Do you hitch a lot of rides with Uber? Now you can pay for them with an Uber credit card — and score some added perks in the process. Starting Nov. 2, you can apply for the Uber Visa, a no-annual-fee card that comes from online-banking service Barclays. Is it something you should consider? Let’s …
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Apple Pay so far hasn’t inspired people to burn their wallets, but there’s one type of newer digital payment that’s gaining traction. Visa on Thursday said Visa Checkout now has over 20 million enrolled customers. That’s double the 10 million of around the same time last year, but still a fraction of Visa’s 2.5 billion total issued cards. With the …
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Sunglasses and contactless payments: They go together like music festivals and contactless payments. At least, that’s the idea behind the WaveShades, a new contactless payment system built into sunglasses and born from a partnership between Australian startup Inamo, sunglasses-maker Local Suppy and Visa. The prototype tap-and-go sunglasses are being rolled out ahead of Australia’s Laneway music festivals, presumably so you’ll …
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Amazon is rolling out yet another new benefit for its Prime members, but this one’s a mouthful: It’s called the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature card. If you’re as overstocked with Amazon trivia as I’ve become, you may know that Amazon already has three other branded credit cards. So what’s the difference with this one? Well, two of the existing …
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Black Friday 2016’s reign as the biggest US online sales day ever didn’t last long. Three days to be exact. That’s because Cyber Monday hit $3.45 billion in online sales, up 12 percent from a year earlier, according to the latest statistics from Adobe Digital Insights. The day edged out Black Friday by roughly $110 million. Jill Stein is already …
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On a Friday this month in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, I chatted with a handful of people about what it was like for them to buy T-shirts, toothpaste or TVs on their phones. I got an earful. “It’s difficult to move around and look for other options,” Munaf Tinwala, a 42-year-old chemical engineer from Long Island, told me. “It’s just …
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It’s going to get a whole lot easier to use Android Pay for mobile web purchases. Google on Monday announced new partnerships with Visa and Mastercard that will eventually allow Android Pay users to shop on thousands of sites where Visa Checkout or Masterpass are accepted. This should eliminate the need for you to remember multiple usernames and passwords for …
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NAB is claiming a world first with its new banking app, which will allow customers to use their credit card to make mobile payments before they’ve even received their plastic card in the mail. The feature will be available when NAB launches its new mobile app “later this year,” and will allow customers to apply for a new personal Visa …
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