Tag: mobile payment terminals

Mobile commerce for holiday shopping getting revved up at many retailers

Julie Campbell
mobile holiday marketing christmas shopping

Sears and Kmart have announced new mobile point of sale in-store efforts. Two more major players have joined the wave of retailers that are implementing in-store mobile commerce programs, as Sears and Kmart have equipped their associates with tablets and point of sale devices to help get the stores ready for the holiday shopping season. A growing number of mass merchants are making a similar effort to help beat long in-store lineups. The store associates will also be able to use their mobile devices for additional mobile commerce efforts, such…

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Pilot program from PayPal allows Home Depot customers to pay with a mobile wallet

Julie Campbell
Home Depot Mobile Wallet

PayPal, an eBay company, is preparing to make its first announcements about a new partnership that it has started with Home Depot Inc., which will allow the home improvement chain’s customers to use its new mobile wallet system to pay for purchases, in direct competition with credit cards from Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. According to a PayPal spokesperson, Anuj Nayar, this new deal between the two giants represents the first time that PayPal has achieved a retail partnership that will allow consumers to make payments using e-commerce tools at…

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Isis calls its Google Wallet rival good for the business of mobile payments

John Montgallo
Mobile Commerce Industry

Isis CEO, Michael Abbott, has released a statement that is causing the mobile payment industry to raise a brow, saying that Google Wallet, its rival, is “the best thing that could happen.” This is an unexpected perspective from the head of the carrier-backed joint venture for mobile payments as it prepares to launch its own system. The mobile payment services have been created to allow smartphone and tablet users to tap their devices on special terminals in order to complete payment transactions for purchases. That said, Abbott’s long term concept…

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