Google Wants to Let Us Say: 'The Check Is in the Email'
If you use Google Wallet, you'll soon be able to send people money using Gmail, attaching a dollar amount to a message just as you might a photo or a PDF.
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Google Wallet's Latest Innovation: A Plastic Mobile Wallet Card
In what at first glance seems like a step backward in the mobile payment space, Google Wallet is close to launching a physical plastic card. So much for all the oracles predicting the imminent fall of cash and plastic.
4 Reasons the Mobile Wallet Revolution Isn't Going Anywhere
Read the tech news these days, and you could be forgiven for thinking that folding cash and credit cards will soon be extinct, replaced by digital wallets in our smartphones. But the reality hasn't lived up to the hype, and a growing chorus of experts say it probably never will.
A Digital Wallet for the Unbanked Puts Mobile Finance in Reach
Mobile wallets are growing rapidly in popularity, but to use one, you've had to have a bank account or credit card. Soon, though, even the unbanked will have access to mobile payment technology, thanks to the new FlipMoney app from PreCash.
What the iPhone 5 Won't Be: Your Wave-to-Pay Mobile Wallet
Apple's iPhone 5 added many new features, but one highly-anticipated improvement was left out: the near-field communications chip that would allow you to make purchases with a wave of the smartphone, using your built-in mobile wallet.
Moving to Mobile Payment: Put the Right App in Your Digital Wallet
Lately, it seems like you can't go a week without hearing about how some new mobile payment platform is poised to revolutionize how you spend money: Apps like Square, PayPal's Zong and Google Wallet, to name just a few. We run done the options so you can pick the right for you.
Walmart-Backed MCX Aims to Dominate Mobile Payments
Will a new mobile payment system backed by the nation's biggest stores render Google Wallet obsolete? The newly formed Merchant Customer Exchange network hopes so.
Coffee Gets Square: Starbucks Switches to Mobile Pay Start-up
Starbucks plans to switch its processing of debit and credit card payments to mobile payments start-up Square, the two companies said Tuesday, in a deal will help establish two-year-old Square as a bona fide player in the industry.
Your Smartphone as Your Wallet: 3 Companies That Will Cash In
The smartphone revolution is well under way, and its latest advances could eventually let it replace your wallet. But the adoption of these new technologies can do more than reshape how you pay for purchases -- it can also pay off for your portfolio.
Why Smartphone Banking Is Safer Than Using Your PC
It's easy to feel like accessing your bank accounts via a smartphone must be risky. It could be stolen! Or hacked! But IT security experts say mobile banking is actually more secure than online banking from your computer.
App Makes Money Between Friends Issues Less Painful, More Social
When money and friendship mix, the results can get awkward: You front a friend some cash, and then what? Venmo, an app that helps you exchange money through mobile devices, is designed to remove that awkwardness and replace it with something social, and even fun.
What's Your Payment Personality? American Express Can Tell You
Are you a conservative, pays-with-cash sort of consumer or a smartphone-wielding early adopter? As it turns out, what's in your wallet may say more about you than you think.
Mobile Payment's Sticky Side: The Hidden Cost of Ultra-Easy Buying
What could be easier than paying for something with a wave of your phone? Not much. But there are prices to be paid for the frictionless ease of mobile payments, and they aren't all obvious.
A New Deal: Could PayPal Out-Coupon Groupon?
There's a new daily deals player, and it's a company that's near and dear to your virtual pocketbook. And if you think the online coupons sector is too saturated for a fresh entry to make a dent, you're ignoring a few important things about PayPal.
Visa Will See a Big Boost From Mobile Transaction Growth
The volume of card purchases made on Visa branded products globally has risen from around $2.1 trillion in 2006 to $3.1 trillion in 2010, and with strong first-quarter earnings, further growth in payment volume, and a strong foothold in the mobile transaction business, Trefis expects healthy growth ahead.