Tag: E-payment & Security

March 1, 2024

eBay buyers and sellers raised nearly $162 million in 2023 for nonprofits around the world through the eBay for Charity program. That’s nearly flat from 2022 when the program helped raise $163 million – which had been a 12% increase […]

July 8, 2016

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s expansion of its mobile-payment system across the U.S. may meet resistance from shoppers with little incentive to whip out their phones at the register. “There’s got to be something in there that would get consumers to use […]

June 29, 2016

More smartphone users in Canada have plans to increase their mobile payment usage this year than last year, according to research breaking out intentions by demographic. Regardless of age or gender, mobile payments appear to be getting more popular. In […]

June 22, 2016

  Microsoft has announced a mobile payments app for Windows 10 Mobile, bringing the flailing operating system up to speed with iOS and Android. Announced alongside the rollout of Windows 10 Mobile Preview Build 14371, Microsoft Wallet is available to […]

June 14, 2016

MasterCard has announced a strategic partnership with Tesco Bank that will aim to enhance the mobile and digital payments options available to customers at the retailer, as well as identifying and delivering new safe and secure digital payment solutions for […]

May 25, 2016

Apple Pay was announced in the US in late 2014 and launched with quite a bit of fanfare in the UK in July 2015. Today, most of the big UK banks have committed to support Apple Pay, although not all […]

May 20, 2016

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced today that Samsung Pay is giving U.S. users another way to “slim down their physical wallets” with the support of membership features. Samsung Pay users now have “easy, direct access” to merchant membership and loyalty […]

May 11, 2016

You can use up to five different fingerprints with the Touch ID sensor that comes with certain iPhone and iPad models, so one of those fingers could be from a spouse. Apple’s support site does warn, “Each new print might […]

May 10, 2016

Image Credits: emailexperience.org Four years ago, The European Commission proposed a radical shake-up to the arcane data protection and privacy laws that were failing to protect the interests, rights and freedoms of millions of consumers in the EU that were […]

May 6, 2016

Many merchants and retail workers are watching their lives play in slow motion when they process credit cards. To combat fraudulent transactions, the retail industry is shifting away from the traditional magnetic stripe toward tiny computer chips embedded inside cards. […]

May 5, 2016

Passwords have long been the method of choice for authenticating users online. But we’re moving toward a world where consumers will no longer need handwritten lists to keep track of all their usernames and passwords from Netflix accounts to online […]

April 28, 2016

Wire, a minimalist messaging app created by old Skype team members, is rolling out encrypted file sharing to all its users. The update follows the app’s adoption of encrypted messaging; Wire was was the first major messaging platform to roll […]

April 20, 2016

Since it turned on the lights last fall, Samsung Pay has managed to reach more than 5 million users and $500+ million in transactions. That’s a pretty remarkable feat, considering that it’s only available on a few phones. For comparison, […]

April 11, 2016

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games are on the distant horizon, and the Japanese authorities want to make the process of getting into the country and buying stuff as easy as possible for visitors – by using their fingerprints […]

April 8, 2016

Image Credits: Engadget Phone and software makers, including Apple, Google and Samsung, are getting involved in mobile payments to make their products more useful and attractive to their owners. Behind all this is the belief that consumers will discover the […]

April 7, 2016

Most people say they care about their online security and privacy. Poll after poll confirm what one would expect: They don’t want their identities stolen, phones hacked, credit cards compromised or bank accounts drained. They don’t welcome government or anyone else conducting […]

March 29, 2016

The popular Facebook Messenger app could soon become far more than a chat client, with the social networking service apparently planning to offer in-store purchases through its mobile app, after the company signaled it could partner with Apple Pay for […]

March 24, 2016

According to people familiar with the matter, Apple has informed potential e-commerce partners that Apple Pay will soon support purchases place through the Web, providing a new path to payment for iPhone and iPad users, reports Re/code. When Apple Pay […]

March 23, 2016

Image Credits: PayPal Nearly three-quarters of mobile banking app users use a mobile payment app to pay a bill, according to February 2016 research. That’s about three times as many as use one to send money to a friend. S&P […]

March 21, 2016

College students use a variety of mobile payment methods, including PayPal and Apple Pay. According to December 2015 research, they use these methods because they are easy to set up and use. Sallie Mae and Ipsos surveyed 793 US internet […]