Less 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.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Starbucks Mobile Payment App Gets 3 Million Users
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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