Tuesday, August 7, 2012

37 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for August 7th, 2012

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Mobile payment options catching on quickly for small companies
Arizona Republic
If all goes as planned, customers of family-owned Ben White Florist in Austin, Texas, can start buying flowers this month by swiping a smartphone at checkout. Representatives working for Isis, the mobile-payment company behind the technology, have been ...
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Want to Do Mobile Payments? Here's a Free Tablet
New York Times (blog)
The free-gear offer is just one of the tricks that start-ups are experimenting with to push their mobile payment services. Scvngr, the start-up that offers a mobile payment service called LevelUp, recently eliminated its transaction fee and is instead bringing in ...
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Phone cash beats money in wallet
NEWS.com.au
But the trial is only one example of new mobile payment technology introduced into our pockets. The Commonwealth Bank is already selling credit-ready Apple iPhone cases for payments on the go, apps such as Kaching and ANZ's goMoney let users pay ...
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MTN Mobile Money record 9.5 million transactions in two years
Myjoyonline.com
The forums was jointly organized by MTN Ghana and Joy FM to find ways of making cashless financial transactions like the use of mobile payment systems, smart cards, direct money transfers, and other e-payment technologies more accessible to lots of ...
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Myjoyonline.com
Gemalto to launch Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in Singapore
e27
The consortium led by Gemalto today announced its readiness to launch mobile payment services using the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the implementation of the ...
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Do you need a hacker-proof wallet?
MSN Money
Meanwhile, card data loaded onto a mobile payment platform like Google Wallet is even more secure from such methods. As Wisniewski notes, unlike a contactless card, the payment data on your phone can't be read without you entering a PIN code. As such ...
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Neutrino, QuickPay link suite of apps through mobile payments
Mobile Payments Today
Mobile app developer Neutrino Media Group announced it has joined with mobile payment platform QuickPay Corp. to develop a new suite of consumer mobile applications called ROYCE that will be powered by QP QuickPay. Consumer applications in the ...
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BANK OF EAST ASIA : BEA Extends Mobile Transaction Capability to All iPhone ...
4-traders
This value-added feature has been created by utilising the JETCO Mobile Payment Gateway to facilitate credit card payments. BEA is the first bank in Hong Kong to offer such flexibility to non-customers of the Bank, and the new function will first be introduced ...
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Now you can pay with a smartphone using a Samsung Galaxy S3
Herald Sun
How the mobile payment trial works. - Optus provides a phone SIM card securely programmed with Debit MasterCard details - Users insert SIM card into a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone - The smartphones use the Google Android Westpac TAP app ...
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Westpac trials MasterCard mobile payments
TechDay.co.nz
"MasterCard's vision of a world beyond cash is being realised as organisations like Westpac take bold steps toward a mobile payment future." The announcement follows the news that New Zealand is on track to becoming a cashless society after MasterCard ...
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TechDay.co.nz
Corethree launches Core Engine m-wallet, a platform to drive a cashless society
The Next Web
Corethree, the firm that works toward making more services mobile, has released 'm-wallet', a mobile payment infrastructure for clients with solutions built on Core Engine, its mobile application platform. Core Engine is a distributed content management ...
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The Next Web
GoPago Offers Merchants Free Tablets, Service
MediaPost Communications
When it comes to transactional costs, GoPago Live is charging a fixed 2.85%, which is slightly higher than the rate charged by other mobile payment systems, like Square Register (2.75%) and PayPal Here (2.7%). Square and PayPal are not giving out iPads ...
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MediaPost Communications
Research and Markets: mobileYouth Report 2012: Mobile Money
PYMNTS.com
An in-depth look into Safaricom's success with M-PESA helps reveal how operators can develop mobile payment services as a new revenue source and also lower churn in the process. Key Topics Covered: I. Executive Summary. II. Global Mobile Money ...
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Google Wallet draws interest but no decisions from Amex
QR Code Press
Nothing is official quite yet between Amex and the mobile payment program. In the Google Wallet blog, on the first of the month, it was suggested that there was a relationship between itself and American Express that was much more solid than the actual truth.
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QR Code Press
Pay-by-cellphone still more hype than reality
Pacific Daily News
"Several inhibitors will remain, preventing the technology from reaching critical mass," writes Thomas Husson, an analyst at Forrester Research in a mobile payment report released last week. Called near field communication, or NFC, the technology enables ...
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Success of cashless initiative dependent on reliable identity management, says ...
BusinessDay
He applauded the development of the Mobile Payment Services Sector (MPSS) which has achieved remarkable feats which includes the licensing of Mobile Payment Service Providers (MPSP) e.g. Pagatech, Fortis Mobile, UBA/Afripay, GTBank, eTranzact.
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Neutrino, QuickPay partner on mobile apps development
Telecompaper (subscription)
Multi-media and application development company Neutrino Media Group and mobile payment platform provider QuickPay have launched a joint venture to develop Neutrino's new suite of consumer mobile applications under the name Royce powered by QP ...
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Corethree intros m-wallet with m-payment options in UK
Telecompaper (subscription)
Corethree has launched a mobile payment infrastructure for customers with services built on its Core Engine mobile application platform. The Core Engine m-wallet allows users to register their payment card details once, and re-use them across multiple ...
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Forrester: NFC adoption still a few years off
Mobile Payments Today
Everytime I get an email coupon from Papa Murphys, the … Photo Gallery. 472. http://global.networldalliance.com/new/images/slideshows/show472_thumb6977.jpg. Barclaycard pilots a new mobile payment app. Barclaycard pilots a new mobile payment app ...
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Why Google Needs to Take Over Development of YouTube on iOS 6
Gotta Be Mobile
Hopefully, with freed up resources, we may see Apple venture into other areas, such as mobile payment and NFC technologies. Regardless of whether Apple or Google killed YouTube, the new player developed by Google may be something that will be good ...
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Gotta Be Mobile
Apple Purchases AuthenTec for $356 Million: Brings Fingerprint Technology to ...
Midsize Insider
Although company representatives have yet to make a formal statement about the acquisition, analysts believe that the fingerprint technology will be used in an upcoming iPhone mobile payment service. AuthenTec, a Florida-based company, Fingerprint ...
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Elecom's NFC Keyboard For Android Smartphones Is The World's First
CrazyEngineers VoiCE
When it comes to NFC, mobile payment is what comes to our mind at first. Many of us were expecting a lot from the NFC technology. Implementing it in keyboards always looked like a good choice, because they have a plus point over the classic bluetooth ...
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TuneIn closes $16M round, mobile listeners up 267% year-over-year
Fiercemobilecontent
Google tightens up Android app policies, bans intrusive ads · American Express: We never agreed to add our credit cards to Google Wallet · Rumor Mill: Isis kicking off mobile payment trials this month · Google Wallet expands to the cloud with support for all ...
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PayPal wants to be here, there and everywhere
VentureBeat
I asked Marcus where he thought that mobile payment figure would be in five years. After getting the customary warning from a PayPal PR representative who was sitting with us, advising Marcus not to project numbers, Marcus said that in five years the lines ...
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VentureBeat
Little guy's win against credit card companies, priceless
National Post
Small business owners may benefit from mobile payment technology, but it needs to be clear to both merchants and consumers which form of payment is used, and merchants must be able to choose which ones they will accept. The Code of Conduct also ...
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National Post
Merchant Warehouse Announces RSPA's RetailNOW Contest Winner
Equities.com
The company also spotlighted their partnership and integrated solution with LevelUp, a loyalty and mobile payment solution. "This year's RSPA RetailNOW show was the perfect venue for the live debut of Merchant Warehouse's newest innovation, Genius," ...
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QR codes eliminate the need for exact change for parking
QR Code Press
According to a press release by Michael Doherty, the managing director of Parkmobile, "Parkmobile is very excited to launch our mobile payment parking service in Burnley." Doherty went on to say that "With this technology, customers no longer have to ...
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QR Code Press
Smart, Western Union launch remittance service with rewards
Philippine Star
Funds transferred to Smart Money electronic wallets – which are linked to the account holder's Smart mobile phone – can also be used for mobile payment of utility bills (Meralco, Maynilad, PLDT, etc.), reloading Smart prepaid accounts, and money transfers to ...
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Blogs5 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Protean Payment | EMV will Crash and Burn in the US
By Chris Bartenstein
Merchants (especially larger merchants) correctly recognize mobile payment as a huge opportunity. Mobile and contactless payment will ultimately edge out magstripe cards, but not on terms that make little sense to merchants and certainly ...
Protean Payment
GHANA : MTN Mobile Money record 9.5 million transactions in two ...
By Emmanuel Okoegwale
The forums was jointly organized by MTN Ghana and Joy FM to find ways of making cashless financial transactions like the use of mobile payment systems, smart cards, direct money transfers, and other e-payment technologies more ...
Mobile Money Africa
Holding on to Banking Customers in the Mobile Wallet Age ...
By Melody Smith Jones
76% of these consumers are either currently using or intend to use mobile banking and mobile payment services. These consumers can be segmented into two main market groups: Techno Shoppers (27%): Consumers attracted to shopping ...
Perficient Financial Services Blog
PayPal shopping experience made easier: Credit card scanning ...
By lizhen
With the acquisition of the mobile payment start-up Card.io, PayPal has moved forward in improving the shopping experience for consumers and merchants when using the [...]
The Wall
Smartphone and Tablet Shopping on the Increase, TV Ads Still Top ...
By bizmonthly
However, that number is expected to rise as better mobile payment systems come online and consumers get more comfortable with making payments with their phone or tablet. Using your mobile device to research an item before purchasing it ...
The Business Monthly

Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Payment gateway | LinkedIn
Mobile Payment gateway. I m working on an app which includes m-commerce. For this, please suggest a mobile payment gateway for android platform... 6 days ...
www.linkedin.com/.../Mobile-Payment-gateway-86481.S.139...
GEMALTO CONSORTIUM TO LAUNCH SINGAPORE MOBILE ...
GEMALTO CONSORTIUM TO LAUNCH SINGAPORE MOBILE-PAYMENT SERVICES. Attachment: (The following press release from Infocomm Development ...
www.bloomberg.com/article/2012-08.../ahZ2QKzjjqW0.html
Mobile Payment: RP - League of Legends Community
I've been having issues with this for a while. I have enough credit for the rp and the texts i need to send back. Basically, i choose how much i want, i get a text, ...
euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=789209
Partnerships to be Part of Successful Strategy in Mobile Payment ...
Market players forge cooperation to accelerate the deployment of m-payment offerings.
www.newswiretoday.com/.../Partnerships_to_be_Part_of_Succ...



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