Mobile payments

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.

From its beginnings as a standalone Starbucks Card app, the Starbucks mobile experience was always a bit different from what other companies tried to do.

AWS's recent tech summit, with strobe lights and throbbing sound system may have felt more like a music festival than a conference, but one thing was clear: the symbiotic relationship between the online juggernaut and financial services runs deep.

The person-to-person network also saw $28 billion in payments in the quarter and it added more bank members.

Dunkin’ Brands, parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, is extending its deal with mobile app maker CardFree to increase its efforts to close the mobile coffee-sales gap with its rival, Starbucks.

Though it’s still early in the development of voice assistant technology, researchers are getting a sense of who’s most likely to use voice commands for shopping and payments.