LG has finally launched its Android Pay rival after months of speculation, but the rollout is, shall we say, somewhat limited. Earlier this year Reuters reported the South Korean firm was gearing up to launch its LG Pay service in June. ...
Tags: LG Pay, Android Pay
General Motors (GM) and IBM have joined hands to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform. Starting in early 2017, OnStar is expected to give ...
Tags: GM, IBM, Driving Experience
Barclays has officially launched its answer to Android Pay via an upgrade to its Android app. The bank previously declined to join Google's NFC payment service, which launched in the UK this May, and has kept its own service fairly quiet ...
China-based smartphone vendors have been mostly inclined to adopt fingerprint recognition for their mid-range and high-end models and consequently they will ship an estimated 200-300 smartphones featuring fingerprint-recognizing functions ...
Visa has announced that it has extended its Visa Token Service available to the automotive industry for easy and secure mode of payment for car-based commerce. Visa today announced it was making the Visa Token Service available to auto ...
Experts and insiders say with the industry booming in China, the country's plan to modernize its financial services may have just entered a golden era. [Photo: nipic.com] Internet finance has become a hot topic at the ongoing World ...
Alipay, the online payment service run by Alibaba, is being launched in Europe as the e-commerce giant struck a deal with Wirecard, a German payment processing company, which will let merchants using Wirecard's point-of-sales terminal ...
Tags: Alipay, payment service
Only 27 percent of U.S. merchants will be EMV-ready by the October 1st liability shift, down from 34 percent estimated in March, according to a survey by the Strawhecker Group (TSG) released Thursday. By December 2015, 44 percent of ...
Huami Co Ltd expects sales of its Xiaomi Mi Bands will reach 10 million in the third quarter, making it the largest maker of wearable fitness devices in the world. Launched last year, the Mi Band monitors fitness levels and tracks sleep ...
Tags: Wearable Devices, Fitness Devices
The average customer satisfaction score for Amazon slipped five points to 83 to tie with QVC for the highest score among the top 100 e-commerce sites measured over the holidays, likely because of increased price competition, according to ...
Europe, the world’s third largest region by B2C e-commerce sales, shows wide diversity in terms of payment methods used in online shopping, according to a report by Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com. While ...
Tags: Payment Methods, E-Commerce, Apparel
Australia Post has launched a new service called ShopMate, just in time for Christmas and opening the door to US online stores for local shoppers, and no doubt driving to despair more Australian retailers. ShopMate is said to be “a ...
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BitPay, the world leader in business solutions for the bitcoin digital currency, announces a new pricing plan which offers basic payment processing free-of-charge, forever. With the new pricing plan, BitPay is lowering the barrier to entry ...
Tags: BitPay, Pricing Plan, Textile
The new "Latin America Online Payment Methods 2013 – Second Half 2013" by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com indicates that online payment continues its growth in the emerging markets of this dynamic region. ...
Tags: online payment, mobile phone, mobile payments, online shopping
Following a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, an analyst believes that we can expect to see an increase in the frequency of iPhone releases from 2014. In a note to investors sent out on Wednesday, Morgan Stanley ...