Visa Checkout, Masterpass come to Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Microsoft Wallet in 2017

What’s the bane of so many online consumers these days? No, not having to bring their computers around everywhere they go to buy everyday items — that gag’s taken.It’s having to fill out their credit card information in box-by-box forms over and over and over again. You know what would help? Bypass systems like Visa Checkout and Masterpass. You know what would really help? Mobile payments systems.Starting in early 2017, the two online card bypass systems will hitch to a few mobile payment systems to allow you to authenticate purchases made on your smartphone through ...

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Visa unveils one ring to rule all contactless payments, at least at the 2016 Olympics

Smart rings may not be quite as old as time, but plenty of tech startups have attempted to move at least part of the magic currently going on in your hands, pockets and around your wrists to your fingers in the past couple of years.We even have reason to believe industry veterans and leaders like Samsung and Apple are quietly working behind the scenes to integrate various ways to control phones, tablets and PCs on tomorrow’s intelligent rings.For the time ...

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