Mastercard and Swarovski team to launch a virtual reality shopping app

Mastercard and Swarovski team to launch a virtual reality shopping app

#AtelierSwarovski Virtual Showroom, a revolutionary virtual reality experience by #Swarovski & @Mastercard offers a seamless new way to shop pic.twitter.com/OaIJ8RpOtD — Swarovski (@swarovski) September 26, 2017 Mastercard has teamed up with jewellery firm Swarovski on a virtual reality app that immerses shoppers in a “home” where they can browse and purchase items using Masterpass. The […]

MasterCard Teams with Turkish Mobile Retailer for Messenger Payments

MasterCard Teams with Turkish Mobile Retailer for Messenger Payments

MasterCard has partnered with Turkish mobile retail firm Getir to integrate Masterpass – MasterCard’s digital wallet and mobile payments platform – into Getir’s bot on Facebook Messenger in Turkey. With this ‘first use’ of Masterpass through a bot on Messenger, customers can chat with Getir’s bot on Messenger ‘in a natural, conversational way’ to choose […]

Byron and TGI Fridays go bill-free with Mastercard’s Qkr! app

Byron and TGI Fridays go bill-free with Mastercard’s Qkr! app

TGI Fridays and Byron will soon be accepting the Qkr! with Masterpass app throughout its restaurants, letting UK customers pay from their smartphone using the app- speeding up the bill paying process. Group Individual Restaurants has also signed a deal with Mastercard to implement Qkr across their UK sites early in 2017, which will soon […]

Mcommerce to capture 49pc of online retail sales by 2020

Mcommerce to capture 49pc of online retail sales by 2020

As ecommerce sales continue their meteoric growth, mobile is grabbing a larger market share, with smartphone-enabled purchases set to grow from $122 billion in 2015 to nearly $319 billion by 2020, according to a new report from Javelin. A greater number of overall ecommerce purchases will come from smartphones, per Javelin’s estimate that mcommerce purchases […]