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Report: LG Including MST for Mobile Payments on G6

Tim October 27, 2016 41

The last time we discussed LG's place in the mobile payments ecosystem, it was reported that the company's White Card would feature an IC chip. That was in May. Well, it's late October now, and apparently, LG has abandoned all plans for that payments system,...

Fitbit Acquires Coin’s Wearable Payments Platform, Will be Used in Future Products

Tim May 18, 2016 3

This morning, Fitbit announced its acquisition of the wearable payments platform from Coin, the payments startup that released a universal credit card replacement. According to Fitbit and Coin, the acquisition will include, "key personnel and intellectual...

LG G Pay “White Card” Could be a Credit Card Like Coin

Tim January 28, 2016 27

Reports of G Pay, LG's mobile payments solution, surfaced in October of last year, but according to the latest intel, we could see the launch take place at MWC next month. G Pay will materialize into what LG is calling the White Card, a mobile credit card-...

Plastc Tries to Convince You Why Credit Cards are Still a Good Idea

Kyle October 7, 2014 106

Apple and Google may be betting on NFC as the future of consolidated payment, but ubiquity is far from guaranteed; many, many businesses need to upgrade their point-of-sale terminals, which could take years. That is why startups like Coin have looked to...

Coin Finally Apologizes to Backers After Attempting to Sweep Delay News Under the Rug

Kellen August 24, 2014 53

As a crowd-funded project, what's the best way to completely piss off your hundreds of thousands of backers over night after having given them nothing but positive vibes for almost a year, even when you are days from launching your product? Well, you do what...

Coin is Already Delaying Its Release, Will Only Let 10,000 Backers Beta Test Until Spring 2015

Kellen August 22, 2014 58

A couple of weeks ago, Coin - the credit card to replace all credit cards - told us that it was ready to ship to backers and that its companion Android app would arrive by September 25, about a month after the iOS app. Today, things have changed drastically,...

Coin Shipping Info Comes to Backers Next Week, Android App on September 25

Kellen August 14, 2014 66

Coin, the crowdfunded credit card that wants you to leave all of your other cards at home, is inching closer to its "Summer" shipping date. In an email to backers that was sent out this morning, the Coin team announced that next week, backers will receive a "...