Good news online shopaholics, your tchotchke-buying ways are getting a couple of enablers in the form of American Express and Verizon Wireless. The two titans of industry have teamed up to integrate
AMEX's PayPal-like Serve platform into the operator's phones and tablets in the next few months. The service will work by linking your existing mobile number to a Serve account, speeding up the checkout process and ensuring you never second-guess that impulse buy. Sure, this isn't the
NFC-chipped, Isis future Big Red promised, but it's a good stopgap for virtual spendthrifts.
Continue reading Verizon Wireless to tie American Express' Serve into mobile numbers, keep your credit card holstered
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