Cash and plastic cards are relics of the past. The best mobile payment apps we've tested let you easily make contactless payments, send friends money, or shop online with your phone. In 2014, I began ...

If you needed to order lunch or a cab or pull up your quarterly bank statement, you'd probably reach for one thing to do it: your smartphone. Our mobile devices have increasingly played an essential ...

While cash transactions aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, the convenience of electronic payment solutions has been steadily growing in popularity over the years. According to a recent survey by the ...

It’s been widely accepted that the U.S. is behind other markets in the adoption of mobile payments. In fact, mobile payments in the U.S. has often been considered a “solution looking for a problem.” ...

Mobile payment systems allow people to pay for goods and services by using their mobile devices. Have you ever gone out in a hurry and forgot to come along with your purse or wallet? Then, I bet you’d ...

Mobile phone payments have just been given an espresso shot, with the endorsement of Starbucks Corp., the first company to use a bar-code payments system from mFoundry Inc. Many banks and payment ...

In an effort to expand their portfolio, Motorola has recently announced an equity investment in ViVOtech, a company well known for its contactless and mobile phone payment technologies. Today's on-the ...

This article appears in the June 11, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. A growing number of large and small payment-technology companies are rolling out tools that can turn mobile phones into mobile ...