Retailers

Along with activating contactless payments at its store terminals, Costco has opened its checkout lines to Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay. But there’s a catch.

Bitcoin's scale and energy consumption have held it back as a payments option, but there are advancements that can change that, according to Jan-Willem Burgers, Europe technology lead with the distributed ledger practice at Capgemini.

Even as the payments landscape has become increasingly complicated and convoluted over the past several years, many industry players have not kept pace with their payments testing methods or tools, writes Steve Gilde, director of global product marketing for Paragon Application Systems.

Installing a modern payment gateway, for example, makes the checkout process more convenient, speeding up order processing while offering alternative payment methods, saved customer information and location-specific options, writes Amit Bhaiya, co-founder and CEO of DotcomWeavers.

With increasing value propositions, use of Apple Pay for in-store purchases should continue to increase, writes Mohammad Khan, president and co-founder of Omnyway.

Consumers, who often understand little to anything about the fees retailers pay to accept cards, will not care about the details of the fight and will place their displeasure solely on the shoulders of any large retailer that elects this strategy, writes Myron Schwarcz, executive vice president of Strategic Resource Management.

In blockchain, a dispersed network of stakeholders takes over the previous owners of such services. These providers and users not only own but maintain the services that are powered by the blockchain. They also get to share the profits that are produced by the services, contends Donika Kraeva, communications manager at Dentacoin.

Proximity to the client is crucial. Only by understanding your client’s perspective on AI can you deliver a project that is truly worthwhile, writes Naomi Bowman, managing director at Berkeley Research Group.

Concern over Exobot is spreading beyond banking and across other sectors where customers regularly transact online, from e-commerce and retail to health care, writes Don Duncan, security engineer for NuData Security.

In partnering with Ingo Money, Safelite Solutions will be able to provide a service for their customers that's designed to make the processing of minor auto physical damage claims easier than manual processes.