Digital, Mobile Money Services Are Hot in Texas for SXSW
Of the endless array of vendors spread about the expansive gathering of presenters and companies at SXSW 2015, there’s one service category that’s hotter than ever this year. We’re talking about mobile...
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Facebook Adds Free Money Transfer Option and Opens Mobile Commerce Potential
Facebook is adding a new feature to its messaging component that will let users send money to their Facebook Messenger friends free of charge. (It’s exactly like Snapchat’s Snapcash feature.) To send...
View ArticleSquare Opens Its Super Easy Way to Transfer Cash Money to Businesses
Square’s peer-to-peer money transferring feature is now open for business to utilize. Square is expanding its Cash product to allow businesses to accept payments. In addition, Square is announcing a...
View ArticleFacebook Keeps Ramping Up Its Messenger App
Facebook’s unbundled Messenger app has suddenly become an attention whore. Last week the social network announce a free peer-to-peer money transfer option and at the F8 Developer this week, Zuckerberg...
View ArticleAlibaba and Xiaomi Partner for Wearable Payments
Xiaomi’s Mi Band wearable will connect with Alibaba’s Alipay Wallet app to move both companies into the wearable payment sector. Ant Financial, the finance arm of Alibaba Group, and smartphone...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Might Emerge As The Biggest Internet of Things Company
Just within a few years of its existence, Facebook has achieved a cult following. From teenagers to professionals to senior citizens, everyone has an account with the world’s most powerful social media...
View ArticleVenmo Taps Millennials with Mobile Ad for Pacquiao-Mayweather Fight Night
Venmo wants millennials to split the cost of watching the epic fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. this weekend. Venmo is growing up: In a first for the company, the mobile-payment...
View ArticleStarbucks Attack Shows Hackers Are Finding Easy Money on Mobile
This week, the media has brought to light a major issue with the Starbucks application after a number of customers had their Starbucks Payment App accounts broken into and money stolen directly from...
View ArticleApple’s iOS 9 and App Updates from WWDC
The WWDC conference on Monday kicked off with Apple’s software announcements and the media’s live-blog extravaganza. Amongst the announcements of Apple Music and the new “OS X El Capitan” was the...
View ArticleRite Aid Stores to accept mobile payments, starting August 15
As of Tuesday, Rite Aid revealed nearly 4,600 locations nationwide would be hopping on the mobile payment bandwagon. That’s right, starting August 15th Rite Aid customers will now be able to purchase...
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