Feb 26
A Dutch start-up wants to make Bitcoin payments as easy as nodding your head, with EAZE revealing “Nod to Pay” using Google Glass, the virtual currency, and QR codes. Triggered … Continue reading
Feb 19
Mobile payments provider Square has launched a charitable version of its dongle to help AIDS research, with the SQUA(RED) Reader coming in bright red as its name suggests. Offered as … Continue reading
Feb 19
Amazon has opened up its virtual currency, Amazon Coins, for use across all Android devices, having originally limited it to its own Kindle Fire tablets. The digital cash, launched back … Continue reading
Feb 13
Square Cash has added a payment request option, allowing users to prompt a virtual cash collection simply by sending an email. Square launched Square Cash in October last year, as … Continue reading
Jan 30
There are many people out there that use PayPal that have been hoping for a competing service to come to market for a long time to dethrone eBay’s behemoth. PayPal … Continue reading
Jan 25
The Wall Street Journal is hearing rumors that Apple wants to expand its mobile payment capabilities beyond iTunes purchases, moving into the space dominated by names like Square
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Jan 22
It seems almost ridiculous that people have to pay others just to use their own money, but that is how the world currently turns. T-Mobile, however, is of a different … Continue reading
Dec 16
A couple of Italian newspapers are reporting that Amazon acquired a mobile payment startup, Gopago, something reportedly taking place amidst work on an “ambitious project”. What this project is wasn’t detailed, but it reportedly is the basis for Amazon’s interest in Gopago — namely, in the startup’s technology. Amazon and Gopago haven’t announced the business […]
Dec 09
Mobile payments provider Square has updated its Square Reader dongle, slimming the card-swipe attachment by 45-percent, and supposedly improving performance to increase the chance of a successful scan first time. The new reader, which will be offered free to businesses using Square to process their credit and debit card transactions, makes use of a custom-designed […]
Nov 22
Google Wallet lets you capture credit card info with your smartphone camera
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The contents of your wallet are under attack. Earlier this month Coin swept in threatening to eliminate the need for all of your beloved non-cash payment methods and now Google Wallet is making it even easier to capture your plastic with its latest Android update. Along with the introduction of its very own physical debit cards, Google added the ability to upload your debit and credit cards to Wallet by simply snapping a picture with your smartphone — similar to the recent addition to the Dropbox Android app. Instead of entering your card numbers manually (such a drag, we know), those users who see a camera icon in the “card number” field of the Wallet mobile app, can capture both the card number and expiration date with a photograph.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Google
Via: Pocket-lint
Source: Google Play
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