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Let’s Kill Cash: Q&A With Author David Wolman On Our Moneyless Future

1:00PM Yesterday | Mat Honan

Cash is an antiquated concept. It originated thousands of years ago as a banking receipt that bearers could exchange for stored grain or gold. Today it’s little more than an abstract concept, its value tied to perception instead of goods. More »

News

Obama Is Using Square To Take Donations Now

1:21AM January 31, 2012 | Casey Chan

President Obama wants to get re-elected! No surprise there. He also needs your money! Big whoop. He’s going to use Square to get those donations! Hey now, that’s pretty convenient. According to Politico, campaign personnel for Obama are being issued Square credit card readers More »

Online

Google Checkout Is No More, Long Live Google Wallet

12:30AM November 19, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

As NFC technology and mobile purchasing move into the mainstream, Google’s separate online payment systems, Checkout and Wallet, have become redundant. One of them has got to go. More »

Online

PayPal Launches New App To Send Money Over Facebook

5:39AM November 18, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

PayPal’s got a new Facebook app called Send Money that’s going to make it a lot easier to send money to another person over the internet. And now even your gushing, huggy aunt can take care of your birthday in a few seconds on Facebook. More »

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This Cheque Created Superman And Changed Comic Books Forever

8:40AM October 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

Superman is as iconic a character as there is — the superhero is a part of Western culture. But how was he really created? Like in real life? He was bought. And this is the check that DC used to create his legend. But why should we care? Well… More »

Online

Is Digital Money The New Way To Buy Drugs?

1:00PM September 30, 2011 | Joe Brown

I’m not gonna name names, but someone just mentioned paying for weed with a Square account. It’d be equally easy to use Paypal, Venmo, Bitcoin (RIP) or any of the myriad mobile payment systems that allow you to send money from your phone. More »

Mobile

NFC Just Got Simple Enough For Actual People To Use

2:25AM September 30, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

NFC is the almost-near future of how we interact with the physical world around us, and a new addition to the technology’s protocol today is going to make using it a lot easier. More »

Mobile

Google Wallet: The Future Of Money Is Here, Sorta

7:40AM September 20, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

“Whoa, how did you do that?” I didn’t say anything when the shop assistant asked me how to pay. I just smashed my phone into the PayPass terminal. Money poured out of my Nexus S, and into somebody’s corporate coffers. Magic! More »

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You Are About To Start Shopping With Gestures Thanks To Kinect

1:04PM September 16, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

It’s about time someone did something cool with Kinect that wasn’t an art project or a glorified Dance Dance Revolution. A new Mastercard prototype makes it scary easy to buy stuff off your TV with the flick of an arm. More »

Mobile

Visa Making A Push For Mobile Payments

2:00AM August 10, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Visa is accelerating its adoption of both NFC and EMV contact technology in the coming years. US chip suppliers for both technologies will have to “support merchant acceptance of chip transactions no later than April 1, 2013″. [Visa via TechCrunch]