Wallet In a hole in your pants there lived a wallet.Not a nasty, dirty, wet wallet, filled with the receipts and cigarette papers and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, boring wallet that fit nothing and there nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Baggizmo wallet, and that meant lots of gadgetry.It had a perfectly flat folder design, with a programmable NFC chip installed.The wallet… Read More Things are going incredibly well for Ledger these days.People find bitcoins, ethers and other cryptocurrencies exciting again.And the French startup just raised a $7 million Series A round to make hardware security devices ubiquitous.MAIF Avenir, XAnge, Wicklow Capital, GDTRE, Libertus Capital, Digital Currency Group, The Whittemore Collection, Kima Ventures, BHB Network and Nicolas… Read More Well howdy, partner!How’s your Django app deployment going?Jackson Wayne makes leather goods with a decidedly old-timey, pre-WWII/post-Pony Express bent.Founded by a former lawyer, Andrew Lynch, the style is based on “old pictures of lawyers and their briefcases” that Lynch found while running is law practice.

Lynch’s inspiration came from a leathery past.“I… Read More If you have an iPhone other than the 6 Plus or 6S Plus, chances are that you run out of battery pretty frequently.In a world where background updates, location tracking, and 24/7 bluetooth constantly drain our batteries, it’s not unheard of to run out of juice just a few hours into your day.Most people have recruited battery packs, car chargers, or battery cases to help… Read More The increase of smartphone ownership in India is fueling the rise of mobile wallets in India.bitcoin wiki money supplyOne company leading the charge, MobiKwik, has topped up its own funds with a $50 million Series C round announced today.bitcoin ottawaRead More UK-based mobile wallet app Yoyo Wallet has quietly brought their mobile payment technology to the U.S.bitcoin football bowl

and has been stealthily rolling out services with select partners in a private beta.The company is planning its official launch in the first quarter of 2016.Beyond basic card payments, the Yoyo wallet provides loyalty programs and rewards offerings it can automatically deliver to… Read More Apple just introduced a few new updates to the Apple Pay service at the WWDC conference in San Francisco.Alongside adding your usual debit and credit cards, Apple Pay now lets you add store cards as well as loyalty and rewards cards.bitcoin opiniaWith the help of PassBook, the Apple Pay also knows exactly which card you need when you’re in a given store and presents the right option.bitcoin pill reviewThat said… Read More The Internet of Things promised us a deeper connection with our objects.bitcoin banned countries

We would be hugging our toasters, marrying our fridges, and sleeping with our bathroom scales.But nothing out there so far could talk back to us until the Woolet.The Woolet is a wallet that contains a small beacon that connects to your phone.When you leave (or lose) your wallet, the phone will buzz to let you know.Read More More news When I leave my home, I check that I have three things: keys, wallet, phone.How long will it be until the first two are obsolete?My wallet has only three things I actually need: credit cards, cash, ID.Any American with an iPhone 6 has already obsoleted credit cards, courtesy Apple Pay.Any Kenyan, Senegalese, etc. with a phone has long obsoleted cash, courtesy M-Pesa, Orange Money, etc. Read More Just ahead of Apple Pay’s public release, a top credit card provider, Capital One, has rolled out a new mobile wallet app for cardholders that will work with Apple’s forthcoming mobile payments platform to provide users with detailed information on their Apple Pay transactions, in addition to balance rewards access, and other features.

The app was soft launched on iOS earlier… Read More In an effort to help widen bitcoin’s reach and create a simpler experience when dealing with the online currency, KryptoKit, makers of the Bitcoin wallet browser extension, launched RushWallet, a new easy-to-use bitcoin wallet that works on all web browsers and mobile devices that doesn’t require any login credentials.Read More Amazon’s first attempt at its own mobile wallet application, designed for use at the point-of-sale, has made a quiet debut on the Amazon Appstore and on Google Play.However, the current implementation of the new “Amazon Wallet” application is fairly barebones – it doesn’t yet support mobile payments or the ability to store credit cards or debit cards.Instead… Read More In the sci-fi show Almost Human, everyone has a bitcoin wallet.More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and popular indie merchant mobile payment provider Square is the latest to accept the cryptocurrency.

In an announcement today on their blog, which isn’t an April Fool’s Joke pushed early Square assures us, the company notes that bitcoin can be… Read More Lemon, the makers of the mobile wallet by the same name, is today releasing a new mobile payment tool whose goal is to allow the app’s users to make purchases from Lemon Network merchants without having to continually re-enter their credit card information.This is an attempt to solve a major pain point on mobile, where many retailers and other merchants have been slow to transition… Read More BillGuard, the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011 runner-up offering credit and debit card users protection against fraudulent charges, is today formally announcing its integration with Lemon’s digital wallet application.The integration was actually soft-launched a couple of weeks ago, where it appears to users as a toggle switch beneath any supported credit or debit card stored in… Read More Wallaby Financial, a startup that’s building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when charging purchases, has just closed a seed round of $1.1 million.

The round was led by Founders Fund Angel and included participation from WI Harper Group, SLP Ventures, Lion Wells Capital and other individual investors… Read More Facebook just acquired Acrylic Software, a Vancouver, CA-based startup that developed two desktop and mobile apps: Pulp, a personalized newspaper app for Mac and iPad, and Wallet, an app that lets you “sync, store and secure your digital life” for Mac and iOS.Both of these apps got a good amount of press when they launched, but for the most part, the company has flown under the radar.Read More As we predicted yesterday, Google has just announced the official launch of Google Wallet.Google Wallet, if you recall, allows you to pay for products in the real world by tapping your NFC-enabled Android phone against a compatible card reader.Now, there’s a bit of a catch: even if you’ve got an NFC-enabled Android phone, you might not be able to dive into Wallet just yet.Google… Read More Back in September of 2009, I was sent a wallet to review.