Foursquare cofounder and CEO Dennis Crowley is dreaming up new, simplified ways to provide his location-based service. In this video, Fast Company's Austin Carr checks in with Crowley, and discovers why his Glass is more than half full.
Hint: It'll be later than if you lived in Africa. Josh Reich, CEO and founder of banking service Simple, discusses the future of mobile personal banking in America.
LevelUp is eyeing 250,000 new merchant locations for its mobile payments tech through a new partnership with the biggest payments player you've never heard of.
"We just thought a lot of people would come up and say, 'I'm going to pay with my phone,'" says chief digital officer Adam Brotman. "We didn't realize a lot of customers were going to come up and say, 'I'm going to pay with Square.'"
About 7,000 Starbucks locations offer a supposedly simple system for letting customers pay with credit and debit cards using Square Wallet. Starbucks even invested $25 million in the payments startup. So why can't employees on Starbucks' front lines make it work?
