Retailers

EBay Inc., struggling to turn itself around and catch up with dominant Amazon.com Inc., has invented a new day: Mobile Wednesday.

The app will be available at 7,500 Starbucks locations in the U.S. and 1,400 Best Buy locations, and is part of a much broader rollout that's expected to last into early next year.

The EMV migration has been sluggish, but it's a vital part of protecting cardholders.

The Scan & Go mobile app went live last month at Sam’s Club, allowing consumers to scan their own items as they shop and pay within the app, an innovation that could cut down on checkout lines.

The two-year old APASS has helped Alibaba persuade wealthier consumers to up their spending at Tmall and Taobao shopping emporiums.

By collaborating with consumers' favorite products or retailers, loyalty programs can get an extra punch.

Merchants are still slow to adopt mobile point of sale systems. But improvements in usability and longer battery life can turn that around.

Evidence exists that in most markets in which public regulators oversaw EMV implementations, the results were much better for merchants and consumers.

Consumers visiting sites using WP Engine’s checkout technology will use Chrome to obtain payment and shipping details with a few taps.

Citi's bank-branded mobile wallet will have the head start of the institution's vast scale.

The move is designed to help publishing companies improve coupon and payments performance.

Merchants without chip card readers are reporting that a few malicious customers have figured out how to game the system.

Any company that uses point of sale systems or technology is at risk.

Small merchants need to adopt omnichannel, but it can be difficult in a low resource environment. Staying flexible to add technology fast is key.

Mobile wallets need to be open and accessible across all systems.

The card networks earlier this year introduced faster versions of EMV payments to ease checkout times. They've since had a hard time winning merchant adoption.

Like Uber, Airbnb has become a popular partner for payment companies.

Consumers increasingly are embracing contactless payments for smaller, routine transactions, with average transaction size rising slightly.

Merchants have been allowed to surcharge in most states for the past three years, but many were not aware. That's starting to change.

Long one of mobile payments' success stories, Starbucks reports major gains in both mobile ordering and payments.