What Even Is Cash Anymore?
Laundry days are the worst. Not because I hate doing laundry—I love warm, fluffy, clean clothes—but because I need cold…
How to Set Up Your Phone to Buy (Almost) Everything Without Cash
Mobile payments are the future, so we’re told. Apple, Google, and Android all want you surviving on nothing but their…
Why You Should Care If Apple Pay Comes to Websites
A report in Recode today suggests that Apple is planning to bring Apple Pay to websites later this year, which will let…
Why Visa Having a Developer Platform Actually Matters
Earlier today, a very dull press release from Visa announced an actually important thing: the world’s largest payment…
Chase's Dumb New Mobile Payments System is Destined to Fail
Mobile payments are all the rage right now! There’s the contactless magic of Apple and Android Pay, Samsung’s awesomely…
How to Access Apple Pay From the Lockscreen in iOS 9
With support for Apple Pay rolling out to more and more locations, as well as improved integration bundled into the…
Apple Pay will now work with PayAnywhere, a card reader that attaches to mobile devices to accept NFC and magnetic…
Paying For Stuff With Your Heartbeat Is Now A Thing
Apple Pay’s fingerprint authentication is already miles better than the laughable magnetic strip on our credit cards.…
Rite Aid, one of handful of stores that decided to back the MCX created CurrentC platform for mobile payments, is…
Apple Pay Is About to Be Everywhere With a New Square-Built Reader
Get ready to pay with your iPhone at the flea market, because the company just announced a mobile Apple Pay reader…
What Happens Behind the Scenes When You Buy Things with Your Phone
You’ve decided to buy a new pair of shoes, and you’re going to pay for them by tapping your smartphone against the…
Apple Store's New Credit Card Tech Is Its Most Reliable Yet
Because it was invented some time in the 1940s.
Samsung Pay Might Finally Let You Ditch Your Wallet
Mobile payments are here, the adoption of Apple Pay is evidence enough. But Samsung thinks it can do smartphone…
Google Wallet Will Be the Easiest Way to Pay on Your New Android Phone
Apple has Apple Pay. If you have an iPhone 6, your mobile payments platform of choice is pretty much set in stone. But…
Samsung Wants To Replace Your Credit Cards With These Clever Magnets
Your next Samsung Galaxy smartphone could have a neat trick up its sleeves. Just place your phone next to any ol'…
Apple Pay Is Coming to Thousands of Vending Machine and Parking Meters
Apple Pay, and other mobile payment services like it, all share a similar vision of the future, one where people can…
One Missouri Lawmaker Wants To Make Apple Pay Way Less Convenient
Apple Pay survives on convenience. "Don't worry about getting out your wallet or fishing in your purse. Just point your…
NFC Payments May Finally Be Heading To Restaurants
Mobile payments are great and all, and Apple Pay has certainly helped things along, but there are still lots of…