Shopkick, a mobile app that provides deals and rewards for shoppers in real time will be one of the first to utilize Apple’s new iBeacon technology.
In a bid to expand the feature set of Google’s Wallet offering, the company has released a physical debit card linked to its users’ Google Wallet accounts.
Bitcoin evangelists, leaders, and diehards went to Washington D.C. this week to face the Senate firing squads.
It’s been a crazy ride for bitcoin, with the price per coin skyrocketing up to $900 and settling back down to over $600 on most exchanges (which is still an astronomical gain of over 400% since September).
Utilizing the iBeacon’s BLE technology, Apple stores will be able to track customers’ locations within their stores with extreme precision, displaying pricing, specs, and promotional information relevant to the items a customer is near.
Isis, the mobile wallet initiative that has the backing of AT&T; Mobility, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless, released today on the Google Play store. To use Isis, you need to be a subscriber to one of these three carriers, download the Isis app on an NFC enabled phone, and also install a SIM card with a secure element (some carriers make you pay for the SIM).
Bill.com is facing rapid growth in the banking and business sector as it’s just secured a lucrative funding round. The platform, specializing in cash flow management, payables and receivables just closed a $38 million funding round led by Scale Partner Ventures.
By February 1st, customers of the payment processor and dongle purveyor, Square, will find a shakeup in their payment plan offerings.
Following the steps of Twitter's IPO, Jack Dorsey's Square may target an IPO sometime in 2014.
FICO, best known for providing analytics and credit card scores here in the US, has partnered with ValidSoft to provide new security measures in the mobile and card payment space.
