Sunday, July 10, 2011

Starbucks Mobile Payment App Gets 3 Million Users

Starbucks Mobile Card appLess than three months after Starbucks introduced a way for customers to pay for grande lattes using their mobile phones, the Starbucks Card Mobile app has been used by more than 3 million people, the company recently announced.

Starbucks Vice President Brady Brewer later called it 'the nation's largest mobile payment network,' according to a report from Mashable and USA Today. Starbucks rolled out the app on Jan. 19, 2011. It can be used in all of its 6,800 company-owned stores in the United States, plus another 1,000 locations inside Target retail centers.

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