment service

PayPal has confirmed partnership with 15 national retailers, including J.C. Penney, American Eagle Outfitters, Toys “R” Us and Foot Locker, for its mobile wallet service.

May 11, 2012
Retailers Win With Mobile Payments

By Matthew Talbot, Sybase 365

April 26, 2012
NRF: FTC should move cautiously on mobile payments

The National Retail Federation urged the Federal Trade Commission to move cautiously in establishing regulations for mobile payments, and said any rules that are adopted should parallel those for the underlying form of payment and not be specific to the technology.

February 27, 2012
Report: Home Depot rolling out PayPal chainwide

The Home Depot is expanding its use of PayPal, the online payment service of eBay, from the 51 stores in the pilot program to all of the home improvement retailer’s stores, Dow Jones Newswire reported.

February 9, 2012
New POS Technology Available to Retailers in 2012

By Shannon Martin, shannon.martin@onlinemediapartner.com

There are a variety of new technologies that will become available throughout 2012 to small business owners looking for ways to process credit and debit cards. In the past, business have had to rely on costly terminals purchased from merchant account providers who charged not only for the equipment, but also for the processing of the cards used by a business’ customers.

February 9, 2012
Reports: Google plans to open first freestanding store

Multiple reports said that search giant Google plans to open its first stand-alone retail store, at its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

January 23, 2012
More details on Home Depot, PayPal deal

John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay, during a Jan. 18 earnings call expanded on the test of PayPal with retailer Home Depot.

January 9, 2012
Report: PayPal testing in-store payments at Home Depot

PayPal, which allows consumers to pay for goods online, is running a trial of in-store payments with Home Depot, Reuters reported. PayPay is a division of eBay Inc.

December 12, 2011
Don’t Let Credit Card Fraud Leave You With Only Coal in Your Stocking

By Greg Hammermaster, president, Sage Payment Solutions

December 6, 2011
Starbucks mobile transactions exceed 26 million in first year

Starbucks has racked up 26 million mobile transactions since it launched its mobile payment program in January.

October 3, 2011
Google opens Chrome Zone pop-up in London

In a partnership with the U.K.-based retailer PC World, Google has opened its first-ever physical retail space, a pop-up shop in London.

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