Mobile payments

After a slow start, order-ahead payment services will begin to achieve more widespread adoption in U.K. corporate catering, encouraging the transition to the high street in the near future.

Consumers' growing dependence on smartphones makes it all the more crucial to be prepared to do business where your members are.

The fleet card industry is deep in the throes of change, with many truck drivers still switching from clunky paper-based payments to mobile technology with streamlined, data-laden payment apps. The next big challenge is the rise of electric vehicles, followed eventually by self-driving cars and trucks.

While mass transit has long been seen as a potential catalyst for changing payment habits, it's apps such as Uber, Grab and Lyft that are making the biggest difference in how people pay for transportation.

For their own sake, GrubHub and Uber should have purchased Caviar when Square reportedly offered it to them for sale in 2016. Instead, they now have a competitor who’s looking to eat their lunch in the restaurant delivery business.

Tailoring company objectives to customers’ changing expectations is no longer a choice. Customer loyalty programs are not just the source of bringing repeated business but also the determinant of the future key players across all industries, writes Donika Kraeva, Communications Manager at Dentacoin Foundation, Netherlands.

Starbucks Corp. is joining forces with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to begin delivering its drinks and baked goods in China, rolling out an effort to stave off competitors and turn around sales in the country.

Square Inc. gave an earnings forecast for the current quarter and year that fell short of analysts’ high expectations, a rare miss for the company and a signal its spending on new products and growth are tempering profit.

Mobile e-commerce is growing fast, and online retail fraud levels are keeping pace with this expanded sales volume.

The Japanese telco Softbank is partnering with Yahoo Wallet to launch a mobile payment app called “PayPay” this fall.