Friday, May 11, 2012

31 Breaking Mobile Payment News Stories May 11, 2012

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Wallet, Wallet Everywhere: Making Sense of the Mobile Payment Wars
TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | May 11, 2012 | + There's a cold war going on in the technology world. As smartphones become ubiquitous and online shopping grows, tech companies and payment companies are arming themselves for battle over how people ...
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TIME
BRIEF: Boloco brings in mobile payment technology
Chicago Tribune
The mobile payment technology, incorporated into Boloco's cash register system, can be used by customers with iPhones or Droids at all 18 Boloco locations by holding their smartphone up to the LevelUp scanner next to each register.
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Retail Week report: Mobile payment
Retail Week
Retail Week's new report on mobile payment examines why retailers are playing catch-up when it comes to enabling their customers to shop using their smartphones. It's hard to keep up with how quickly developments in the mobile space are moving.
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Mobile Payments Expected To Surge (INFOGRAPHIC)
Huffington Post
Mobile payment technology is making it unnecessary to carry a wallet or maintain a bulky cash register at your checkout counter. By using devices and apps like Square and Google Wallet, small businesses are getting paid faster and customers are making ...
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Isis mobile payments adds American Express
TG Daily
American Express has just made good on its promise to support the mobile payment platform Isis. The biggest competitor to Google Wallet has just joined forces with American Express to have the three biggest credit card issuers already flipping the ...
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TG Daily
PayAnywhere Mobile Payment App and Credit Card Reader Now Available In ...
Wireless Developer Network (press release)
PayAnywhere (www.payanywhere.com), a leader in mobile point of sale solutions, today announced availability of its highly anticipated mobile payment application and credit card reader for BlackBerry smartphones. With a complete set of mobile payments ...
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Singapore emerges top to accept mobile payment technology
Channel News Asia
By Kristie Neo | Posted: 10 May 2012 2144 hrs According to the MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), Singapore hit an overall score of 45.6 compared to an index average of 33.2. Singapore outstrips 34 other countries to clinch first place.
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4 Reasons We Need Cash
Huffington Post
With the increasing popularity of electronic money transfers via online and mobile payment services such as Google Wallet, some are predicting that cash, and even credit cards, are permanently on their way out. But even if that does happen, ...
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Mobile money firms boost revenue opportunities
Coastweek
A survey released by MasterCard on Monday indicated that Kenya leads developing nations in willingness to adopt mobile payment services. The study said mobile money in Kenya come as a solution to a population in need of fast and secure method of ...
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Sky-mobi Limited Launches New Android Products at Global Mobile Internet ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... supported by Sky-mobi's industry leading operational platform, including information data centers with up to 99.96% reliability, 24-hour client service, industry leading download speeds and fully integrated, seamless mobile payment capabilities.
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Lenovo Teams With VeriFone For POS Payment System
ChinaTechNews.com
China's Lenovo Group and America's VeriFone Systems have jointly announced that the two parties will provide ThinkPad Mobile POS mobile payment solution to retailers in the United States. Based on Lenovo's tablet computer, ThinkPad Mobile POS system is ...
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Mobile Payments Are at the 'End of the Beginning'
Auctionbytes
Beyond the important matter of customer adoption, mobile payment providers face an array of other challenges associated with building out their network of merchants and partners, defining roles and responsibilities across the ecosystem, and navigating ...
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Obama and Romney taking mobile payment donations
TECH.BLORGE.com
by John Lister Both leading candidates for the US presidency are using a mobile payment device for collecting doorstep donations to their campaigns. Their respective teams are each using a system created by the founder of Twitter.
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Isis Mobile Wallet app to support American Express cards at launch
Mobile Burn
Isis, the mobile payment joint venture between AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile, won't be launching until later this year, but that hasn't stopped it from signing up partners to be ready for when it does launch. Today, the firm announced that it ...
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Isis solidifies American Express support
SlashGear
... I mean it's going to chew up Google Wallet and spit it out like a piece of bad meat – has just joined forces with American Express to have the three biggest credit card issuers already flipping the switch with its mobile payment platform.
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100m newly 'banked' people: What mobile money has done in a decade
Bizcommunity.com
It's pretty much accepted wisdom that Africa has been at the forefront of mobile payment tech for a while now. But how many of you knew that the first mobile financial service in an emerging market went live 10 years ago in Africa?
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Canadian Mobile Payments Adoption Ranks Second in the World
Techvibes (blog)
MasterCard recently revealed the MasterCard Mobile Payment Readiness Index, which analyzed the state and adoption of mobile payments across 34 countries worldwide. The Index takes into account three types of mobile payments, which are person to person ...
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Amex puts its cards in Isis mobile wallet
Mobile Payments Today
Until now, American Express hasn't had a very compelling mobile payment story, at least not when it comes to the point of sale. It hasn't offered anything like products from larger rivals MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard just announced its new digital ...
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How Facebook Apps Boost Lagging Mobile Profits
Mobiledia
For its part, Apple's easy-to-use mobile payment system helped build its iOS and iPad apps empire, which make billions. Taking a page from Apple, Facebook will need to set up a simple mobile payment system if it has any hope of approaching Apple's ...
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ISIS Mobile Wallet adds support for three American Express cards
The Verge
While ISIS has managed to build up a pretty solid line-up of partners prior to launch — the service is actually a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — it remains to be seen whether or not consumers actually want to use mobile payment ...
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Galaxy S3 Smartphone features
LetsGoDigital
Secure mobile payment is also accessible with the Galaxy S3 through advanced Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The mobile gaming experience is enhanced through 'Game Hub,' providing access to a large collection social games, while 'Video Hub' ...
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Best of CTIA Wireless 2012
LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
Here are the best products that made our list in seven categories–Smartphone, App, Security Service, Enabling Technology, Accessory, Car Tech and Mobile Payment Service. The Samsung Galaxy S III is the kind of device that reminds you that someone is ...
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LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
LTE to make Voice and Data Services Cheaper
IT News Online
We own niche and prestigious conference properties in the new generation technology arena such as VAS Asia, LTE India, Broadband Tech India, Enterprise India, Cloud Computing India, Data Centre India, Green Telecom India and Mobile Payment India.
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mobile phones will revolutionise banking sector
Mozo.com.au
Many Aussies are concerned that mobile payment technology is not as safe as using their plastic, but MasterCard Australia's head of innovation Matt Barr says this is not the case. He suggested mobile payment systems are actually more secure than credit ...
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Issues and Leaders With Don Longo: Tony Kenney
CSNews Online
Smartphones and mobile payment platforms allow us one-to-one communication that is superior to the traditional pump toppers, window signs, etc. Longo: Please comment on the most significant developments relating to the convenience store industry and ...
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CSNews Online
USA Tech unveils wireless, cashless, contactless telemetry and M2M solution
Retail Customer Experience
The program delivers a Susie's Lemonade coupon to a mobile phone in real time when a purchase is made at the Susie's Lemonade vending machine. USAT is also demonstrating additional NFC/Mobile payment capabilities at the event.
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MasterCard gives a sanity check to mobile payments
TelecomTV (registration)
At the global level, MasterCard says that its MPRI highlights a couple of important global themes that can help all interested mobile payment players orientate themselves as market takes shape. The first is segmentation: "While each market operates ...
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Live from the CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans
ConsumerSearch Productopia (blog)
Visa and Mastercard were demo-ing their mobile payment systems (V.Me and PayPass) which aim to make online and in-person transactions just that much easier. Meanwhile, smartphones were in abundance - many of which are not yet available in the US And ...
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CBN Targets 63m Savings Accounts by 2020
THISDAY Live
The 117-page document, which was prepared by the Roland Berger Strategy Consultant team, outlined the branch model, retail agent led model, mobile payment led model and the client empowerment model, as some of the strategies it intends to use to ...
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Venture capital deals
Fortune (blog)
based provider of image recognition and mobile payment solutions, has raised $3.3 million in additional Series B funding from Citi Ventures at a $130 million post-money valuation, according to VentureWire. It's an extension to the company's $25.5 ...
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Executive proposes to harmonise VAT rules on vouchers
Europolitics.info
The new rules already make a clear distinction between prepaid telecoms credits, which are vouchers, and mobile payment services, which are taxed differently. The executive's proposal also sets common rules for the distribution of vouchers in ...
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Blogs5 new results for "Mobile Payment"
100m newly 'banked' people: What mobile money has done in a ...
By Staff Reporter
It's pretty much accepted wisdom that Africa has been at the forefront of mobile payment tech for a while now. But how many of you knew that the first mobile financial service in an emerging market went live 10 years ago in Africa? Celpay ...
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RewardLoop Nabs $1M to Roll Out Real Time Purchase Data Tools ...
By Saroj Kar
The company mobile loyalty platform is also integrated and compatible with NFC and QR-codes mobile payment systems. "When we started RewardLoop, it was clear that mobile represented a powerful way to transition loyalty programs from ...
SiliconANGLE
Telemedia360: Europe gets Connected
By Telemedia 360
How cabs all take some form of mobile payment and how my hotel communicated with me via my mobile rather than shoving the bill under my door or on my TV screen. My biggest gripe while in the city of angels was that I couldn't use my ...
Telemedia360
Lenovo Teams With VeriFone For POS Payment System ...
By ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor
China's Lenovo Group and America's VeriFone Systems have jointly announced that the two parties will provide ThinkPad Mobile POS mobile payment solution to retailers in the United States. Based on Lenovo's tablet computer, ThinkPad ...
ChinaWirelessNews.com
China Finally Has Its Own Card Reader for Smartphone Payment ...
By Star Chang
TAGS: China Tech, Android, bank, Card Reader, mobile, payment, POS, Square, U.S.. ken147. If you got bounced transactions I got news for ya son, i got 99bills but yours ain't one. 'iFeng 4S' Hair Dryer Tribute to Steve Jobs ? 'iFeng 4S' Hair ...
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Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Repurpose your smartphone as a mobile payment center ...
Brandy Courtade offers tips for repurposing your old smartphone and turning it into a mobile payment center.
www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/...your.../4949
MasterCard Study Puts Numbers On Mobile Payment Folklore ...
Mobile payment is revolutionizing the payments industry, suggests the widespread sentiment among industry insiders and observers.
www.paymentssource.com/.../MasterCard-Study-Puts-Number...
VeriFone to Announce New Mobile Payment Processing System | IT ...
Startups like Square and PhoneSwipe spotted a lucrative opportunity to empower the smallest of merchants to accept credit card payments, and they've made ...
www.itnews.com/.../verifone-announce-new-mobile-payment-...
Intuit Mobile Payment
Mobile payment technology is making it unnecessary to carry a wallet or maintain a bulky cash register at your checkout counter. By using devices and .
www.huffingtonpost.com/news/intuit-mobile-payment



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