BROWSING: Visa

The top three markets in terms of mobile payment users are Turkey, Denmark and Norway The number of Europeans regularly making mobile payments with their smart devices has reached 54% compared to 18% in 2015, according to Visa’s 2016 digital payments study. The study, which surveyed over...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Uber and Visa have partnered to bring customers of both companies an “Olympic experience." Beginning Aug. 5, when the games started, customers who requested Uber Visa RioPOOL in select cities could share an interactive ride in special vehicles, and could even...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Payments using near field communication technology have been a promise for a while, but until now no application has been popular or good enough to replace plastic cards. With about 4,000 points of sale equipped with NFC, Visa is using the Rio...

Technology developments play a big role in transforming the Rio Olympics, whether improving result accuracy or increasing athletes’ performances. The next transformation and even greater impact are expected to come from the massive use of sensors combined with big data analytics. Almost 20% of the...

Telia Carrier will provide backhaul and interconnect to Ericsson’s device connection platform via a dedicated global IoT backbone. Ericsson has selected Telia Carrier for the provision of a global dedicated IoT backbone for its device connection platform (DCP). IoT operators will now be able...

IoT projects face a number of technical and business challenges. Connectivity and proving ROI are ranked as the biggest challenges by European IT professionals. Enterprises face a number of technical and business challenges when it comes to planning and deploying "Internet of Things" projects. A survey...

IoT projects face a number of technical and business challenges. Connectivity and proving ROI are ranked as the biggest challenges by European IT professionals. Enterprises face a number of technical and business challenges when it comes to planning and deploying "Internet of Things" projects. A survey...

Credit card payment giant Visa targets evolving mobile payments market BARCELONA, Spain – The mobile payment market is quickly evolving around the globe and credit card giant Visa is looking to play a bigger role in the space. At the recent Mobile World Congress event,...

In today's Mobile Minute, Microsoft makes changes, CWA supports AT&T's DirecTV bid, and reviewers praise the new iPhone 6. Mobile Minute Microsoft is making leadership changes, proceeding with its planned layoffs, and funneling cash back to shareholders. Today the software giant said that Visa CEO Charles...