Archives for January, 2014
Some employers might think that setting limitations on things like mobile devices and Internet access is the answer to get
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Small Business Improvement, Smartphone Tagged with: boost productivity, communications, employee productivity, freedom and flexibility, human resources, implement, internet access, leadership, Mobile Devices
More than 60 percent of online shoppers returned or exchanged at least one item. About 95 percent of customers will go
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Credit card Processing, e-commerce & m-commerce, Electronic Payments, Gift & Loyalty Card Processing, Internet Payment Gateway, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: Amazon, ecommerce, gift recipients, marketplace, online merchant, online retailers, online sellers, online shoppers, return or exchange, returns and exchanges, self-service
Ecommerce and mobile-based e-commerce have grown significantly this year. Cyber Monday ecommerce sales, as an example, reached $1.735 billion originating
Posted in Credit card Processing, e-commerce & m-commerce, Electronic Payments, Internet Payment Gateway, Mobile Payments, Mobile Point of Sale, Smartphone, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: adwords, Amazon, big data, big information, brick and mortar, cross channel, cyber, drop shipping, e-commerce, ecommerce, Facebook, internet retailers, laptop devices, Mobile Devices, mobile friendly payment options, mobile optimization, mobile-based site, on-site, online, online shoppers, online store, onsite, personalization, retailers marketing, retailers online, shopping experience, smartphone, Smartphones, tablet, tablets
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will now offer the embedded payments service to customers that use the Samsung Galaxy S4
Posted in Electronic Payments, Financial Services, Mobile Payments, Mobile Point of Sale, Near Field Communication, Smartphone, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: commonwealth, devices, Digital wallets, embedded payments, make payments, MasterCard, merchant, mobile banking app, Mobile Payments, nfc-enabled phones, paypass, Samsung, shop and pay
A “cryptocurrency” is a peer-to-peer, decentralized, digital currency. Cryptocurrencies offer the potential for merchants to one day break the stranglehold
Posted in e-commerce & m-commerce, Electronic Payments, Financial Services, Internet Payment Gateway, Mobile Payments, Near Field Communication Tagged with: asic mining, bitcoin, credit card processing, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptographic security, decentralized, gpu mining, hashing algorithm, make and receive payments, merchant account, nfc technology, online commerce, payment amount, peer-to-peer, process transactions, QR code, wallet application
Myths about seniors abound. Among them are that most seniors are poor, they don’t shop online, and they only buy
Posted in e-commerce & m-commerce, Electronic Payments, Financial Services, Internet Payment Gateway Tagged with: bargains, ecommerce, electronic devices, email, financial services, Merchant's, online businesses, online buying, shop online, shopped online, spend money online
Most of the world has already migrated to EMV chip technology. EMV, as commentators have noted, affects not only hardware
Posted in Credit card Processing, Credit Card Security, EMV EuroPay MasterCard Visa, Mobile Payments, Mobile Point of Sale, Near Field Communication, Point of Sale, Smartphone Tagged with: card, card fraud, card payment system, chip, contactless emv, counterfeit, couponing, EMV, interoperability, magnetic stripe, Merchant's, mobile, nfc, payment methods, POS terminals, secure, Security, technology, transactions, transition, travelers
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group plans to use voice biometrics for authorizing large-value transfers to external bank accounts via
Posted in Credit card Processing, Credit Card Security, Mobile Payments, Smartphone Tagged with: authenticating, authorize, authorizing, biometrics, digital, mobile banking, Mobile Payments, mobile transactions, payments, personalization, smartphone app, transactions
Notably after the Japanese tsunami…the Hungarian Red Cross has used mobile technology to raise funds for disaster relief, but for
Posted in e-commerce & m-commerce, Internet Payment Gateway, Medical Healthcare, Smartphone Tagged with: account number, authorize, confirm transaction data, Facebook, m-payments, MasterCard, mobile app, mobile technology, personal data, phone, PIN, process, qr codes, Red Cross, scanner, secure, smartphone, social media, solution, successful transaction, transfer