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As Google Readies New Wallet Version, Sprint Gears Up with ‘Open’ Approach
By: Dan Balaban As Google readies the launch of the next version of its wallet, expected to feature the addition of a physical payment card, other mobile-commerce players, including Google Wallet...
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U.S. Merchant Group MCX to Launch with Bar-Code, Cloud Technologies; Not NFC...
By: Dan Balaban The MCX consortium, the group of major U.S. merchants planning to roll out their own mobile wallet, will primarily use bar codes and cloud-based technologies to start off with, not...
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U.S. Merchant Group MCX Names CEO as It Continues to Gear Up for...
By: Dan Balaban The MCX merchant consortium, which is gearing up to launch a mobile-wallet platform and bar-code based mobile-payment services in the U.S. has named the former head of mobile commerce...
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Analysis: Apple Pay U.S. Transactions Growing but Base ‘Very Small’; and...
By: Dan Balaban and Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Apple’s boast this week that its mobile payments service accounts for three out of four contactless payments in the U.S. says little...
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Exclusive: Why are Some of the Largest U.S. Merchants Balking at Supporting NFC?
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – While the base of contactless point-of-sale terminals in the U.S. has grown substantially over the past two and a half years, some of the country’s largest...
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Target Shuns NFC and Apple Pay as Expected with New Wallet; Service Features...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Target has added its long-anticipated 2-D bar code-based wallet to its mobile app, following rival Wal-Mart Stores in launching its own payments service...
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U.S. Merchant Apps Square Off Against NFC ‘Pays’ Wallets: The Retailer...
By: K.N. Smith NFC TIMES Exclusive – As more U.S. merchants launch their own payments apps, some seem positioned to offer serious competition to Apple Pay and the other NFC “Pays” wallets.Related...
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In-Depth: As U.S. Lags in Contactless Payments, are Issuers Ready to Roll Out...
Aug 1 2018 By: K.N. Smith NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Most issuers in the U.S. have so far held back from rolling out contactless or dual-interface cards, but merchant acceptance has been quietly...
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Another Major Holdout Among Major U.S. Merchants, Target, Agrees to Accept...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Acceptance of contactless and NFC payments in the U.S. has lagged behind many other developed markets for years, but that continues to change, with...
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In-Depth: More U.S. Issuers to Join Contactless Card Rollout; Adoption...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight– There is more evidence that U.S. banks will be moving a substantial portion of their card base to contactless over the next few years, as they reissue...
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