Retailers

Ring's smart doorbell was its billion-dollar ticket to Amazon's empire, which bought the company as part of its move into consumers' homes and communities.

Standard Cognition has opened its first cashierless store to the public on Market Street in San Francisco and it’s testing the concept by selling an assortment of food and household products for consumers to purchase and pay without scanning or stopping to check out.

Transactions are becoming just one part of an ecosystem that includes CRM and business management, according to Ryan Ahern, payments solution manager at Ingenico Group, North America.

Blockchain technology has the potential to change the healthcare industry, placing the patient, at the center of the system by providing added security, privacy and interoperability to health data and payments, writes Donika Kraeva, strategic communications manager for Dentacoin.

Counter to the trend — pioneered by Amazon — of launching cashierless technology in small stores to keep traffic under control, the U.K. supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has launched a trial of cashierless mobile shopping in one of its busy London stores, Clapham North Station Local.

By transforming a traditional treasury into a cashless economy, cities will open the doors to wider and faster adoption of more complex smart city innovations, writes Sumeet Puri, senior vice president and global head of systems engineering at Solace.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is sending a message to the payments industry that it might not be wise to wait on the card networks to solve the growing problem of mobile and online payments fraud.

As the pressure to monetize data in an omnichannel environment increases, so does the fear of misuse.

Amazon Go may be stealing the spotlight, but it is far from alone in the rush to revolutionize in-store checkout through the use of sensors, scanners, mobile devices and more.

While the battle for the consumer’s coffee or tea beverage, both hot and cold, is increasingly moving in a mobile direction, the challenge remains as to whether Dunkin’s recent moves are enough for it to succeed against Starbucks.