Articles tagged with: credit cards
It will take at least 8 years to see mobile payments replacing cash.
This is one of the results of a survey of technology experts and stakeholders, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center.
Interest article on how your social network can potentially protect your credit card. As the author says, it is much harder to fake a social network identity than it is to fake ownership of a number in a database somewhere.
In recent months, a few new mobile payment solutions have launched to allow for accepting credit card payments via mobile devices — a small business owner’s best friend. The three services profiled here — Square, Intuit GoPayment and PAYware Mobile — hail from experienced entrepreneurs and seasoned payment veterans, and each offers a slight variation on the same idea that you can accept payments from anyone, everywhere.
Yesterday Facebook disclosed another component of the company’s payment strategy: a partnership with PayPal.
In my view this a wise choice because building a world class payment solution from scratch would have been very challenging and a competition with such a big player (PayPal has now more than 81 million accounts) very stiff.
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