In the mobile-driven population of China, there’s already a clear leader in mobile payments — Alipay, Alibaba’s mobile payment system. Can Apple keep up even if Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Banks are increasingly worried about the likelihood that they’ll look like the bad guys if merchants haven’t upgraded their point-of-sale systems to support EMV Source: http://www.pymnts.com

It’s already clear that in an EMV equipped world, what was once traditional POS fraud will morph into an onslaught of online and mobile hacking. The pressure is Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Big data isn’t always better data. In fact, TSYS’s Sr. Director of Analytics, Todd Doherty, says that focus on big data has just led to “obese data” as Source: http://www.pymnts.com

ComScore has crunched the numbers for current social media use, particularly regarding age. Snapchat has the biggest percentage of younger adults. Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com

Setting up a sales and marketing strategy that converts is no mean feat and it can go wrong for any number of reasons, not least: People jump straight into the tactics (quickly, send that email to our database! Source: ix7.co.uk

The latest U.S. spectrum auction lifted the value of the bandwidth T-Mobile obtained as a consolation prize from AT&T in 2012, analysts estimate, making the breakup fee sweeter for the upstart phone company. Source: http://www.wsj.com

General Management – More than half (55%) of advertising and marketing executives say they are collaborating more closely with the technology leaders in their company compared with three years ago, according to a … Source: http://www.marketingprofs.com

Shanghai — Mobile payment is flourishing in China. It is not limited to online shopping either. People are using their smartphones or other mobil Source: asia.nikkei.com

Mobile payments are evolving, but it will take time before traditional credit cards are truly under threat Source: http://www.tweaktown.com