Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Mobile Payment News Briefs: 27 Breaking Stories for May 1st

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XL Chooses TIBCO Software to Power New Mobile Payment Solution for More Than ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Mobile Payment Solution XL is at the forefront of delivering new mobile services, and serves more than 46 million subscribers. Its mobile payment platform will not only bring the advantages of mobile payment to consumers, but allow XL and its ecosystem ...
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SalesVu 2.0 Launches in the US and Canada, Gains Technology Advantage over ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AUSTIN, Texas, May 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Austin-based SalesVu just released its latest mobile payment application, SalesVu 2.0 for iPhone's and iPad's. The new update solidifies SalesVu's technology leadership position as the only mobile payment ...
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Mozido and Tata Consultancy Services Establish Strategic Alliance to Globally ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS and MUMBAI, India, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Mozido and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced a strategic partnership which supports the global expansion of Mozido's unique mobile payment platform, including a robust ...
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Familiarity will make mobile payment feel more secure
Marketing Week
The last few weeks have been no different, as Barclaycard and O2 have made announcements relating to mobile payment technology. Barclaycard released a new 'mobile' payment card that sticks onto the back of a phone, to be used at contactless payment ...
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Marketing Week
The New Pay Phone and What It Knows About You
New York Times (blog)
Mobile payment is common in many parts of the world, and slowly gaining acceptance in the United States, particularly with young consumers. A Federal Reserve survey found those in the age bracket of 18 to 44 represented more than two-thirds of mobile ...
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Mozido, Tata team on m-payment services
Mobile Payments Today
Mozido, a Dallas-based provider of mobile financial services, announced it is partnering with Tata Consultancy Services to support the global expansion of Mozido's mobile payment platform, including an Enterprise Global Cloud Payment Network.
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Most Americans don't plan to use mobile payment systems, says survey
The Verge
By Andrew Webster on April 30, 2012 12:01 pm 86Comments New mobile payment solutions are launching left and right, but if a study from the University of California, Berkeley is any indication, Americans aren't quite ready to start paying with their ...
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Rev Worldwide Adds Key Executives To Growing Operations
MarketWatch (press release)
AUSTIN, Texas, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today Rev Worldwide, a global leader in financial services and mobile payment products for underserved markets, welcomed former GE Capital Executive, Mauricio Benavides, as the Company's Chief ...
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Survey: Most Americans Don't Plan to Use Mobile Payment Systems
Cleveland Leader
Published on 04/30/2012 - 5:29pm New mobile payment solutions seem to be popping up everyday, but according to the results of a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, American's aren't ready to embrace the new technology and start ...
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Download O2 Wallet UK mobile payment app
Phones Review
The way we pay for things and manage our finances are changing quickly recently with the advancement of mobile technology in recent years, and today we can tell you about the availability of the O2 Wallet UK mobile payment app that is ready to download ...
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Metaforic Announces Protection For Android Financial Applications
Sacramento Bee
Gartner forecasts mobile payment transaction value worldwide to grow from $86 billion in 2011 to $426 billion in 2015. Similarly, Gartner forecasts worldwide mobile payment users to increase from over 141 million today to almost 350 million in 2015.
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Why LevelUp Works
BostInno
If a report by the Pew & American Life Project is to be believed, two things are clear: The mobile payment future is upon us, and getting from here to there won't be easy. Pew's report, The Future of Money in a Mobile Age, came out earlier this month ...
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Federal Trade Commission Hosts Public Workshop on Mobile Payments
JD Supra (press release)
Still, the workshop is a resource for anyone who wants to learn more about emerging mobile payment technologies and the issues they raise. The workshop was recorded and is available for viewing here. The first panel included representatives from ...
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TGI Friday's Lets Customers Pay With iPhone, Android
PC Magazine
Currently, 350 of the chain's 600 locations nationwide are now accepting the new mobile payment method. Users can download the app now from the Apple App Store or Google Play. "This new app puts the Friday experience at guests' fingertips – whether ...
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TGI Friday's lets you pay with your smartphone
TG Daily
There are 350 TGI Friday's locations, out of around 650 nationwide, that offer the new mobile payment technology. The special app for the restaurant is available on the App Store and Google Play. This isn't the same kind of mobile payment technology ...
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Survey Says Most Americans Don't Want Mobile Payments
Gotta Be Mobile
Four out of five people surveyed also said they wouldn't use mobile payment systems that gave stores their home phone number or home address. While those surveyed objected to mobile payments being used to track them in stores and transmitting phone ...
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Developing Countries Are Revolutionizing Mobile Banking
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
The story of one such innovation, NPCI's Inter-Bank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS), shows how far ahead India is with this technology. India has a large un-banked population because of the challenge of reach and affordability.
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Google and PayPal resist phone firms' m-payment plan
Parcel2Go.com
Meanwhile, with development of mobile payment platforms offering scope for letting us pay for whatever we want, however and wherever we want – with developers taking a cut each time – it's clear why so many big players are seeming to support freedom of ...
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New mobile remittance corridor from Australia to Nepal
PRWire
mHITs (pronnounced Em-HITS) a pioneering developer and operator of mobile payment services, today announced that it's Australian SMS mobile wallet service has launched an international mobile remittance corridor to Nepal via its affiliate eSewa.
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Google Wallet and PayPal lobby against EU mobile payments
TameBay
PayPal are experimenting with a raft of mobile payment options but also have yet to launch much in the UK barring the Pizza Express iPhone payment app. In addition to PayPal and Google, all the banks as well as Visa and Mastercard want a slice of the ...
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Social spending
Telecoms.com (blog)
This minimal click solution is the Holy Grail being hunted down by all mobile payment players but, again, it's already something that's been nailed by the likes of Amazon and its One Click patent. Charles Damen, VP of mobile billing and payments at ...
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Optimal Payments wins mobile payments award at mGaming Summit
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Earlier this week, Optimal Payments also presented to a packed audience in the eCommerce theatre at Internet World 2012 on the importance of a mobile wallet in multi-channel selling. This included case studies of mobile payment solutions developed for ...
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Mobile services for the poor still a question for technology and innovation
Ahram Online
The final example Simon gave was from Africa, where mobile payment and settlement allowed a whole new range of operations that supported everyone including the poor. George Sharkov, the regional manager of the European Software Institute in Bulgaria, ...
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SalesVu Point of Sale and Mobile Payments for iPad
AppAdvice
To combat Square's low 2.75%, SalesVu negotiated with its partner Mercury Payment Systems to take the risk and go even lower to a flat 2.7% in the US In Canada, rates vary from 1.73% to 3.26% depending on card type, which means it's (sometimes) lower ...
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Mozido Links With Outsourcer
Texas Tech Pulse
Dallas-based Mozido, the developer of mobile payment products which is backed by TomorrowVentures, the venture investment firm owned by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, said today that it has linked with Tata Consultancy Services, the major business ...
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FCC not doing enough to stop bogus billing
msnbc.com
Fraud experts warn that cramming on cell phones will become worse than on landlines, as soon as mobile payment technology takes off. "There's significant potential for cramming fraud on wireless devices," says Linda Sherry, director of national ...
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msnbc.com
Apple released details concerning NFC patents for iPhone 5
QR Code Press
The iPhone 5 will be equipped with an NFC chip that will allow it to be used as a mobile payment device and serve other such purposes. Apple has taken a keen interest in NFC technology because of its ability to facilitate contactless data transfer.
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Blogs12 new results for "Mobile Payment"
The Survey Says… Most Americans Don't Plan To Use Mobile ...
By Ed Caggiani
With the competition heating up in the mobile payment space (Google Wallet vs ISIS), one would think it's something we're all clamoring for. But a recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, concludes that Americans are not quite ...
Michael Vacirca
Auckland to test mobile payment
By Susan
Auckland Transport riders will be able to use smart phones equipped with near-field communications technology to pay transit fares and to make small purchases.
TheTransitWire.com
Payfirma Opens its Mobile Payment App for Integration
Payfirma, the company creating simple, fast, and secure mobile point of sale products for businesses, has opened up its mobile payment platform to developers.
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NRF Urges FTC to Develop 'Mobile Friendly' Regulations - All VoIP ...
By AllVoIPNews
The FTC is in the process of establishing mobile payment rules and regulations and it is feared that they will not parallel the underlying forms of payment and instead these policies might be specific to the mobile innovation. The VP as well said ...
All VoIP News
Square Competitor SalesVu Ups Its Game With New Features For ...
By Sarah Perez
Funding: $600k. SalesVu prides itself on developing innovative mobile and software-as-a-service solutions (SaaS) designed to make a direct impact to the bottom line for mobile and retail businesses. The SalesVu mobile payment solution is ...
TechCrunch
AllThingsD looks at Paypal's new payments app | TUAW - The ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
AllThingsD reporter Lauren Goode spent some time shopping with both Pay with Square and PayPal's new mobile payment app. The two solutions are one of.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Payfirma Opens its Mobile Payment App for Integration - from ...
Payfirma, the company creating simple, fast, and secure mobile point of sale products for businesses, has opened up its mobile payment platform to developers. Any third party mobile application for iPhones, iPads, or Android devices can now ...
ITbriefing.net
ARPU going low: the role of financial services in Latin America
By Pablo Garcia Arabehety
Last December, Starbucks announced that during 2011 it processed 26 million transactions in the US through its mobile payment application. While this news was anecdotal for traditional financial service providers such as banks and credit ...
CGAP Technology Blog
Should Apple Acquire Square and Foursquare?
By Federico Viticci
Assuming Apple would like, someday, to enter the mobile payment scene with the iPhone — perhaps through the oft-rumored NFC — wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to consider an all-iPhone technology that handles payments ...
MacStories
The Monetary Future: Be Your Own Bank: Bitcoin Wallet for Apple
By noreply@blogger.com (Jon Matonis)
This non-dongle iPhone app is especially important now that the 'dongle wars' have heated up between Apple mobile payment competitors Square and PayPal. Ironically with mountains of existing iTunes customer accounts, Apple could find ...
The Monetary Future
Bottom Line - FCC not doing enough to stop bogus billing, consumer ...
By Herb Weisbaum
Fraud experts warn that cramming on cell phones will become worse than on landlines, as soon as mobile payment technology takes off. "There's significant potential for cramming fraud on wireless devices," says Linda Sherry, director of ...
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Web5 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Most Americans not ready for mobile payment systems, The Verge ...
From Yahoo! Finance: Seventy-four percent of Americans surveyed by University of California, Berkeley don't plan to utilize a mobile payment system, The Verge ...
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Mobile payment - Frictional Games
Sad Mobile payment. Hello. I've got a problem, I tried to buy Amnesia (win, linux, mac) by mobile phone. They said I cannot buy Amnesia because my country ...
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How To Use Mobile Payment Collection Technology To Boost ...
By Intermec, Inc. Enterprise investments in mobile automation are enabling field sales and service professionals to complete their tasks faster than ever before.
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Barclaycard launches PayTag mobile payment - Marketing news ...
Barclaycard has launched a contactless payment method called PayTag that works on all ...
www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/.../Barclaycard-launches-PayT...
Payfirma Opens its Mobile Payment App for Integration - pymnts.com
Payfirma, the company creating simple, fast, and secure mobile point of sale products for businesses, has opened up its mobile payment platform to developers.
pymnts.com/.../payfirma-opens-its-mobile-payment-app-for-in...



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