It seems Google might be considering moving beyond NFC in its quest to compete with Apple Pay, according to new data published in The Information.   The search-giant has reportedly been quietly testing a contextually-aware mobile, bluetooth-based… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

While the world tries to determine whether social media celebrities count as real celebrities, there is little controversy around the idea that the social media famous have a big role to play in motivating the shopping behaviors of others. Source:…

Apple’s attempts to bring Apple Pay to China have hit a few bumps in the road. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Europe’s answer to Square, iZettle, is introducing its new Card Reader Lite, which is reportedly the world’s first free-­of-charge Chip and PIN reader. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Recently made public company and GrubHub rival Just Eat announced this week that they had bought out Mexican online take-out service SinDelantal.mx, adding it to the Spanish SinDelantal it had bought three years ago as Latin America increasingly… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

For retailers and card issuers, the push to switch over to EMV and tokenized payments can’t come fast enough, as 2014 saw a spike in the total costs of fraudulent purchases among U.S. retailers, according to a LexisNexis study. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

One day most merchants will accept EMV-chip cards. The goal of adopting a secure payment technology is becoming real pic.twitter.com/ekJbyLJK07 Source: twitter.com

For retailers and card issuers, the push to switch over to EMV and tokenized payments can’t come fast enough, as 2014 saw a spike in the total costs of fraudulent purchases among U.S. retailers, according to a LexisNexis study. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Alipay, the leading Chinese payment processor, agreed to a deal with Limonetik, a leading European payments processor, that will enable European merchants access to Chinese consumers via online payments, according to a press release sent to The… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

By Dmitry Solovyov and Mariya Gordeyeva ALMATY (Reuters) – The ruling party of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Monday it wanted the veteran leader to extend his term in an early election this year, in a sign the oil-rich…