Thursday, June 7, 2012

43 Breaking "Mobile Payment" Headlines for June 7th, 2012

SCVNGR finds $12 million more to support LevelUp mobile payment product
Boston.com
But the money will go to support a newer SCVNGR product that seems to be building more momentum: the company's LevelUp mobile payment offering. It lets you pay for retail transactions simply by showing the screen of your mobile phone, and it allows ...
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Mobile payment systems gaining some traction
Hometownlife.com
Now digital payments are about to get even easier for online shoppers and small business with the recent push by companies to offer mobile payment. It started with PayPal HereƆ, a mobile device that small retailers such as taco trucks and street ...
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Rev Unveils RevCOIN, A Mobile Account Solution for Underserved Merchants Worldwide
MarketWatch (press release)
Unlike other mobile payment solutions available today that allow for payment acceptance via card readers, RevCOIN is a comprehensive business solution for underserved merchants allowing for money in and out of the system. Key differences include ...
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The Morning Briefing: Mobile payment systems
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
This morning we're reading about mobile payment systems and implementation. 1.) Facebook rolls out new "low friction" mobile payments for developers in 60+ countries. Following an announcement at the Mobile World Congress this year, Facebook is now ...
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PassportParking Launches Mobile Payment System; First Pay-by-Phone Application ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
CHARLOTTE, NC--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Passport Parking, LLC added mobile payment to their suite of cloud based parking solutions. PassportParking Mobile Pay has been developed to enable providers greater operational efficiency through real-time ...
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PassportParking releases mobile payment tools for providers, commuters
Mobile Payments Today
Charlotte, NC-based PassportParking announced it has launched its new cloud-based mobile payment system for parking. The company said its PassportParking Mobile Pay system has been developed to help both parking providers and the parkers themselves.
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Facebook rolls out new "low friction" mobile payments for developers in 60+ ...
The Next Web
Following an announcement at the Mobile World Congress this year, Facebook is now officially rolling out a new, 2-step mobile payment flow that developers can include in their Facebook apps. This comes as a major improvement to the original, ...
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drchrono Announces Real-Time Health Insurance Coverage Checks and Enables ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"By adding real-time health insurance eligibility information into the platform as well as mobile payment processing, we've provided some simplicity and a little bit of ease to a profession that is undoubtedly stressful on a daily basis.
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Using debit cards online
Bizcommunity.com
PayU has recently joined forces with Oltio, a joint venture company between Standard Bank and MTN, to provide a mobile payment solution, payD, which now enables consumers to make debit card payments through the. Pronounced 'paid', this venture now sees ...
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Drchrono Now Lets Doctors Accept Payments Via Square, View Real-Time Insurance ...
TechCrunch
Drchrono, a startup focused on bringing medical records and more to the iPhone and iPad, is announcing a big update today which introduces mobile payment feature to its platform, as well as a new way for physicians and patients to access their health ...
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QuickBooks Point of Sale Goes Mobile with GoPayment
Accounting Today
By Seth Fineberg Intuit has integrated its mobile payment processing application GoPayment with the latest version of QuickBooks Point of Sale, designed for small retailers. Using QuickBooks Point of Sale 2013, users have access to a free GoPayment app ...
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SCVNGR/LevelUp Raises $12 Million as "Part of Larger Round," Continues to ...
BostInno (blog)
SCVNGR, the Boston-based mobile gaming and payment company and maker of the mobile payment app LevelUp, has raised $12 million from Highland Capital, Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and new investors Continental Investors and Transmedia Capital.
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Facebook Rolls Out New 2-Step Mobile Payments System, Could This Be Part of ...
DecryptedTech
Well Facebook developers have just rolled out a mobile payment system. The new system is called the "low-friction carrier billing" and Facebook developers claim it is only two steps long. You open the offer, tap buy and then confirm. That is it…
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PCI Security Standards Council Announces Keynote Speakers for Asia Pacific ...
CNBC.com
PCI SSC Chief Technology Officer Troy Leach will discuss the latest updates on key technology areas the Council and its stakeholders are working on, including mobile payment acceptance security, point-to-point encryption, cloud computing and ...
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NFC-ready POS terminal shipments doubled to 2.5m in 2011 - report
Siliconrepublic.com
A move from performing NFC payment trials to accelerating the rollout of NFC-ready payment infrastructure in preparation for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payment services is what drove the rapid growth. The global installed base of NFC-ready POS ...
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Siliconrepublic.com
ARM creates JV for secure mobile payments
ChannelBiz
Ian Ferguson, who heads up the server division of ARM, said G&D, a German company that prints the Euro, and Gemalto a French digital security firm will bring additional elements to the mobile payment party. He said, in a meeting in Taipei: "We needed ...
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ChannelBiz
Quemulus Wants to Make Money Transfers Easy
Daily Deal Media
It seems like somewhat of a "David and Goliath" story but Elizabeth Willett, the founder of Quemulus, believes her company can take on mobile payment big-wigs, such as Paypal and Dwolla. It's quite a feat, but Willett is hoping that her company can ...
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Daily Deal Media
Black Enterprise Names PayAnywhere Best in Show
MobilityWire (press release)
PayAnywhere is the credit card processing industry's only enterprise-grade, "pay-as-you-go" mobile payment solution suited for any size merchant. PayAnywhere's mobile point of sale (POS) technology combines the industry's most comprehensive ...
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Acumen Fund Invests in Virtual City to Automate Agricultural Supply Chains in ...
Acumen Fund (blog)
Virtual City is the maker of Agrimanagr, an affordable mobile data management service marketed to agricultural cooperatives and processors that tracks agricultural output from farmer to processor, coordinates mobile payment to farmers, and facilitates ...
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Acumen Fund (blog)
Going Cashless: What's Good for Banks May Not Be Best for You
Knowledge@Wharton
In fact, mobile payment applications have made it possible to complete a purchase without even having a credit card on hand. And paying with a card or smartphone comes with the convenience of having an electronic record of the transaction.
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Knowledge@Wharton
What The Hell? bags Payworld biz
exchange4media.com
Disclosing that they were planning to diversify into money remittance and mobile payment areas, he felt that What The Hell?, with its expertise in the online and digital marketing domain, would give them an edge. Dhiraj Kumar, Director, What The Hell?
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Nuance Dragon ID Unlocks Android Devices By Voice
Gotta Be Mobile
Later it shows the app making a mobile payment for lunch, though it's not clear how it works or if the feature is in the current version. Later the video shows the app recognizing two different voices, and remembering which app the second user was ...
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Revel Systems POS system turns iPad into cash register
ZDNet (blog)
For example, Atlas can be teamed up with mobile payment systems from Square and PayPal. Working with LevelUp, creator of a QR-code based payment system, the Revel Systems solution charges 2 percent per swipe for major credit cards.
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ZDNet (blog)
Best SME Bank
The Asset
In India, ICICI Bank used its leadership position in inter-bank mobile payment services to offer cash management collections for businesses with distributed networks. This was tremendously beneficial to SMEs in achieving last mile connectivity in the ...
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Open Solutions Expands Global Reseller Network with Cardtek Partnership
CUinsight.com (press release)
CredoWork, established in 2009, satisfies the sector's hardware needs while Phaymobile, founded in 2011,develops solutions for mobile payment systems. Open Solutions Inc.® helps community-based financial institutions around the world enrich their local ...
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Fuzhou named National Intelligent Tourism Pilot Cities
China Daily
... Fujian will continue to strive to innovate the developing of the tourism industry and will create systems such as intelligent tourism transportation management, intelligent guides, e-tickets, mobile payment and multi-point communication.
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Blogs11 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Facebook starts roll out of Bango services in new mobile payment flow
By rayand
Following on from Bango's agreement to provide payment services to Facebook in February, Facebook has announced the initial availability of these services to its developers at as part of an improved mobile payments flow. Facebook says ...
Bango Investor Relations
67pc of mobile buyers use PayPal for purchases: study - Mobile ...
By Chantal Tode
The fact that PayPal is dominating as an alternative mobile payment method is not surprising. The company has been aggressively chasing mobile payments transactions through a variety of strategies and has reported that it expects to ...
Mobile Commerce Daily
Mobile Banking: A big Mobile Money step for Bangladesh with bKash
By Hannes@Home
The functionality of existing mobile payment services are limited (typically only offering bill payment and airtime top-up). (Read the following source). That is why the new bKash service launched in collaboration with BRAC bank, conforming to ...
Mobile Banking
New Facebook Mobile Payments Process Reduces Users' Path To ...
By David Cohen
Facebook began rolling out a change to its mobile payments process for mobile Web applications that reduced the number of steps users must go through from up to seven to just two.
AllFacebook
StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Most Consumers Use ...
By Evan Schuman
... the phone to be out of scope. This is basically the crux of the new PCI guidance on mobile payment acceptance, and the whole point of the SRED module (ie to help secure data through encryption to assist with scope reduction). Read more.
StorefrontBacktalk
Paytm Launches Payment Gateway - MediaNama
By Anupam Saxena
The company offers a customized payment platform, which supports all platforms including websites, IVR/voice, WAP/mobile web, mobile payment apps (on tablets, Android, Blackberry, iPhone), and through SMS, and offers Thin-clients, ...
MediaNama: Digital Media in India
Sania-Bhupathi sail into French Open final - in.news.yahoo.com by ...
By ledefur
VeriFone SAIL Review Mobile Payment Processor Has Some Impressive Features – PC World Sign up for the SAIL subscription service at $10 per month, and your per-transaction fees will drop to 1.95 percent per swipe or 2.95 percent per ...
My Blog by ledefur | English,...
Banking View | Asia Pacific banks positioning to lead in the new ...
By Denise Montgomery
Commonwealth Bank's 'Kaching' mobile payment app for iPhone allows users to pay in real time using friends' or businesses' using email addresses, Facebook identification or mobile phone numbers. Kaching comes on the heels of their ...
Banking View
Media & Blog Coverage of OTA12 | Over the Air
By Margaret
Simon Howard, Blackberry: 'Embrace the out-of-the-box elegance: eye candy UI with zero effort'. Thumbnail 38:57 · Over The Air 2012. Saul Zakauskas, Paypal: 'How are Mobile Payment Innovations Disrupting Commerce?' Thumbnail 44:22 ...
Over the Air
Google Wallet: 12 months later
By RuncoDippel366
The rumors and leaks return a piece further, nonetheless it was a year ago today that Google officially revealed its Google Wallet mobile payment service — a platform that the corporate remains betting big on, despite the fact that it could be ...
What News Today
Shipments of NFC-ready POS terminals doubled to 2.5 million in ...
By admin
The rapid growth was driven by a transition in the NFC-payments ecosystem from performing trials to accelerating the rollout of NFC-ready payment infrastructure, in preparation for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payment services.
Internet of Things Event

Web6 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Nigeria trails Kenya, South Africa in payment penetration, says CBN ...
CBN said mobile payment users in Nigeria is 0 per cent, Mexico (25 per cent), Indonesia (40 ...
mobilemoneyafrica.com/nigeria-trails-kenya-south-africa-in-p...
Complete coverage of the Square Mobile Payment Processing ...
All Square Mobile Payment Processing System (3rd Generation) Phone Accessory coverage including reviews, news, lab tests and ratings, product specs , ...
www.pcworld.com/.../square_mobile_payment_processing_sy...
Daily Dose of iQ: PayPal's Mobile Payment Video Stumbles on 2 ...
On May 24, PayPal announced a partnership with 15 national retailers (on top of its previously ...
www.iqmetrix.com/.../daily-dose-iq-paypals-mobile-payment-...
Mobile payment volume to rise 62% in 2012 - Times Of India
MUMBAI: Worldwide mobile payment volume is expected to rise 62% to over $171.5 billion this year from $105.9 billion in 2011, says market research firm ...
articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../31899763_1_mobile-p...
Start-Ups Build the Mobile Payment Ecosystem | Mobile-Financial.com
There's been lots of hype in the North American market recently about mobile point-of-sale (POS) startup Square—and for good reason. The company has made ...
mobile-financial.com/.../start-ups-build-mobile-payment-ecosy...
Global mobile payment transaction value to exceed US$170 Billion ...
Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will this year surpass US$171.5 billion, according to a report by Gartner, world's leading information technology ...
www.humanipo.com/.../Global-mobile-payment-transaction-v...



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