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Mobile payments through Passbook popular at Sephora

04/12/201304/11/2013 Stephanie Beck

iPhone users are proving to be among the best customers at the beauty product company. Sephora USA Inc. has just revealed that Apple Passbook users are among its bets customers, as these mobile payments users will typically spend twice as much and as often as other shoppers. The retailer has used its Passbook pass to provide loyal customers with rewards and other benefits. According to Sephora, there have been more than 600,000 Beauty Insider loyalty cards that have already been registered by customers into their Passbook mobile payments wallets through…

Mobile commerce jumps ahead in Austin with ISIS release

10/24/201210/23/2012 Jennifer Goula

This launch was announced by Verizon Wireless, in conjunction with the launch in Salt Lake City. Verizon Wireless, one of the participants in the ISIS mobile commerce joint venture, has officially announced that the smartphone wallet service is now available in Austin and Salt Lake City as a part of the long awaited official launch. The wireless provider held a store event at its location in Great Hills to celebrate the Austin launch. The service had its official start on Monday in both Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah.…

Mobile payments at Starbucks allow customers to leave tips

10/08/201210/07/2012 Jennifer Goula

This new function will be implemented by the summer of 2013. Starbucks has announced that its mobile payments system will soon be including a feature that will allow customers to leave a digital tip for baristas, and that this will likely become available as of next summer. A similar ability will also be available through the Square program to be implemented in November. This additional mobile payments system at Starbucks will also give customers the chance to leave tips for the baristas when they purchase their coffees. In order to…

Bank of America snubs NFC in favor of alternative

09/28/2012 Stephen Vagus

Bank of America testing new mobile payment system Bank of America has chosen to abandon NFC technology in favor of a new, image-based technology it is currently testing. The system that the bank is testing is designed to be a mobile commerce solution that is an alternative to NFC technology. The system seems to have an immediate appeal to retailers interested in mobile commerce as it requires them to share nothing more than a simple image with consumers. This removes the need for expensive hardware and could win the support…

QR codes central to Royal Canadian Mint’s challenge winner

09/26/201209/26/2012 L. Green

MintWallet won the $50,000 prize with its Windows Phone app. The challenge created by the Royal Canadian Mint was designed in order to encourage the development of an app that will clearly illustrate the advantages of using digital funds over actual cash, and was met with a winner that used QR codes as the heart of its functionality. The winning app, called MintWallet, offers several digital cash transfer opportunities. Among those features are the ability to request money from another party or to send money. It is based on a…