If you needed to order lunch or a cab or pull up your quarterly bank statement, you'd probably reach for one thing to do it: your smartphone. Our mobile devices have increasingly played an essential ...

That’s understandable, as NFC and mobile payments have been grouped together by analysts, pundits, researchers and retailers since the short-range wireless technology first started making headlines in ...

A new report claims that Apple has offered to open up iPhone near-field communication central to Apple Pay to other payment services, to fight off antitrust claims in the EU. The report on Tuesday, by ...

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a type of passive 13.56 MHz RFID technology that enables short-range wireless data transmissions at 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) or less. It powers such applications as ...

LIVE FROM THE GSMA’S NFC & MOBILE MONEY SUMMIT, NEW YORK: Lack of mass-market NFC handsets is one of the factors holding back wider take-up of NFC in China, according to Liu Xin (pictured), deputy ...

The number of NFC-enabled devices will pass 500 million within 12 months, according to ABI Research, thanks to the efforts of OEMs. The report said a minimum of 285 million NFC-based mobile and ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flexa, the leading provider of pure-digital payments, is today introducing Tap to Pay support for cryptocurrency transactions, becoming the first digital currency acceptance ...

A group of Australian banks has applied for permission from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to directly negotiate open Near Field Communication (NFC) functionality with Apple ...

The BBB warns of a rising ghost-tap scam exploiting tap-to-pay cards and mobile wallets. How attackers use NFC proximity tricks.