Old habits die hard for fast food fans in Seattle. Dick’s Drive-In, the burger mainstay that has been taking cash only for 62 years, began accepting more modern forms of payment… Read More
Driving into the parking lot of a Dick’s Drive-In in Seattle and realizing you don’t have any cash on hand has to be one of life’s great disappointments. But after… Read More
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced Android Pay, a new mobile payment system for its operating system that lets people purchase items with their smartphone. The new system… Read More
Discover cardholders will be able to use their credit cards with Apple Pay later this year, thanks to an agreement between the credit card company and Apple that was announced… Read More
The Apple Watch is arriving on the wrists of customers around the world starting today, but there are still plenty of outstanding questions about Apple’s foray into the smartwatch market. That’s… Read More
Apple may be taking its mobile payments technology north for the winter. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is in talks with the six largest banks in Canada… Read More
Not content to cede the realm of NFC-powered mobile payments to Apple and Google, Microsoft is in the midst of developing its own tap-to-pay service for Windows smartphones. Banking consultant… Read More
The Apple Watch is coming soon, and that means early adopters will get to pay for things out in the real world just by tapping their wrist against a payment… Read More
Google is taking another swing at the mobile payment market by partnering with three of the major U.S. wireless carriers to expand the reach of its Google Wallet mobile payment… Read More
Apple has just picked up a major new partner for its mobile payment service: the U.S government. Company CEO Tim Cook announced at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and… Read More
Starbucks is rolling out an updated iPhone app today that will finally enable Apple Pay. The Seattle coffee chain was one of the first retailers to say it would support Apple’s payments service… Read More
CurrentC, the mobile payment system being developed by a group of retailers — and a competitor to Apple Pay — has already been hacked. CurrentC is sending warning emails to beta users of… Read More
Watch out, Amazon: Apple and Alibaba may be teaming up. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma spoke at the WSJ Live conference last night about their… Read More
Apple Pay seems to be catching on — at least with consumers. Speaking at the WSJ.D conference on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that there were more than one million… Read More
In a move that’s tailor-made to spite consumers who want to give them money, Rite Aid and CVS have switched off their NFC payment terminals to stop people from using… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook wants to replace our wallets, and on a rainy afternoon in Seattle, we found out why. Team GeekWire spent time on Thursday hopping around some of America’s most-visited retailers — McDonald’s,… Read More
Amazon said this morning that its Amazon Rewards Visa card — you know, the one the company tries to get you to sign up for when you buy stuff online —… Read More
If you see a line of people outside McDonald’s today, here’s why: Apple is launching iOS 8.1 today, an update to its mobile operating system that includes support for its… Read More
People who have been waiting to make payments with their new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus don’t have to wait much longer. Apple Pay, the new mobile payments service from… Read More
eBay shares are not getting a bump from Wall Street today, following Tuesday’s announcement that it is spinning off PayPal into a separate company. Shares of the San Jose-based company are trading lower… Read More
Apple held a massive press event today, where it unveiled a quartet of important new products. While a ton of people tuned in to watch the live stream of the… Read More
You would have thought that new iPhones, the Apple Watch and an extensive mobile payments service would be enough to keep Wall Street happy. But even a private concert by U2, and… Read More