Square Inc.’s announcement Tuesday of its new QR code service for restaurants helps bring the contactless technology into the limelight, but it’s only the latest in a string of moves payments ...

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An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This time last year, QR codes were a novelty piece of technology in the US, mostly used as an advertising and marketing tool. But the black and ...

The square barcodes, which users can scan with their phones at parking meters, restaurants and on return labels, are an easy way to direct consumers to a website URL. Unfortunately, they have also ...

My journey with QR codes in payments began in 2012 when I led the digital wallet efforts at Bank of America. We performed a trial with Paydiant and rolled the service out to a few merchants in ...

And, in this corner...before QR (quick response) codes and NFC (near field communications) officially square off; the masses have already dubbed NFC “The QR Killer.” Google instigated the matter in ...