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mobile payments

Woman paying with mobile phone.

Why Banning Cashless Is Baseless

Delaying progress out of irrational fears will only hurt us in the end.
By Janson Prieb
WhatsApp Monetization

Will WhatsApp Be the Death of Venmo? How Facebook Plans to Monetize the Messaging Giant

Since plunking down $22 billion for the messaging app in 2014, Facebook has has yet to monetize the tool.
By Chris Roberts
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 16: A view of the Google Music Android with artwork during the launch of Google Music hosted by T-Mobile at Mr. Brainwash Studio on November 16, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

Google Pairs Facial Recognition With Location Tracking to Make Payments Quicker

Mountain View experiments with a new incentive for users to let the company track where they go.
By Brady Dale
Interest in Google Contributor perks back up now that adblocking has come to mobile Safari. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Is Google the Future of Banking?

By Sage Lazzaro

Give People Money Free: Dwolla Drops Its Transaction Fee

By Brady Dale
(Snap via Jack Smith IV)

Snapchat Might Start Transferring Money in Addition to Dick Picks

By Jack Smith IV

Best Tech Events This Week (AppHack, Refest Art+Tech Festival, Mobile Payments, NYC Gaming, UX for Internet of Things)

By Gary Sharma
Braintree owns Venmo.

Venmo Touch From Braintree Lets You Pay Across Multiple Apps Without Entering Your Credit Card

By Nitasha Tiku
This guy. (Photo: Screenrant)

Booting Up: Countdown to the Ashton Kutcher Jobs Film

By Jessica Roy
Mr. Taub and Mr. Schonfeld

Tech Insurgents 2012: Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld

By Jessica Roy
America runs on smartphones, more like. (Photo: flickr.com/robertbanh)

Dunkin Donuts Definitely Needed Its Very Own Mobile Payment App

By Kelly Faircloth

Retailers Like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy Band Together to Create Yet Another Mobile Payments App

By Nitasha Tiku
Wal-Mart (flickr.com/Monochrome)

Hey, Mobile Wallets Don’t Work for Everyone

By Kelly Faircloth

PayPal’s New Blue Dongle Reminds Everyone of the Dunder Mifflin Pyramid

By Nitasha Tiku

Real-Time Mobile Marketplace, Zaarly, Coming To New York Within Weeks

By Ben Popper

Square Scores Another Corporate Ally with Investment From Visa

By Ben Popper
Lawbreaker.

Why Square is Selling Through Apple at a Loss

By Ben Popper

A Square Deal on the Columbia Quad

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Square Drops Fees, Everybody Loves Square

By Adrianne Jeffries

Cutesy Venmo Receipts Are Now a Thing

By Adrianne Jeffries

Venmo Vends More Mobile Payments Faster

By Adrianne Jeffries

Jack Dorsey's Dongle Growing in Popularity

By Adrianne Jeffries

Mobile Payment Service Square Comes to the Masses

By Observer Staff
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