Topic: Mobile Commerce

Starbucks launches new app function for 'digital tipping'

Starbucks says a digital tip function will be added to its mobile payment application starting next summer. A similar option will also be available on Starbucks' new payment app, 'Square.'

10 ways the Android is better than iPhone 5

Sure a larger iPhone screen, 4G LTE support and a faster CPU are welcome additions, but Apple is a year late and $199 short. Android has provided all these features and more.

Cash, credit, or phone? Starbucks joins Square for mobile payments

Often geared toward local businesses, mobile payment company Square has paired up with Starbucks. How the card-free transaction service could change the way consumers handle money.

Cookie sales soar as Girl Scouts adopt smart phones, credit cards

New plug-in devices from Square and Sage Mobile allow some smart phones to become card readers.

Mobile payments: Bigger than cash in 2015?

Mobile payments and other alternate payments could amount to $2.7 trillion in transactions by 2015, according to Intuit study. That would make mobile payments easily twice as popular as cash.

Black Friday sales 2011: New record for mobile shopping?

Black Friday sales 2011 will lure 60 million consumers to shop with their mobile devices, a new study says. A third will make a mobile purchase during the weekend of Black Friday sales 2011.

Google's 16 biggest purchases, and how they worked out

Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola will be its biggest acquisition ever -- more than four times the size of DoubleClick, the previous leader. But over the last decade, Google has been one of the biggest -- and most successful -- acquirers in the tech industry, and owes a lot of its success to these smart buys. Its core search advertising platform and most of its biggest new businesses, including Android, YouTube, and display advertising, all come from other companies. Join us as we count down Google's top 16 acquisitions by value and show what happened to them.

Amazon tablets mix best of Kindle and iPad: report

More tablets enter the ring as Amazon preps its own iPad rival to launch in October, according to reports. Can the minds behind the popular Kindle create tablets that stand out?

West Africa Rising: Mobile-phone banking making slow but steady inroads

Service providers are looking to introduce banking by phone, which revolutionized Kenya, to western Africa. But the lack of a dominant, single provider poses new challenges.

Cell phone banking could lift Africa's farmers

Borrowing and paying via cell phone – no cash involved – opens new possibilities.

EBay sues Google over stolen secrets, poached employees

EBay sues Google over mobile payment technology: PayPal's parent company, eBay, is suing Google after Google allegedly poached eBay executives in an effort to better understand PayPal's mobile payment strategy.

Smartphones help Girl Scouts sell cookies

Smartphones with an attachment for swiping credit cards help a Girl Scout troop in Ohio sell cookies to customers who don't want to pay cash

Can mobile banking take off in Afghanistan?

A new mobile banking service tries to navigate the geography and politics of Afghanistan.

Opinion: To help the poor, get rid of their cash

More than 2.5 billion people around the world today lack access to formal financial services – a major obstacle to building vital savings. But new mobile banking services are spreading in Africa, helping millions of people pull themselves out of poverty.

Smartphones: Protect your phone from these hackers' traps

Smartphones are increasingly the target of hackers looking for financial data. Here's how to protect yourself and your favorite piece of mobile technology.

Black Friday traffic jam. In the parking lot? No, on your phone.

Black Friday shoppers increasingly rely on smartphones to get the best deal, a new study says.

Africa is on the cusp of an Internet boom

The last decade in Africa was dominated by cell phones, but now the continent is on the cusp of an Internet revolution, some in the technology industry say.

Fix the economy? There's a mobile app for that.

Mobile apps could boost the economy just as previous high-tech breakthroughs have.

Meet the new mobile shopper: Smarter phones, savvier spenders

Mobile shopping is growing fast. Will it change the way you shop?

Best deals from Black Friday 2009 ads: Use your smartphone

Using smartphones, consumers can get the best deals from all those Black Friday 2009 ads.

Nacha: a taste of the mobile-payments future

Mobile payments will spawn big innovations, including person-to-person transactions.

Who needs bank branches? Deposit checks via iPhone.

Cellphone banking takes Kenya by storm

Less than two years after introducing mobile banking, M-Pesa has registered one-sixth of the population as customers and moves more than $4 million each day.