"Vimeo took a first step towards pay-per-view Tuesday with the roll-out of a limited slate of six paid-streaming titles. The movies, which include We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists as well as the LCD Soundsystem concert movie Shut Up and Play the Hits are meant to preview different features that will be available to all content producers once Vimeo rolls out pay-per-view in earnest early next year."
An app that'll pay consumers to check store displays. Keeps brands up to date with the stores and checks up on them by paying consumers that post up pictures of displays (anonymously).
L'Oreal is an example used.
Isis is expanding a program that lets mobile users pay for vending machine purchases via their smartphones with a loyalty tie-in that rewards repeat users.
The new program provides free products based on points earned by smartphone users who pay at participating vending machines with the Isis Mobile Wallet.
But, while willingness was just five percent for computer access, it rose to 16 percent on tablet and 12 percent on mobile. Also encouraging - those aged 16-24 and 25-34 are most willing to pay (13 percent and 11 percent, respectively), compared with just five percent of 35-54s and just three percent of over-55s.
PayPal's next generation Payment platforms. person to person "bump" Payments and transfers, location based offers that instantly transfer real dollars to your PayPal account for use in a certain store, barcode scanning with price referencing, QR code check-out, instant scan to Pay from barcodes to skip the cash register line and a full post-checkout money management platform that let's you choose how to Pay, after you've actually paid for it.
This made me realize two things:
Apple just destroyed the carriers attempts to get a cut of the multibillion $ digital payment pie (in the original NFC vision the carriers were the gatekeepers of the encrypted transactional data and wanted their pound of flesh).
Apple pay sets new NFC security levels (tokenization and biometric I.D.) that all other OEM's and Android will have to scramble to equal.