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November 26, 2018

Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker™

TRENDING: How Mobile Order-Ahead On Campus Attempts To Secure The Grade

Offering mobile order-ahead on college campuses takes more than just a great app and meal plan payments — it also requires tight security, says John Diaz, Blackboard’s VP of retail solutions product management. In PYMNTS’ latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker, Diaz explains how Blackboard is using tokenization to both score the order and keep student data secure.

 

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The Monday Conversation

Mobeewave Founders On Igniting Contactless Payments In 2019

Turning every NFC-enabled mobile device into a contactless payments terminal, without additional hardware, takes Olympian-level heroics and a commitment to seeing tap-and-go payments ignite. Mobeewave Co-founders (and Olympic rower) Benjamin du Haÿs and Maxime de Nanclas tell Karen Webster how they plan to do that, and why the card networks are in the boat rowing right alongside them.

 

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Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Losses Spotlight Bear Case For Cryptos

A 30-plus percent drop in bitcoin price last week ranks up there for worst-ever, one-week declines. There are signs, though, that the price drop for the marquee name in cryptos speaks to more than just speculative panic. Use cases remain limited, and as pricing proves ever-more volatile, here's why the picture may not get any brighter.

 

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Mobile Commerce

What Black Friday Tells Us About The Future Of Retail

Black Friday used to be a “thing” — the one day a year that consumers got up extra early to grab a primo place in line and snag great deals at the store. Karen Webster says that, today, Black Friday is just a souped-up example of how consumers shop the physical store every day — or, more precisely, how they don’t. She points to the two things that keep consumers walking into the physical store, but notes how neither can stop the consumers' increasing exodus from them.

 

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