Wednesday, September 12, 2012

36 "Mobile Payment" News Stories Compiled by ePayment News

News27 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Moving to Mobile Payment: Put the Right App in Your Digital Wallet
DailyFinance
More recently, the Merchant Customer Exchange, a proposed mobile payment standard backed by retail behemoths like Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT), announced its entrance into the fray. Now add another to the list. The e-commerce platform Braintree ...
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Apple, iOS 6 & Mobile Payments - One More Thing for the iPhone 5?
Forbes
A few weeks ago I talked about mobile payments and shared my view that Apple (AAPL) will likely not offer its own near-field communication (NFC) mobile payment solution when it unveils the iPhone 5 later this week. There are simply too many players ...
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Forbes
Entrepreneurs: Start preparing your business right now for the mobile payments ...
Washington Post (blog)
Some companies create mobile apps to allow e-commerce pages to be more easily accessed from a smartphone, but mobile payment systems, by offering an incredibly simple way to pay for a product, are significantly better. In person, we use Square ...
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At 25 paise per transaction, Interbank Mobile Payment Service may be the best ...
Times of India
MUMBAI: Micro payment transactions such as payment for local taxi fares and kirana store purchases are set to go cashless with the National Payment Corporation of India on Monday extending the Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) for merchants.
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Retailers Urged to Embrace Mobile
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The mobile payment is very fragmented. Banks are trying to make their own internal ecosystems, carriers are trying to get in, individual card companies are trying to do their thing." According to the report, there is a very large demand from consumers ...
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Fiserv launches SpotPay mobile payment solution
Mobile Payments Today
Fiserv launches SpotPay mobile payment solution. Tags: Fiserv, Mobile Payments, POS. September 10, 2012. Fiserv Inc., a provider of financial services technology solutions, today unveiled SpotPay, a mobile card reader solution. SpotPay was developed ...
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How 'NFC' and Mobile Wallets Will Change the Way Retailers Do Business
Entrepreneur
Related: The Pros and Cons of Mobile Payment Services. Read more stories about: Mobile, Credit cards, Mobile payments, Smartphones, Retail businesses. Jump to Comments. Did you find this story helpful? YesNo. Thanks for making Entrepreneur better for ...
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Entrepreneur
New Payment Processing Services For News Dealers And Newsstands
Equities.com
MDS offers its customers the ability to turn their cell phones into a payment processing center with mobile credit card processing. Their ROAM pay service is Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified, which means merchants can be confident their mobile ...
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NPCI rolls out inter-bank service for merchant payments
Hindu Business Line
Mumbai, Sept 10: National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched an inter-bank mobile payment service (IMPS) for merchant payments. This is aimed at making mobile payments to merchants and enterprises easier. IMPS, a platform created by ...
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Mobile Pay Outfit Shows Off System Made for Charities
American Banker (subscription)
Billhighway, a 13-year-old Troy, Mich., firm that offers accounting, cash management and payment processing to nonprofit firms, plans to join the fray with a mobile payment option that will be showcased this week in New York. The firm will outfit ...
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Fiserv Launches SpotPay Mobile Payment Solution
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Fiserv Launches SpotPay Mobile Payment Solution. Enables merchants to accept card and check payments anywhere, anytime; Available to financial institutions that are part of the ACCEL/Exchange network for use by their merchant and small business ...
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Chinese Banks Need to Focus More on Mobile Banking - Executives
Wall Street Journal (India)
Morris Li Ming Shieh, president of China Guangfa Bank, echoed these sentiments, saying that his bank has already begun to explore innovative technologies with its "smart service" mobile payment options. "Banks here can leapfrog (the stage of building) ...
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Mobile the best opportunity to engage banking markets - Nedbank SA
IT News Africa
We are certainly open to the social media and mobile payment platforms that exist in the market, but far more inclined to see what we can do as a bank… we are mindful of the fact that there are many smart guys out there in the market … but where we ...
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Comment: Walmart is quietly becoming quite the mobile hipster
Retail Week
Walmart has also taken over the MCX retail alliance that wants to try and offer a mobile payment alternative, an effort that includes 7-Eleven, Best Buy, Lowe's, Sears, Target, CVS and Publix. And it put a Google executive on its board of directors.
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Retail Week
NPCI to tie up with Airtel Money soon
Zee News
Till now, the non-banking mobile wallet companies have not come on the interbank mobile payment services (IMPS) platform even though the sector regulator RBI has given its nod. "Airtel Money customers can only transact between themselves but are not ...
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Zee News
Ingenico gets Czech NFC m-payments gig..
Finextra
This pilot is foreseen by Telefonica as the official launch of mobile payment in the country. The contactless technology offers higher convenience together with intuitive and secure payments, addressing the evolving demand of the end users. The 02 ...
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Exclusive: Google Offers Exec Eric Rosenblum Leaves for Mobile Ad Start-Up
All Things Digital
Prior to joining Google, Rosenblum was founder and CEO of Smartpay, a leading mobile payment company in China. He also served as GM of Greater China and Global Strategy GM for RealNetworks. Rosenblum started his career with the Boston Consulting ...
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All Things Digital
HTC 8X Windows Phone 8 coming to T-Mobile
The Droid Guy
When Microsoft shared its plan to pursue mobile payment system, everyone already expected Windows Phone 8 would feature Near Field Communication as long as manufacturers would provide necessary hardware. HTC will hold an event on September ...
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The Droid Guy
These Retailers Are Profiting From the Smartphone Revolution
DailyFinance
Starbucks also targets tech-savvy customers with mobile barcodes, augmented-reality apps, and mobile-payment solutions. Appealing to the mobile customer is a smart plan if you believe new data from Deloitte. As the research indicates, "By 2016 ...
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Inspire Commerce nabs $500000 to launch universal payment platform
The Next Web
Meanwhile, Square, the mobile payment startup from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, recently signed a landmark partnership with Starbucks that includes a $25 million investment from the coffee giant. Image credit: stock.xchng. Join TNW Insider on: Follow ...
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The Next Web
Google Wallet Prepaid Card Program Ending October 17th
The Droid Guy
The company just recently updated the mobile payment service to offer complete compatibility with all major debit and credit cards, so nothing should be an issue here. Google feels that the current Prepaid card Program is pretty redundant because of this.
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Apple to run your purse, no strings attached
Brisbane Times
Google has made tepid steps into this area with Google Wallet and other firms including Visa, MasterCard, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ and PayPal have introduced mobile payment systems and apps. But none has hit on a winning formula yet. Leaked videos ...
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Brisbane Times
Google Wallet discontinuing prepaid cards next month, so spend your money now
Mobile Burn
Being able to add cash to Wallet made the mobile payment option more accessible to users who did not or could not link their Wallet account to a bank card. Going forward, customers will have to link Wallet to an existing debit or credit card to make ...
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HTC's revenues forecast to rebound in Sept.
China Post
The device runs on a 1.5 Ghz dual core Qualcomm processor and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and features mobile payment technology, according to media reports. HTC partnered with KDDI Corp., Japan's second largest mobile ...
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Disrupt SF event lives up to its name
San Francisco Chronicle
He cited a series of concrete examples to date, including Amazon's online model undercutting traditional retailers; Apple and Spotify transforming music sales and distribution; and mobile payment startup Square working to change the way we exchange ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Google Wallet to discontinue prepaid cards in October
CNET
What the mobile payment craze is really about: Coupons! Wal-Mart, Best Buy, others gang up on Google Wallet · 'Dyle' in to watch live TV on your phone. The prepaid card was further hobbled by vulnerabilities that could allow money to be stolen from ...
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QWASI Technology: Automates Apple's New IOS6 Passbook Passes
MarketWatch (press release)
According to Brian Bennett from CNET, a tech media website, Passbook trumps Google Wallet: "Sorry, Google Wallet fans, but Apple may have just pulled the mobile-payment rug from under Android's feet. In signature Apple fashion, the new iOS 6 Passbook ...
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Blogs6 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Payment Madness, What's in Google's Wallet? (Bloomberg)
By Rebecca Sloan
Jon Erlichman reports on the players involved in mobile payment madness. He speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)
Mobilise
Skype to launch operator billing | Bango blog
By Ray Anderson
Because of this, Bango has become the mobile payment platform of choice for the world's leading app stores, operators and content providers. With more than 90 operator connections in place around the world, Bango has launched operator ...
Bango blog
The super-computing phone: AT&T's predictions for devices in 2020 ...
By Kevin Fitchard
The smartphone has already replaced clocks and cameras today, but in the future it will replace wallets and even ATMs as mobile payment and banking services become more sophisticated. Beyond financial transactions, mobile phones will ...
GigaOM
Bar Rafaeli's Startup MyCheck - Changing The Way We Pay ...
By Merav Turel - NoCamels team
MyCheck, an Israeli startup founded in March 2011 and recently backed by Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli, is a mobile payment application, designed to enable customers to pay the bill using their smartphones at any point during the meal.
No Camels
Now, payments to Kirana Stores & Small Merchants can be done ...
By Kaushambi
National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) has extended its Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) to merchants in a bid to facilitate micro payments for service transactions at a cost of 25 paisa per transaction. "There are around 10 ...
Trakin' the india business buzz
Google Wallet Prepaid Card Program to end October 17th ...
By Colton Kaiser
Google has revealed that it plans too discontinue the Prepaid Card Program for early adopters of its Wallet mobile payment service. Because the company recently updated its mobile payment service to offer compatibility with all major debit ...
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Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Fiserv Launches SpotPay Mobile Payment Solution (NASDAQ:FISV)
Fiserv Launches SpotPay Mobile Payment Solution. Enables merchants to accept card and check payments anywhere, anytime; Available to financial ...
newsroom.fiserv.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=705859
Ingenico's iWL2 Series Mobile Payment Terminals Are First Devices ...
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - Sep 5, 2012) - Ingenico (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), leading worldwide provider of payment solutions, today announced that ...
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The Challenge Facing Mobile Payment Mass Adoption | PandoDaily
The Challenge Facing Mobile Payment Mass Adoption. While smartphones have replaced some functions of the physical wallet, Wired argues mobile payments ...
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