Polaroid has new ownership and fresh determination to make its well known brand great again. This week the company launched a couple of new products in two Source: petapixel.com

Digital books are transforming the way students of all ages learn today. The interactive elements of digital books enhance the learning experience, making it far more informative and interesting than before. Source: dailygenius.com

Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus now are available unlocked for $650. Source: money.cnn.com

The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show brought a big announcement from Toyota: the automaker will make more than 5,600 patents on fuel-cell technologies available, free of royalty payments, to transportations companies . Source: http://www.csmonitor.com

San Francisco is prepping a pilot that will let riders on the Municipal Railway (Muni) purchase and use fares through a mobile app. Source: http://www.finextra.com

According to a May 2014 report, the digital payments industry in India was expected to grow 40% year-onyear to Rs 1,200 crore by 2014-end. Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com

STRIPE ALIKE: LoopPay’s MST system plays back pulses which are easily picked up and decoded by the magnetic stripe reader head in an ordinary POS terminal Source: http://www.nfcworld.com

Square Cash, a product that allows consumers to send money to contacts via their mobile devices, has added the Touch ID feature to its iOS app, online media outlet techcrunch.com reports. Source: http://www.thepaypers.com

LoopPay, a mobile payment startup company, has just announced their plans to partner with XPAL Power and Trident Case to bring LoopPay-enabled cases to the Galaxy S5 and Note 4. Source: http://www.androidauthority.com

Visa Nine Polish banks are to launch host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments services using Visa’s cloud-based payment specifications Source: nfcmania.fr