Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mobile Payment News Roundup for April 10th

News17 new results for "Mobile Payment"
3 On Your Side: Mobile Payment App Warning
CBS Local
By Jim Donovan PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Mobile payment apps allow you to pay for coffee, food and even other merchandise with the wave of your phone at the register. But is using them safe? 3 On Your Side Consumer Reporter Jim Donovan has learned that the ...
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CBS Local
ID TECH Releases Shuttle, New Secure Credit Card Reader for Mobile Devices
MarketWatch (press release)
CYPRESS, Calif., Apr 9, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- ID TECH, a leading manufacturer of automated data entry, mobile payment, point of sale, and secure payment devices, has launched the sleek and secure Shuttle mobile magnetic stripe reader for ...
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Mobile Card-Processing Machines for Marketers on the Road
New York Times
The mobile payment tools also help protect customers' credit card information, said Philip Blank, managing director for the security, risk and fraud practice of the financial services research company Javelin Strategy and Research.
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Starbucks mobile payments hit 42 million
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And in those past 15 months, it has managed to process 42 million mobile payment transactions. Not bad for a little coffeehouse, right? The Starbucks customer loyalty program is one of the least (financially) rewarding programs that exist.
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Partnership critical to cross border mobile services in Africa
Vanguard
As a next step, RBI introduced IMPS (Interbank Mobile Payment System) to promote real time interbank transactions." Somak Ghosh, Group President, Development & Sustainable Banking, YES BANK said: "Mobile Banking in India will have to be bank-led rather ...
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Pay-By-Phone Apps Are Convenient, But Are They Safe?
CBS Local
To save time, he pays his tab in seconds with a mobile payment app. There's no signing a credit card charge slip, no getting asked for identification. While that's quick and convenient, it has some experts worried. "That's a huge security risk," expert ...
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CBS Local
GoPago launches cloud-based mobile payment service
Telecompaper (subscription)
US-based mobile payments start-up GoPago has launched its cloud-based mobile payment service in San Francisco, Gigaom reports, cting Leo Rocco, CEO and founder, GoPago. The service allows consumers to use their mobile phones to order and pay for goods ...
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New Financing May Help Cities Adopt Smart Parking
Wired News
With sensors and wireless connectivity, the company's technology turns dumb parking meters into a meshed network of smart devices that can interact with smartphones for mobile payment and reservations, and city data centers for tracking and analysis.
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Wired News
The Daily Start-Up: VC Firm Fundraising Gets Off To Good Start In 2012
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Mobile payment start-up GoPago has snagged executives from Google, IBM and Adobe Systems in recent months, more than doubling its senior team to help hit its goal of adding 99000 more merchants by the end of 2013. The goal is an audacious one–and one ...
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Reports show more mobile security concerns
Mobile Payments Today
A USA Today article reported on a couple of new secuirty issues with mobile devices, issues that may open up mobile payment and banking users to serious hacks. According to the story, security firm Cryptography Research demonstrated a hack making it ...
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PayPal Business Offerings Could Boost EBay Stock
TheStreet.com
PayPal has rolled out some additional online and mobile payment options geared specifically to small businesses. Recently, it rolled out PayPal Payments, a suite of payment offerings that provides small businesses with multiple options to accept ...
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ISIS platforms gains momentum over competitors due to slow and steady approach
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ISIS is currently the only mobile payment platform that has struck a deal with all four major credit associations: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover. It also has the backing of six major manufacturers of mobile devices as well as ...
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Selling a City to Tourists Via Hyperlocal
Street Fight
For example, a city agency could create a neighborhood-based promotion on top of mobile payment play LevelUp in which a visitor who shared that they say, ate lunch at a traditional tourist destination, could with a promotion to receive a free round ...
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Street Fight
90 Day Challenge launches Vi-Net Swipe
Black Hills Today
The Swipe (mobile payment processor) is a device that you simply attach to your Smartphone to process credit card information. Swipe makes enrollment on-the-go a part of your business. You'll be able to enroll new Customers and Promoters on the spot ...
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Google's High-Tech Specs Augur a New Vision for Banking
American Banker (subscription)
Mobile payment systems like Square already display users' pictures to merchants for this purpose. Project Glass could be used for other camera-based payments, such as check capture, as well as for person-to-person payments. Imagine a pair of glasses ...
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First-time stumbles lead to later success
StartupSmart
"We believed that the future direction of our business was by allowing mobile payment via technology that we would be partnering with someone with. At the time, we thought that was the way forward for us,'' Christo says. "We had all these people who ...
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Pepper Hamilton | Timothy R. McTaggart Quoted in American Banker on Mobile ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
"To the extent that the user is relying on his or her credit or debit card for a mobile payment, there is a structure already in place for that," Mr. McTaggart said. "That may change when newer technologies emerge where either you're going to pay for ...
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Blogs4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Tap-and-Pay Smart Phones | Saturday Evening Post
By Jeff Bertolucci
The famously secretive Apple has yet to reveal its mobile payment plans. However, the next-generation iPhone, expected to ship by the end of 2012, is rumored to include NFC capabilities. Tap-and-pay options will be limited at first as wireless ...
Saturday Evening Post
3 On Your Side: Mobile Payment App Warning - Philadelphia ...
3 On Your Side: Mobile Payment App Warning. From: CBS Philly - 5:35pm - April 9, 2012. Mobile payment apps allow you to pay for coffee, food and even other merchandise with the wave of your phone at the register. But is using them safe?
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By Lee Polevoi
Announcing the New Intuit GoPayment Prepaid Visa® Card · All About GoPayment's New Card Reader · Getting Started with Your Intuit GoPayment Credit Card Reader · Intuit GoPayment Wins Best Mobile Payment Award at 2011 Mobile ...
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Web6 new results for "Mobile Payment"
3 On Your Side: Mobile Payment App Warning - Yahoo! News
Watch the video '3 On Your Side: Mobile Payment App Warning' on Yahoo! News .
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Isis takes the slow road to mobile payment success
Isis, the joint mobile payment venture between Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, has been taking a slow approach as it heads towards a limited launch in two cities ...
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ValidSoft Expands Mobile-Payment Security With Utiba Deal ...
If fraudsters encounter strong data security when hunting the big game of corporate bank accounts or payment-processor databases, they may shift their attacks ...
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Fandango Breaks Mobile Payment Record with Hunger Games |
If so you are part of the largest mobile payment record. I personally bought four tickets for Friday night and was surprised to see that most tickets collected were ...
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Google Alert - NFC Mobile Payment - ePayment News Blog
NFC Mobile Payment Industry News Blog · Refresh the epayment News Blog … Samsung eyes NFC mobile payments service. Samsung is preparing to enter .
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PayPal Here, Mobile Payment Processing | Pink Tiger Media
PayPal, payment service provider owned by eBay Inc, has finally jumped onto the band wagon to ...
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