| Google Pay Wallet Includes Tickets Apple Pay no longer has the lock (screen) on enabling mobile boarding passes inside a digital wallet. Google Pay and its partnership with Urban Airship adds a core mobile functionality thatâs been conspicuously absent from Android phones, and ups the ante to include tickets â all tickets. It's a seismic shift, Urban Airship SVP, Mike Herrick, told Karen Webster â one that gives ticket aggregators a way to monetize âday ofâ activities, and a very good reason to reprioritize their digital ticketing plans. |
| LendingClub Surprises With Profits On Higher Loan Volume LendingClub surprised investors when it posted its 1Q results yesterday. Loan volume increased and the firm managed to eke out a slight profit. The better-than-expected result, however, didn't do much to move LendingClubâs stock price, as investors remain dubious about its problems with the FTC. |
| Socure: Those Without Data History May Be Doomed To Repeat It Giving consumers control of their own data may sound like the right thing to do, but what happens if everyone exercises the âright to be forgottenâ under GDPR? Socure co-founder Johnny Ayers said a lack of historical data could leave organizations unable to fight fraud effectively â thus having the opposite effect as intended. |
| | Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™ | | TRENDING: How Integrated Payments Supersize Small Event Sales The organization of local cooking classes, training courses, workshops and charity fundraisers hits a very big brick wall when it comes to selling tickets. Muthu Kumar, CEO of Eventzilla, tells PYMNTS that getting a merchant account is often unrealistic for those event organizers, and tapping into large events management platforms is too costly. Kumar explains how integrated payments and online event platforms built with those local events in mind yield big results. |
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