Friday, June 8, 2012

38 Breaking "Mobile Payment" News Stories for June 8, 2012

LevelUp Raises $12 Million As Part of Larger Fundraising Round to Expand ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Part of a larger round of fundraising, the $12 million in financing will support the rapid growth of LevelUp, the mobile payment app which is now available at more than 3000 merchant partners in 8 US cities, including well-known fast-casual chains like ...
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Cambridge's Scvngr raises $12M for mobile payment app
Boston Herald
By Ira Kantor Cambridge-based startup Scvngr said today it has raised $12 million in funding to support the "rapid growth" of its mobile payment app LevelUp. Scvngr raised the money with help from existing investors Highland Capital, Google Ventures, ...
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Scvngr raises $12m as it looks to take its LevelUp mobile payment app national
Boston.com
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Scvngr, a Boston technology company that develops games and payment apps for smartphones, said Thursday that it has raised $12 million in funding from such investors as Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, ...
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Forget the check-in, SCVNGR one-ups Foursquare with big raise for mobile ...
VentureBeat
Leveling up in status, Boston-based SCVNGR has picked up $12 million in funding as part of a two-part, extra-large fund raise to help its one-year-old, burgeoning mobile payment service LevelUp become a leader in the space. SCVNGR, which seems to scoot ...
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SCVNGR Seals $12M
Private Equity Hub (press release)
SCVNGR, maker of the mobile payment app LevelUp, has raised $12 million in new funding. Existing investors Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Balderton Capital, and new investors Continental Investors and Transmedia Capital provided the ...
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Canada must move quickly to be a leader in mobile payments: CIBC's Jim Prentice
Sacramento Bee
By CIBC QUEBEC CITY, June 7, 2012 /CNW/ - CIBC (CM: TSX) (CM: NYSE) - Participants in the Canadian mobile payment space, including financial institutions, wireless providers, networks and regulators, must act now and put a renewed focus on clients if ...
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Facebook rolls out new, simple mobile payments for developers around the world
ITProPortal
Facebook has begun to roll out its new mobile payment system, which aims to simultaneously enable users to make purchases more simply and developers to monetise their apps more easily. This update to Facebook's mobile payments allows users to pay for ...
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LevelUp Grabs $12M From Highland, Google Ventures To Take Its Mobile Payment ...
Centralia Chronicle
As Jack Dorsey's mobile payment system continues to find legs, all the major players have been rushing to bring their own solutions to market. Believing mobile payments are the future, Seth Priebatsch (of SCVNGR fame) and team launched LevelUP, ...
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CARTES 2012 examines mobile payments and security in the Cloud
EUbusiness (press release)
"Mobile Payment and Security in the Cloud are two of the major challenges facing smart technologies, and authentication in particular, over the next five years. As CARTES is the industry's key event in terms of trends and innovative technological ...
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POS in Your Palm
Convenience Store Decisions
In today's ever-evolving world of mobile payment technology, anyone with a mobile phone can take credit card payments, from a neighbor running a garage sale to an entrepreneur building a small business. Now, this payment acceptance technology is ...
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LevelUp Offers 0% Payment Processing Rate, Making "Interchange Zero" Dream a ...
BostInno
It has to become a ubiquitous mobile payment solution not only before other direct competitors get there, but also before the big brands get fully into the game. This morning we reported that the company has raised another $12 million, ...
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SCVNGR brings in $12M Series D round
Mass High Tech
By Kyle Alspach, Boston Business Journal Boston's SCVNGR said Thursday it's raised a Series D round of $12 million to fuel "rapid growth" nationally of the company's LevelUp mobile payment service. The funding — the first close of a larger planned ...
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LevelUp tops up its bank account with $12M in new funding
Mobile Payments Today
SCVNGR, the Boston, Mass-based startup behind LevelUp mobile payment, has added some significant funds to its kitty, announcing today that it has raised $12 million in funding. The money is coming from existing investors Highland Capital, ...
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What's Actually Interesting About LevelUp: Seth Priebatsch on Money & Merchants
Xconomy
Just under a year old, it's already the second-largest mobile payment network in the US, behind Starbucks, and is active in eight cities with 3000-plus merchants participating. The startup recently moved across the river to bigger digs in Boston.
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Heartland Payment Systems(R) Named to FORTUNE 1000 List for Third Consecutive Year
MarketWatch (press release)
Beyond its Durbin Dollar initiative, Heartland continues to grow its payments processing product suite with the launch of its Mobuyle(TM) mobile payment acceptance solution as well as the expansion of its SmartLink managed network services offering ...
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M-Commerce Technologies Trends Discussed in New Mind Commerce Publishing ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
... Innovative Solutions on the Horizon 4.19.1 Context and Location Sensitive Applications 4.19.2 Pay Point Solutions 4.19.3 Swarm Data Mining 4.19.4 Predictions for the Next Generation 4.19.5 Obsolescence of the Wallet 4.19.6 Mobile Payment Methods 5.
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Cash Dethroned by Cards: Print Preview
Credit Union Times
The study also found that payments on mobile devices represented the fastest growing payment segment in terms of sales volume and forecast that mobile payment sales volume will hit $1.4 billion by 2017. "Mobile phone POS growth is hindered by a lack of ...
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Credit Union Times
New research shows that PayPal is central to mobile commerce
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... Conference and Exhibition (IRCE) on June 6, at 3:30 in room 475A. He not only revealed the results of the research, but also made suggestions as to the impact that they will have on mobile commerce over the years to come. Paypal Mobile Payment.
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Mobile Wallet-Ready Merchant Terminals Doubled in 2011
American Banker (subscription)
The growth was driven by a transition in the NFC-payments ecosystem from performing trials to actual rollouts of NFC-ready payment infrastructure in preparation for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payment services. Berg Insight forecasts that the ...
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The Ticker
Boston Herald
Cambridge startup Scvngr said it has raised $12 million in funding, which it will use to expand its mobile payment app LevelUp. Investors included Cambridge's Highland Capital Partners and Google Ventures. Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that the ...
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Tablets make inroads into corporate IT
Financial Times
In the financial services sector, Vantiv, an integrated payment processor for businesses and financial institutions in the US, has already deployed Verizon-supplied tablets as a mobile payment processor for retailers and merchants.
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thoughtbot is Opening a 4 Person San Francisco Office
BostInno
Since its founding eight years ago, thoughtbot has done design and development work for more than 50 startups here in Boston, including work on SCVNGR's LevelUp mobile payment app, MIT and Harvard's EdX, and Where's mobile platform (which has since ...
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Coming your way: The money revolution
Conservative Home (blog)
In any case, Kenya's electronic money revolution is heading our way: "In the UK, the Payments Council—a coordinating body for the financial industry, set up in 2007 by government order—has begun working on a national mobile payment infrastructure.
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BlackBerry's vision of customer service's future is bright
AGBeat
These are all current technologies, using GPS, geo-fencing, and mobile payment systems, some of which you can already use without pulling out a credit card, like TabbedOut, and collaboration tools as simple as Skype. Augmented reality (AR) has existed ...
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Death To The Cliché Landing Page
Search Engine Land
Like this specimen for mobile payment processing (redacted to protect their identity): The analogy of these types of landing pages is that they're like pick-up lines. They're shallow, optimized simply to "close the deal." And, frankly, most people ...
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Blogs8 new results for "Mobile Payment"
How about Mobile Shopping and how to handle mobile payment?
By Marcio
How about Mobile Shopping and how to handle mobile payment? Posted by Marcio at 3:26 AM Friday, June 8, 2012. Hi Guys,. Recently mobile shopping is a buzz and all the big giants are planning to do it (based on their recruiting plan).
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Gartner Sees Good Times Ahead For Mobile Payment | The Agency
By TheAgency
According to Gartner, consumers around the world will make USD171.5bn worth of payments through their mobile devices.
The Agency
LevelUp Grabs $12M From Highland, Google Ventures To Take Its ...
By Rip Empson
As Jack Dorsey's mobile payment system continues to find legs, all the major players have been rushing to bring their own solutions to market. Every day there's a new headline about mobile payments solutions, yet in spite of all the noise, ...
TechCrunch
Sovereign Bank introduces mobile wallet promotion - Mobile ...
By Rimma Kats
In addition, LevelUp recently announced that it has raised $12 million in financing to grow its mobile payment app. "Our customers are at the center of everything we do and as proximity payments continue to evolve, we will look for ways in ...
Mobile Commerce Daily
Mobile advertising and e-commerce revenues
By Sarah
Adwords on mobile, Buy from smartphone, e-commerce revenues, Google GoMo, mobile advertising, mobile advertising industry, mobile industry, mobile payment gateways, mobile payments methods, payment searches from mobile, ...
Onbile Info
The importance of standards | Snapper
By mikiszikszai
If we take a look around the world and here in New Zealand, there are a number of companies who have announced 'Pilots' where NFC mobile payment technology is trialed by a small number of participants. These pilots have remained as ...
Snapper
Wireless: Biggest Tech Flops of the Year (so far)
By Wireless
Some of today's flops may ultimately emerge on the plus side of the ledger (I'm not sure I'd bet against the success of NFC-enabled mobile payment technology in the long term). But Purewal's catalog of duds will give you a good idea of where ...
Wireless
LevelUp Raises $12 Million As Part of Larger Fundraising Round to ...
LevelUp Raises $12 Million As Part of Larger Fundraising Round to Expand Mobile Payment Product. ... LevelUp Raises $12 Million As Part of Larger Fundraising Round to Expand Mobile Payment Product ...
ITbriefing.net

Web5 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Payment Processing Goes Social
Merchants ready to accept credit cards for their business should consider the future of mobile credit card processing. Call Merchant Account 877.305.4943 ...
www.acceptcreditcardsus.com/mobile-payment-processing-go...
The Melt adds sizzle to mobile-payment model - ABC News
A fast-casual dining chain with national ambitions aims to rewrite the future of eating and technology. The Melt — whose founder, Jonathan Kaplan, sold his ...
abcnews.go.com/Technology/melt-adds-sizzle.../story?id...
Card Not Present.com In-App Mobile Payment Provider Launches ...
In-App Mobile Payment Provider Launches HTML5 Version. June 4, 2012. ZooZ, a mobile payments company that enables in-app payment on iOS and Android ...
cardnotpresent.com/.../In-App_Mobile_Payment_Provider_La...
OnlinePaymentNews » Mobile Payment Device Square Usage ...
Square (the payment device for mobile phones) is being used by a variety of business types to accept credit card payments. The newest sectors to make use of ...
www.onlinepaymentnews.com/mobile-payment-device-square...
Mobile Payment Gateways | Onbile Info
... mobile advertising industry, mobile industry, mobile payment gateways, mobile payments methods, payment searches from mobile, purchase from mobile ...
www.onbile.com/info/tag/mobile-payment-gateways/



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