Friday, August 10, 2012

45 "Mobile Payment News" Stories for August 10, 2012

ePaymentNews  for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile payment committee holds promise for more cooperation
GigaOM
Some of the biggest players in the mobile payment space including the four U.S. mobile carriers, Google, Isis, VeriFone and Intuit are joining a new mobile payment committee within the Electronic Transactions Association. It's still too early to say what this ...
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GigaOM
ETA Brings Together Mobile Payment Giants To Form Single Committee
Hot Hardware
With Google Wallet, Isis, Square, NFC and all sorts of other technologies in the mobile payment space finally getting their wings, we could be in for a sea-change that will completely disrupt how we pay for goods. Following news of Starbucks and Square ...
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Hot Hardware
Mobile payment apps allow customers to leave wallets at home
WATE-TV
"We don't even have to have power in the truck, and we can still accept credit cards. You can just swipe the card and it will go right (through the iPad)," said Byron Sambat, co-owner of Savory and Sweet. For the family-run Pups and Pals in North Knoxville, the ...
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Starbucks leads mobile wallet revolution
Examiner.com
Starbucks and payment processor, Square, just announced an agreement in which Square will process all of Starbucks' bank card transactions, and implement a mobile payment system which will allow customers to pay directly from their smartphone.
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Examiner.com
Google, PayPal, and U.S. carriers join committee to increase mobile payment ...
Mobile Burn
The Electronic Transactions Association announced today that it has formed The Mobile Payments Committee, an alliance of companies involved in the mobile payments sector working to achieve their common goals. Though members have competing ...
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Will Starbucks' deal with Square finally make mobile wallets happen?
The Week Magazine
Starting this fall, Starbucks is partnering with Square, the mobile payment start-up, to have the new company process all of the coffee purveyor's debit and credit card transactions. The team-up marks a monumental victory for the two-year-old mobile wallet ...
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The Campaign to Digitize Your Wallet Is Intensifying
New York Times
Seth Priebatsch, chief executive of Scvngr, a start-up that offers a mobile payment app called LevelUp, said the move could risk alienating other big retailers. Square has invited Howard D. Schultz, Starbucks's chief executive, to its board. That would give the ...
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Starbucks Partnership with Square Is a 'Game Changer' for Mobile Payments
HispanicBusiness.com
Even as Hamadeh predicted a wave of new venture capital investment in mobile payment companies, Starbucks said it will put $25 million into Square as part of the partnership. That investment will be included in a funding round that Square has yet to ...
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Payment trade association forms mobile payment committee
Mobile Payments Today
The trade association of the payments industry is launching a new committee aimed at addressing the policy and business issues accompanying the growth of mobile payments. The Electronic Transactions Association announced that its Mobile Payments ...
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Schultz and Dorsey on Why Starbucks Needs Square
Wall Street Journal (India)
Starbucks and mobile payment innovator Square recently announced a partnership that would allow Starbucks customers use Square's technology to pay for their coffee. In an exclusive interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and ...
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Starbucks Signs Deal with Pay With Square
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Starbucks (SBUX) shocked the business world when it announced on Tuesday it will begin a partnership with mobile payment company Pay With Square. The partnership will put Square's automatic payment service in every Starbucks café location ...
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Kapitall Blog (blog)
Starbucks has paired up Square to launch a service that lets customers use their ...
New York Daily News
Starbucks has paired up with mobile payment provider Square to launch a service that lets customers use their smartphones to buy their lattes. "Pay with Square" will be available at about 7000 Starbucks stores this fall, said the java giant, which is investing ...
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New York Daily News
Starbucks adopts St. Louis-born payment gizmo
STLtoday.com
Starbucks plans to add the Square system to its own current mobile payment systems, which use iPhone and Android devices. Those apps let customers pay by scanning a bar code on the phone's screen. Starbucks added those systems over the past year.
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Mobile Payments Are About to Become Standardized. Really Good or Really ...
Gizmodo
It does include other mobile payment participants like Google and PayPal—though it's missing Square, which is now an even humongouser figure in mobile payments thanks to being in every Starbucks. So a lot of the non-carrier muscle is sitting this one out, ...
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Starbucks teams with Square for mobile payments
The News International
NEW YORK: Starbucks is pouring $25 million into electronic payments start-up Square in a partnership that expands mobile payment options at the coffee chain, the companies announced on Wednesday. Starbucks customers will be able to use the Pay with ...
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The News International
PayPal, Google, Verifone And US Carriers Form Mobile Payment Committee
Geeky gadgets
Mobile payments is obviously something that all the major mobile carriers are looking into, PayPal and Google have their own mobile payment systems, and now they have teamed up with Verifone and the major US mobile carriers to form a mobile payment ...
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Geeky gadgets
Square, Starbucks Deal: Could Your Team Do It?
InformationWeek
But Starbucks also has built an infrastructure--with its organization and its technology--to cut this kind of deal. That infrastructure makes deals like this more likely to happen. And it makes it more likely that technology like Square's mobile payment processing ...
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PayPal, Vivo launch Brazilian mobile payment service
Mobile Payments Today
PayPal has taken its partnership with Brazilian telecommunication company Vivo to the next level. The companies announced a partnership aimed at creating a mobile payment solution last year, and now that plan has come to fruition. On the PayPal blog, ...
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Reliance Capital arm launches mobile-based payment system
SME Times
RCAM is the first asset management company to offer the Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) platform to investors for making investments in mutual funds, the company said in a statement. IMPS is a payments platform that allows customers to use ...
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The Meaning of Square: What's So Great About a Cashless Society?
The Atlantic
One small step for vanilla lattes, one giant leap for mankind, is how the world characterized the deal yesterday between Starbucks and Square, the new mobile payment company that, in addition to the iconic square swiper shown above, can identify people ...
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The Atlantic
Mobile Payments Committee Announced: Includes All 4 Major US Carriers
iMedia Connection (blog)
Worldwide mobile payment transactions are estimated to total $171.5 billion in 2012; a 62% increase from last year's $105.9 billion, and could reach $617 billion by 2016, according to research firm Gartner. There's no doubt that mobile payments are a ...
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Google, PayPal, VeriFone and US carriers band together to form Mobile ...
Engadget
In an effort to define a way forward for the mobile payment industry, a large number of heavy hitters have banded together under the umbrella of the Electronic Transactions Association to form the Mobile Payments Committee. Not only does the group include ...
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Starbucks Accelerates Mobile Payments
Hospitality Technology
Starbucks Accelerates Mobile Payments. Starbucks Coffee Company, with its leading mobile payment platform, and Square have announced a broad innovative partnership to bring the best possible payment experience to both sides of the Starbucks counter.
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Starbucks-Square Partnership Could Take Mobile Payments Mainstream
The Epoch Times
Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz announced that the world's largest retail coffeehouse chain will begin to integrate Square Inc.'s mobile payment processing system into 7000 of its store locations in an effort to expedite customer transactions. In addition ...
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The Epoch Times
Starbucks Brewing Major Mobile Payments Effort with Square
Daily Deal Media
To be sure, Starbucks' hugely popular mobile payment app isn't being discontinued. The deal with Square will merely augment the java giant's budding mobile presence and related services. The partnership will enable Starbucks customers to use the "Pay ...
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Daily Deal Media
Starbucks-Square alliance worth $25m
Industry Leaders Magazine
Starbucks had tried to implement its own mobile payment application. The application did not become a big success, but still every week it processes more than a million mobile phone payments. Although the new deal was signed up, the customers will be still ...
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Industry Leaders Magazine
Starbucks Utilizes Mobile Payments Via Square
Zolmax
Most of the companies also provide mobile payment processing tools. The increase of mobile tools in recent years had analysts to predict that consumers don't have to carry their wallets in the future. This can cause a lot of security problems for existing ...
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Zolmax
Smartphone to replace wallet? Campaign to digitize your purse is intensifying
Economic Times
But not everyone is convinced that Square's buddying up with a behemoth like Starbucks is such a good idea. Seth Priebatsch, chief executive of Scvngr, a startup that offers a mobile payment app called LevelUp, said the move could risk alienating other big ...
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NQ Mobile's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
The year-over-year increase was primarily due to the increased customer acquisition costs as a result of more users acquired in the second quarter and higher revenue sharing with mobile payment service providers which is consistent with the increase of ...
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Vesta expands its global mobile top-up services
Mobile Payments Today
Related Content. Square and Starbucks to form mobile payment partnership · Square and Starbucks to form mobile payment … GoPago enters tablet POS market with GoPago LIVE · Rebooted Google Wallet now accepts any credit card · Easy Source ...
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Google, ISIS and U.S. carriers join Mobile Payments Committee
Android Authority
But we're not quite there yet, as neither Google's mobile payment system, Google Wallet, nor ISIS, the Verizon-AT&T-T-Mobile venture, are widely available on existing devices. In fact, the latter is still in development, as the three carriers are yet to offer ISIS ...
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Android Authority
Four Major Carriers Join Google In Mobile Payments Committee
Gotta Be Mobile
The only noticeable thing missing from the Mobile Payment Committee is Square. When Square partnered with Starbucks this week, the two companies formed the largest mobile payment system in the U.S.. We hope this committee comes up with a way to ...
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Top US cellular carriers join new Mobile Payments Committee
TechRadar UK
Unfortunately for the committee's objectives, Square, perhaps the most major mover in the mobile payment playing field, hasn't indicated it'll join the powwows. Given the company's landmark deal Wednesday with Starbucks, the committee might want to see ...
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TechRadar UK
Vantiv gets into the mobile POS game
Mobile Payments Today
Payment processor Vantiv Inc. has introduced its new mobile payment app, Vantiv Mobile Accept. The app, designed for small and medium sized businesses, lets merchants use mobile devices to quickly and securely swipe credit, debit and prepaid cards.
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Vantiv launches Mobile Accept application
Telecompaper (subscription)
Vantiv, a provider of payment processing services and related technology products for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, launched its new mobile payment app Vantiv Mobile Accept. The app enables any merchant to bring Vantiv's payment ...
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TapBase introduces TapPay, TapWallet apps for iPhone
Telecompaper (subscription)
The TapPay application was designed and developed with significant input from small businesses and the functionality extends far beyond the payment processing available from existing mobile payment systems. For example, merchants can use the ...
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Big four US carriers taking part in Mobile Payments Committee along with ...
PhoneDog
The Mobile Payments Committee has plans to help its members figure out form relationships to aid in mobile payment interoperability, work with regulators and legislators on how to form public policy related to mobile payments and teach both consumers and ...
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Blogs4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Vantiv Enters The Mobile Payments Battlefield
By Phillip Parker
You can now add another option to the ever-growing list of mobile payment processing applications. As of today, Vantiv, Inc., has introduced its new mobile payment app, Vantiv Mobile Accept. The application will allow users to accept debit, ...
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Taking Electronic Payments through Your Smartphone: Perfect for ...
By mariachambers
With a smartphone mobile payment app, your phone becomes your payment center. The basics of how this works are the same for all mobile payment services. You enter the amount to charge and hit total. The apps will have settings that you ...
Small Business Can
Google teams with leading US carriers to form Mobile Payments ...
By Élyse Betters
Among the issues the committee is tackling, it will help participants figure out the complex business relationships necessary to make mobile payment options interoperable; help legislators and regulators understand how to develop mobile ...
9to5Google
How Mobile Loyalty Programs Are Revolutionizing Business ...
By Ralph Tedly
Mobile loyalty platforms like these make it easy for large groups to split the tab, and quickly pay the bill via secure mobile payment options. The savvy restaurant can place promotional offers and to the application to entice restaurant orders to ...
Rovin Net

Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Commerce Weekly: Starbucks gives Square's mobile payment a big ...
Harry McCracken points out in a post at Time Techland the partnership will put Square in a much better position to compete on the mobile payment front.
radar.oreilly.com/2012/.../starbucks-square-mobile-paymen.ht...
Big Four Carriers Form New Mobile Payment Initiative (Phone Scoop)
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless have joined a new task force called the Mobile Payments Committee. The Mobile Payments Committee was ...
www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=10936
Vantiv launches mobile payment app
Vantiv launches mobile payment app. Vantiv (VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and ...
www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid...
Square joins Starbucks' largest mobile payment network
Mobile payments is a huge new market that no one is quite sure what to do with yet. Everyone has a different philosophy on how to make it all work, and while ...
www.phonearena.com/.../Square-joins-Starbucks-largest-mobil...



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