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An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple’s new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18. A Saturday launch is unusual, but it could make sense as Apple Pay is designed for in-store shopping and a weekend debut would Continue Reading →

The Internet Of Things is coming. Rejoice! …Mostly. It will open our collective eyes to petabytes of real-time data, which we will turn into new insights and efficiencies. It will doubtless save lives. Oh, yes: and it will subtly redefine ownership as we know it. You will no longer own many of the most expensive Continue Reading →

Kmart and Dairy Queen customers should check their credit- and debit-card statements for shady activity. That’s because the retailer and the fast-food chain have become the latest businesses to reveal that their payment systems were hacked. “Beginning in early September, the payment data systems at Kmart stores were purposely infected with a new form of Continue Reading →

In the last day, news has been circulating that a database of some 200,000 Snapchat photos is being leaked after a third-party app used to save people’s otherwise-disappearing pictures got hacked. While some people argue over which third-party app is responsible for the breach, and whether the whole thing is actually a hoax, Snapchat has Continue Reading →

Raise your hand if you loved the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! program as a kid. Yep. Thought so. OK, you can put your hand down. The classic button, the stars, the FREE pizza after you read the books and received the stickers — it was the best, right? To celebrate the program’s 30th anniversary, Pizza Hut created the Continue Reading →

Our upcoming 7th Annual Media Technology Summit is a conference I would personally like to attend, and I think you will like it too. Continue Reading →