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Yandex uses payment QR codes to woo merchants

08/02/201607/29/2016 Stephanie Beck

The company is launching a new mobile payments feature with retailers and other sellers in mind. Yandex.Checkout announced the launch of a new type of mobile transaction using payment QR codes. The goal is to appeal to merchants that are seeking to open up their options to smartphone based payments via barcode scans. Interested merchants will need to add quick response codes to their merchandise so shoppers can scan them. Consumers will need to have downloaded the Yandex.Money mobile app in order to scan the payment QR codes. The quick…

QR codes for Bitcoin exchanges can be impacted by screen brightness

10/12/201510/11/2015 L. Green

Certain quirks occurring in various devices can make it more challenging to use the cryptocurrency. As convenient as Bitcoin QR codes may be, this is among the small number of areas in which there can be a similar challenge to face when compared with the use of traditional forms of banking, as some small quirks can make things somewhat difficult. For example, the brightness of a device screen can make it hard or even impossible to scan quick response codes. When QR codes are provided in order to be able…