Mobile payments platform will go live with three Chinese banks on February 18
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O2 Customers’ Browsing Data Harvested For Targeted Tube Adverts
O2 users browsing habits, device activity and CRM information to be anonymised and used by Exterion Media for advertising on London Underground
PayPal Commerce Lets Retailers Place ‘Buy’ Buttons Everywhere
New PayPal platform will let merchants put 'buy' buttons in social media, apps, email and adverts in bid to make e-commerce easier
Google Brings The Physical Web To Your Phone
Android version of Chrome will now look to link your device to the world
Apple Pay Suffers First Major Outage
Visa customers left unable to link cars to their account during seven-hour Apple Pay downtime
Bitcoin Is Getting Steam-y
Valve preparing to open up cryptocurrency to pay for games and downloads, according to leaked information
London’s Black Cabs Are Going Contactless
Card payments will be installed in all black cabs by October, TfL confirms
Blockchain And The Future Of Finance
Cognizant’s Tony Virdi tells us why it is backing the new alternative to cash
LG G Pay Could Unite All Your Payments On One Card
Upcoming LG G Pay system could include a universal credit card that links to digital wallet
Visa Contactless Payments Increase By 250 Percent In One Year
Huge increase in contactless use helps push Visa revenues to new high during 2015
Here’s How Amazon’s Delivery Drones Will Work
Amazon vice president spills the beans on why Prime Air will be the future of delivery
IBM Wants To Use The Cloud To Get More Online Shopping Discounts
Cloud-based IBM Dynamic Pricing service will let retailers keep up to date with all their competitors
Bitcoin Is A ‘Failure’, Leading Developer Claims
Mike Hearn quits as he says the “fundamentals are broken” in Bitcoin technology
Barclaycard Finally Reveals Apple Pay Competitor
mybarclaycard Android app allows for contactless payments up to £30
Amazon Can Now Deliver By Sea
Retail giant sets up own shipping freight route between US and China for easier delivery
UK Online Spending Hits Record High In 2015
Black Friday and m-commerce help push online sales to £114bn over 2015
London’s Contactless TfL Journeys Top 1m A Day For The First Time
Contactless also now makes up a quarter of all pay-as-you-go transactions across the TFL network, Visa study finds
CES 2016 – MasterCard Just Took The Misery Out Of Food Shopping
Groceries by MasterCard service teams up with Samsung’s new smart fridge to make ordering a breeze
BBC Website, iPlayer Outage Blamed On DDoS Attack
BBC blames “technical issue” for outages, but insiders point to a distributed denial of service attack
What Are The Top Payments Trends For 2016?
From biometrics to Apple Pay, we take a look at some of the payments predictions for next year
Deck The Shelves And Get The Trolley – Why Christmas Day Is Open For Retailers
Laurence James from NetApp explains why Christmas Day shopping could be key for retailers everywhere
Apple Pay Is Coming To China
Apple Pay expands further following deal with Chinese bank UnionPay
How Can Retailers Deal With Peak Online Traffic At Christmas?
Deck the shelves and get the trolley!
How To Retain Customers In The Ever-Evolving Payments Landscape
David Nunn from Braintree offers some guidance on how businesses can improve the payments experience for customers everywhere
Contactless Payments Are The Key To A Profitable Christmas
Companies who don’t support contactless could be missing out on major returns this holiday season, EE survey warns
NetSuite Updates OneWorld, Spreads Dominion To More Than 100 Countries
NetSuite's OneWorld gets default support for 20 languages and configurable tax compliance for more than 100 countries
The Shopping Mall Of Things – A Black Friday In The Life Of IoT
David Eden, chief innovation officer at Tata Communications, discusses how, in the age of omni-channel retail, retailers use IoT to deliver the ultimate connected shopping experience
The UK Is About To Get Its Second Digital Bank
Tandem given full digital banking licence by Bank Of England
Got A MasterCard And Apple Pay? You Can Travel For Free In London Today
Payments firm opens up TfL network to promote its contactless services
All London Black Cabs Will Accept Cards From 2016
However minimum fares will rise by 20p in order to support new technology