Tuesday , January 28, 2025

Mobile Commerce

SurgePays Partners With Clover to Ease Marketing at the Point of Sale

SurgePays Inc. is integrating its ClearLine marketing platform with Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology set. The integration will enable small and mid-size merchants to deliver marketing and customer-engagement strategies at the point-of-sale. The integration adds value to independent sales organizations’ offerings by providing advanced marketing capabilities at the point of …

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Fee Cap Injunction Remains and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/10/24

Restaurant server tips averaged 18.8% in the third quarter, unchanged from the second quarter, according to data from Toast Inc.’s Q3 2024 Restaurant Trends Report. The research gathered data from approximately 127,000 locations served by the Toast payments platform. Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Seller Central will integrate AI-based payments and financial-management tools from Intuit Inc. …

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DataVisor Launches Real Time Fraud Detection

DataVisor Inc., a fraud- and risk-management solutions provider, early Monday announced the launch of an artificial intelligence-based platform that measures hot spot, distinct count, and high-frequency data in real time. The ability to measure these three data points in real time helps speeds the identification of potential fraud threats, which …

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Google Sues the CFPB After the Agency Slams Google Over a Wallet It No Longer Offers in the U.S. Market

Google Inc. has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following the CFPB’s action Friday asserting federal supervision of the company’s Google Pay wallet. In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the same day the CFPB acted, the tech giant argues the case targets a payment service …

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Bank of America Completes Paze Enablement

Consumers holding Bank of America Corp. credit and debit cards now have access to the Paze online checkout following BofA’s  declaration that all of its eligible cards are now enabled for the e-commerce service. Paze is an online-checkout service developed by Early Warning Services LLC. It is designed to provide …

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COMMENTARY: How Endpoint And Mobile Device Management Can Help Crack Down on Risk 

Financial firms live and die by their reputation. While we know that, with credit unions, insurance companies, and holding companies, the result of a cyberattack could mean funding challenges, reputational damage, and even insolvency, what many don’t know is that, today, around 70% of business risks enter through an endpoint …

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Toast And Uber Expand a Delivery Partnership; SoundHound Rolls Out AI Ordering at Torchy’s Tacos

Hospitality point-of-sale company Toast Inc. has expanded its partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. to enable restaurants using Uber’s delivery service to reach customers through more channels and lower their delivery costs. Toast will integrate its platform with Uber Direct, Uber’s on-demand delivery platform that enables businesses to take orders through their Web …

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Payments Execs Head into Government As Fiserv And Shift4 CEOs Are Nominated for Key Federal Roles

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fiserv Inc. chief executive Frank Bisignano to be the next commissioner of the Social Security Administration, headquartered in Woodlawn, Md. The move follows by a day news that Trump has named Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc., a Fiserv rival, to …

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GNC Adds Paze Checkout and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/5/24

Online checkout service Paze said retailer GNC now accepts the digital wallet. Paze is a checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC. Digital gifting platform On Me signed a five-year agreement with Mastercard Inc. and received $1.7 million in pre-seed funding from venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau and Focal.VC to help it expand its retailer …

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OwlTing Partners With MoneyGram; Nuvei Enables Blockchain Payment in Latin America; Nacha’s Crypto Report

OwlTing Group, a blockchain-technology company, is working with MoneyGram International Inc. to support cash-in transactions from local fiat currencies to USD Coin in its OwlPay Wallet Pro service at nearly 50,000 MoneyGram locations in 30 countries. OwlPay Wallet Pro is a blockchain-based, unhosted digital wallet that enables cross-border transactions. USD Coin is …

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