Tag: mobile payments

You are invited to Square's coming-of-age party! It's going to be held at a Starbucks near you. Bring your own phone, but you can leave your wallet at home....

Google Wallet's latest version looks very much like a payment service many of us have been using for more than a decade. Yes, I do mean PayPal....

Visa has inexplicably banned iZettle, a Sweden-based Square-lookalike, from processing Visa cards in three European countries, but not in others....

Its card reader is now so ubiquitous that it's hard to believe that Square only went live in October 2010; but the start-up fully dominates its niche....

In Kenya, where only 10% of consumers have bank accounts, M-Pesa offers a service that no one else provides. That is not the case in, say, India....