The decision by CVS Health Corp. and Rite Aid Corp. to block Apple Inc.’s mobile-payment technology presages a long fight over the fees and customer data collected when people use smartphones to buy stuff. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

About 60% of the first cards loaded onto Apple Pay are Visa cards, and the card network plans to build on this beginning in an aggressive mobile commerce strategy, according to CEO Charles Scharf. Source: http://www.paymentssource.com

#ApplePay and #CurrentC shine light on #mobile #payments http://t.co/zsTZzVpyin Source: http://www.fierceretail.com

Many retailers are rejecting Apple Pay for their own app, CurrentC. Incoming facepalm: It just got hacked. Source: money.cnn.com

Apple Pay is another great innovation by Apple, right? Not so fast. Apple Pay is not a new invention, it will succeed where others have failed. Here’s why. Source: http://www.evolvemoney.com

In our evolving economy, consumers expect to be able to shop anywhere at any time. According to Forrester Research, mobile payments will amount to $90 billion in the coming years. Source: http://www.scoop.it

The Poynt Smart Terminal is like a one-size-fits-all payments system. It has an NFC antenna, a magnetic swipe reader, a Bluetooth antenna, a QR code reader, a printer for receipts, and even an Android tablet to boot. Source: gizmodo.com

  SurveyMonkey Audience has teamed up with Blueshift Research, an investment research firm, to deliver another report tracking monthly consumer trends Source: http://www.surveymonkey.com

When CVS and Rite Aid disabled Apple Pay over the weekend, it drew attention to rival mobile wallet CurrentC. Source: http://www.idigitaltimes.com

In November of 2012, Google Wallet chief Osama Bedier admitted defeat. “Nobody today is delivering any solution that will get scale, including me,” he said onstage at the Open Mobile Summit. Soon,… Source: http://www.theverge.com