Friday, September 28, 2012

35 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for September 28

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Groupon Enters The Highly Competitive Mobile Payment Processing Market
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
The primary differentiator between Groupon Payments and other mobile payment processing systems is price: Groupon is promoting its product as the lowest payment processing system on the market and is offering a lowest rate guarantee to merchants.
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Small Business News from Gaebler.com
Here's the Mobile Payment Landscape
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
In 2012, Gartner expects mobile payment transaction value to pass $171.5 billion worldwide, and that the number of mobile payment users will reach 212.2 million. This represents a 61.9 percent increase in transaction value, and a 32.2 percent increase ...
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Salt Lake City adds parking to list of mobile payment options
Mobile Payments Today
Aparc Systems is implementing the mobile payment option as part of a comprehensive infrastructure upgrade the company conducted on parking meters and facilities in Salt Lake City. By adding QuickPay's mobile payment platform, Apark will give customers ...
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Bank of America tests mobile payment technology
Bizjournals.com
Reuters said that BofA and other large banking companies already earn fees for managing payments and must find new ways to tap into the mobile payment segment, estimated to exceed $171 billion this year. BofA is the largest banking company in the ...
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Singapore mobile payments firm eye PHL banks to launch platform
GMA News
In a statement Friday, Singapore-based SCCP Group said its mobile payment platform Swiff is looking for bank partnerships in the Asia Pacific for its mPOS system, and identified Philippine banks, which it noted use one of the most sophisticated ...
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Will Mobile Payments Spur Gold Rush or Become Fool's Gold?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A lack of merchant support and smartphones with undeveloped mobile payment capabilities have rendered the promise of tapping and paying for products largely unmet in the U.S., according to a Javelin Strategy & Research report on mobile payments ...
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PXT Payments offering its payment app to Boston-area college students
Mobile Payments Today
Boston-based mobile payment and digital wallet provider PXT Payments has announced that it will offer students and merchants its mobile payment app, looped in, this weekend at College Day at Fenway Park. The company will also show off merchandise ...
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Jinshang Bank launches first mobile banking service
China Daily
Mobile payment transactions in China totaled 48 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) in 2011. By 2013, the total amount is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan ($41.74 billion). The coming years will witness a boom in the mobile payment industry, led by mobile ...
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China Daily
NuWallet offers the market another new wallet
Mobile Payments Today
NuWallet Inc., a provider of mobile payment and personal information management applications said its NuWallet application is ready for general use. The app is a "comprehensive, secure and private consumer digital wallet for mobile devices," the ...
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Visa: National payment system will increase costs, hurt customer service
Kyiv Post
Moneylife: PrivatBank in Ukraine selects gemalto for contactless mobile payment. The Kyiv Post is hosting comments to foster lively debate. Criticism is fine, but stick to the issues. Comments that include profanity or personal attacks will be removed ...
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Kyiv Post
ParkMobile: use this mobile app to pay for parking in 11 lots around the city
Technically Philly
Here's to making city parking a bit more painless. Philly's Parkway Corporation recently started using ParkMobile, a mobile payment app that alerts you when your meter has almost run out, Newsworks reports. Download the app here. You can use the app, ...
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360Buy to buy third-party payment provider: report
Morning Whistle
Chinabank has 100.5 million yuan in registered capital, and according to the People's Bank of China (PBoC), on June 27 the company received its online payment license, granting it the right to provide remittance, online payment, mobile payment, and ...
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Morning Whistle
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Taking On Square?
Insider Monkey (blog)
And as smartphones are becoming point-of-sale devices, there has been a push for digital purchase software, and Square, GoPayment by Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU) and PayPal Here have taken the lead in digital and mobile payment processes. When there ...
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Insider Monkey (blog)
A bellwether for the future of mobile payment solutions worldwide, SCCP Group ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
A bellwether for the future of mobile payment solutions worldwide, Singapore-based SCCP group signals its strength with the launch of the world's first end-to-end mPOS solution in Asia; global push to the United States, Europe and the Americas underway ...
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Salt Lake City Introduces Mobile Parking Payments With QuickPay
Marketwire (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2012) - The City of Salt Lake and Aparc Systems have partnered with QuickPay Corp., a premier mobile payment platform provider, to make parking payments by mobile phone and other advanced parking ...
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Vodafone NL to put attention,money on mobile internet
Telecompaper (subscription)
In a changing mobile landscape, selling telephony is not enough, Vodafone NL consumer affairs director Bart Hofker told De Financieele Telegraaf. The provider plans to focus on larger data bundles and apps for mobile TV. Hofker referred to mobile ...
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BofA testing smartphone pay
Investor's Business Daily
2 U.S. bank is joining the race to offer mobile payment technology. With mobile payments startup Paydiant, Bank of America (BAC) is conducting a pilot program. The technology lets customers pay at a store by scanning an image with a smartphone like an ...
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The Blagger's Guide to: NFC
B&T Marketing & Media
In the meantime Apple has positioned an application called Passbook, as an alternative mobile payment method for the iPhone5. The application's technology is interestingly QR code based. Considering the very limited success of QR codes to date and the ...
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The Morning Download: Demand for IT Workers Is Strong, Even in Spain
Wall Street Journal (blog)
CIO Journal's Clint Boulton takes a look at how one CIO–Tim Theriault of Walgreens–has started to prepare checkout systems in 8,000 stores for the arrival of mobile payment powered by near-field communications. Those communications chips create a link ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Announcing the Launch of LevelUp White Label
Technology Digital (press release)
And up until now, if you wanted that, you basically had to build a whole mobile payment, loyalty and security infrastructure up from scratch. Doable... but hard. (Trust us, we'd know.) Luckily, starting today, you can have your cake and eat it too. And ...
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Companies fight to control access to the online bazaar
CBS Moneywatch
... companies such as Amazon (AMZN), Yahoo (YHOO), Facebook (FB), and Groupon (GRPN) are battling to make themselves the gateway to that greater marketplace. Has Amazon left money on the table? Why Groupon has joined the mobile payment hunt ...
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The future of computing? It's Minority Report: Gartner
Memeburn
Memeburn: How do geo-fenced and mobile payment technologies affect business and how do you see these themes playing out in the future? PS: I think we, right now, are in a massive battle of mobile payment systems and alternative transaction systems for ...
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Memeburn
How to prevent hackers from wiping your Android phone with a single link
Digital Trends
For instance, T-Mobile pre-paid users dial #999# to see their balance. That's USSD. However, USSD can support more sophisticated applications like mobile payment services — in fact, that's one reason some developing nations are further along with ...
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Digital Trends
Pingit now Barclays' 'best' digital acquisition tool
Marketing Week
Foulds added the average order value of each transaction is £70, higher than current NFC mobile payment services, which are usually capped at about £20. Pingit has also seen an "unprecedented demand" from the corporate sector, which underpins ...
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Retail Groups Battle Visa Over Records in Swipe-Fee Case
Businessweek
Shinder served as a lawyer for Discover Financial Services (DFS) in the interchange fee suit, according to court records. His firm, Constantine Cannon, is also advising a mobile-payment venture, the Merchant Customer Exchange, he said in a Sept. 25 ...
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Blogs7 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Bank of America testing QR Code scanning mobile payment system in
By Brian Heater
Mobile payment is still a bit of a wild west at the moment, and seemingly every technological and financial institution has a dog in this fight. Bank of.
Engadget
WordPress Mobile Payment Gateways Let You Reach Customers ...
By tschoegl
Use WordPress mobile payment gateways to allow your customers to pay from anywhere.
Wordpress Tutorials, Themes,...
Bank of America testing iPhone payment system | TUAW - The ...
By Mel Martin
Reuters reports the bank is using technology from Paydiant, whose mobile payment solution is in trials with several banks. The system works by printing a QR Code on a receipt or price tag. It's scanned with an iPhone or some Android models ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
It's hip to be Square: Mobile wallets are hitting their stride ...
By Diane Walter
Back to Square: Starbucks has their own mobile payment app, and processes over 1 million mobile payments a week. Square will extend Starbucks' current mobile payment offering by allowing consumers to pay with their phone using any ...
iMediaConnection Blog
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Exploring Mobile Payment Options ...
By alex
As customers seek more ways to pay for purchases without using real cash, alternative payment methods are rising in popularity and demand. Debit cards and.
Daily Political
NuWallet, Available on iPhone and Android-Based Phones, Gives ...
By WDM Group PR Network
... 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NuWallet, Inc., a mobile payment and personal information management application provider, has released the patent-pending NuWallet Application for general use, and is available for the iPhone and Android-based ...
Press Releases
The Pantry Inc. Launches Forecourt Media Trial : Convenience Store ...
By CSD Staff
"It is clear that Gilbarco understands the significant role of forecourt media and evolving mobile payment technologies, and how to help us most effectively make the transition to EMV-certified equipment," Lemerise said. "The Pantry is a ...
Convenience Store Decisions

Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Apple snubs emerging mobile payment standard - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe often quotes a merchant saying NFC stands for "Not For ...
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Gemalto Expands Mobile Payment Software Solution with Western ...
Gemalto's LinqUs Mobile Payment Platform has been certified through Western Union's Mobile Vendor Program to offer end users new options to send and ...
www.gemalto.com/php/pr_view.php?id=1377
Mobile Payment Options for Your Business
Mobile payments can give small business owners new options when receiving payments.
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