Thursday, May 10, 2012

StorefrontBacktalk: MasterCard Aims To Take Mobile Wallet Rivals Apart

News3 new results for NFC Mobile Payment

MasterCard Aims To Take Mobile Wallet Rivals Apart

StorefrontBacktalk

Ironically, while MasterCard's PayPass Wallet for NFC-equipped phones got most of the attention, that's still largely a pipe dream—MasterCard hasn't even talked any mobile operators into giving it access to the NFC chip. But the online payments effort ...

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GSMA Announces New Developments for Mobile Asia Expo
MarketWatch (press release)
Topics to be addressed in the Mobile Asia Expo conference include applications, devices, embedded mobile, mobile advertising, mobile broadband, mobile health, mobile Internet, mobile money, mobile operator strategies, network evolution, NFC, ...
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Identive Group Announces Preliminary First Quarter 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
The company's products, software, systems and services address the markets for identity management, physical and logical access control, cashless payment, NFC solutions and a host of RFID-enabled applications for customers in the government, ...
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28 Breaking Mobile Payments New Stories May 10, 2012

ePaymentNews                       28 new results for "Mobile Payment"


The mobile payments mess: no one's winning, but we're all losing
The Verge
By Dieter Bohn on May 9, 2012 02:51 pm 97 Comments It's past time to just come out and say this: the mobile payment ecosystem is a confusing mess. There are a half-dozen legitimate and competing solutions for payment, just as many for digital wallet ...
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Visa President Bullish on Mobile Payments as V.me Goes Live
Auctionbytes
At the same time, Visa and other financial services companies have been moving aggressively to develop their own mobile payment services. Visa's is called V.me, which the firm just debuted with a beta launch this week after having offered a preview ...
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Auctionbytes
Cards and Payments in Asia-Pacific
Sacramento Bee
By Reportlinker The Asia-Pacific region is becoming more cashless, since card reading instruments have reached saturation point in some countries, including Australia and Singapore, and mobile payment implementations are being introduced across the ...
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MoZeus Worldwide Develops New SMART Activator Mobile Payment Processing System ...
Albany Times Union
MoZeus Worldwide, creator of the experiential marketing SMART Activator application, recently launched the SMART Donator mobile payment processing system to improve cause marketing campaigns. The SMART Donator, a part of the SMART Activator platform, ...
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Who will win the mobile payment wars?
Memeburn
By Graeme Lipschitz: Columnist Mobile payment has been a massive technology talking point over the past two years as hardware manufacturers wizen up to the fact that more can be done with their products and banks realise that going to an ATM or, ...
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AuthenTec Launches Smart Fingerprint Sensor for Mobile Payment Security
AZoSensors
By Will Soutter AuthenTec, a provider of mobile and network security, has launched a new smart fingerprint sensor that has been optimized for mobile commerce applications using NFC-based mobile payment security. The AuthenTec AES2750 sensor features a ...
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MXit trials WiFi payments
ITWeb
Africa's largest mobile social network has developed its own 'geo- fenced' mobile payment system, which uses WiFi for close-proximity transactions. According to MXit, staff members have been trialling Gust, a mobile application running on Apple's ...
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ITWeb
Could the Samsung Galaxy S3 give mobile payment the push it needs?
Think Money
By Joel Stanier The soon-to-be released Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of a number of new mobile phones to feature NFC technology, which allows quick payments with a simple 'wave' of the device over a payment point. The technology has been around for years, ...
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Think Money
Softbank and PayPal form joint venture for mobile payment services (Japan)
Wireless Federation
Softbank and PayPal have come together to offer mobile payment services in the country. According to reports, the venture is worth $25 million and will be headed by the director of Softbank Mobile, Hiroaki Kitano. As per a report by the register, ...
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MasterCard joins mobile payment market
XLN Telecom
The mobile payment market is growing rapidly. Informa Telecoms & Media says that revenues from mobile phone-based payment systems are expected to reach $37 billion (£24 billion) by 2016. Barclays has already launched several mobile services this year, ...
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VISA President: we've "moved beyond" NFC
SlashGear
"NFC technology has been the global mobile payment standard technology" noted Partridge, "this is a critical step," through "VISA has moved beyond this method" with V.me by VISA. This V.me platform has users "removing the friction" with mobile payment, ...
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SlashGear
Galaxy S III is the Official London 2012 Olympics Phone
Tom's Hardware Guide
It's actually part of a collaboration with Visa that will see the Galaxy S III equipped with the credit card company's payWave mobile payment application. Samsung and Visa sponsored athletes and trialists will be provided with the phones which can be ...
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Singapore tops Mobile Payments Readiness Index, Philippines second in ...
SGentrepreneurs (press release)
Singapore is the most mobile payment-ready nation in the world, according the the Mobile Payments Readiness Index by MasterCard. Philippines came in second in Southeast Asia, followed by Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
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PayMate launches PayPOS, a mobile app for POS card payments
VC Circle
PayMate is a wireless transactions platform provider with a mobile payment platform that allows users to link their mobile phone to a bank account, credit card or a prepaid account, turning it into a secure payment tool. The company has operations in ...
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VC Circle
2012 Mobile Payments & Commerce Convergence Summit
PYMNTS.com
The options available to mobile payment executives will be explored as leaders and innovators illustrate how mobile payment systems have advanced, what customer relations opportunities exist at each stage of the payment process and the technology ...
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PayPal and Softbank announce new joint venture in Japan, mobile app
Engadget
By Anthony Verrecchio posted May 9th 2012 3:31PM PayPal has joined forces with Softbank to bring its mobile payment system/digital wallet to Japan. PayPal Here uses an encrypted card reader -- like its BFF Square, and more recently, VeriFone -- to ...
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PayPal Invests $12.5 Million in Joint Venture with Softbank in Japan
Auctionbytes
We bring our global online and mobile payment products and 110 million active accounts in 190 markets and 25 currencies; as well as our 14 year experience of running a global payment network that conducts 6 million transactions a day.
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Find Deals, Buy Food, Store Receipts with PayDragon App
Mashable
Quick Pitch: An all-in-one food finding and mobile payment app. Genius Idea: Use PayDragon to find restaurants, local deals, pay for meals and store receipts. Imagine this: When in a long lunch line at a local eatery, simply grab your smartphone to pay ...
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Making money from mobile
Finextra
Every time someone makes a mobile payment, information about purchases, preferences, locations and any other amount of information can be captured. And we all know that data – if analysed and understood - will create knowledge and insight.
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Galaxy S III: Visa Olympic edition
Techwatch
DJ Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing team of Samsung's Mobile Communications Business, commented: "Mobile payment services enabled by NFC technology are gaining momentum around the world. The Samsung GALAXY S III has been ...
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Techwatch
EC proposes new VAT rules for vouchers
Focus News
The growing number of mobile devices makes it necessary to distinguish between prepaid telecom credits (which are vouchers) and mobile payment services (which are taxed differently). Changes in payment technology, notably the increasing use of mobile ...
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Dwolla, Social Money earn praise at national banking conference
DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
One of them listed Des Moines-based Dwolla's FiSync Core Integration as Best Mobile Payment Product (read about it here) and GoalSaver by West Des Moines' Social Money – remember, those are the SmartyPig folks – as the Most Appealing App Encouraging ...
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Consumer sentiment backs mobile wallet
Finextra
Some banks have made headway in providing what the consumers want, notably Barclays with the launch of several mobile payment services lately. However, with the release of the new O2 mobile wallet app in the last couple of weeks, which provides a more ...
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Susie Coupon Via Droid Tap (Photo: Business Wire)
TheStreet.com (press release)
USAT will also be demonstrating additional NFC/Mobile payment capabilities at this event. "USAT's presence at the annual CTIA WIRELESS show—a first for the company—reflects how our cashless and contactless solutions are gaining recognition in the ...
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T-Mobile launches Refill m-payment app with Vesta
Telecompaper (subscription)
Mobile network operator T-Mobile USA and US electronic payment services provider Vesta have launched a mobile payment application. Dubbed 'T-Mobile Refill', the app allows T-Mobile prepay customers to top-up their mobile accounts directly from their ...
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Paypal And Softbank Team Up
ITProPortal
Paypal will also be pushing its triangular dongle in the hope of becoming the dominant mobile payment provider. While it faces competition for the service in the US and Australia, with previously launched Square already being established in those ...
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ITProPortal
Samsung, Visa team up for limited edition Galaxy S III for Olympians
Gant Daily
Samsung said in a statement, "Mobile payment services enabled by NFC technology are gaining momentum around the world. The Samsung Galaxy S III has been created with our human needs and capabilities in mind, and is the new ideal device to showcase the ...
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Cashless Economy: CBN Deploys over 60, 000 PoS Terminals
THISDAY Live
Head, Shared Services Office, CBN, Mr. Chidi Umeano, who dropped the hint in Lagos at a cash-lite event put together by the Lagos Chapter of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), said 14 mobile payment operators licensed in August 2011, recorded 35971 ...
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Blogs11 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Android Smartphone Owners Increase Mobile Payment Application ...
By admin
Port Washington, New York (PRWEB) May 08, 2012. Android smartphone users engaged in mobile payment applications are on the rise, growing 8 percent since August to nearly 35 percent, according to new SmartMeter* data from leading ...
Whistler
The CARTES Exhibition & Conference unveils its key themes for ...
By Marc Jacob
The CARTES Exhibition & Conference unveils its key themes for 2012: Mobile Payment and Security in the Cloud. May 2012 by Marc Jacob. The 2012 CARTES Exhibition & Conference (formerly "CARTES et IDentification") will take place at ...
Global Security Mag Online
*** MCVE Gets Support from Donald Trump Jr on Fox Business ...
By admin
... RockSauce Studios a leading designer of mobile services; and Tabbed Out, a foremost provider of mobile payment services. Rounding out the portfolio are the strategic national relationships with Donald Trump Jr., EVP of Trump Enterprises ...
Stock Market Newsletters
This Story is Your Wake Up Call - Money Morning
By Shah Gilani
Tags: apple mobile payments, google mobile payments, isis mobile payments, mobile payment companies, mobile payment systems, mobile payments conference, mobile wallets, square mobile payments, visa mobile payments, zong mobile ...
Money Morning
Tekedia » Galaxy S3 To Pioneer Mobile Payments For Olympic Games
By Simon Drew
The NFC powered Galaxy S3, which was launched last week at Samsung Mobile Unpacked and has been announced as the official Olympics Phone, will be used to test the new Visa payWave mobile payment app this summer. The Galaxy S3 ...
Tekedia
Find Deals, Buy Food, Store Receipts with PayDragon App – Know ...
By Kate Freeman
If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: PayDragon. Quick Pitch: An all-in-one food finding and mobile payment app. Genius Idea: Use PayDragon to find restaurants, local deals, pay ...
Know All That!
dailywireless.org » New Phones at CTIA 2012
By Sam Churchill
Visa today announced that the Samsung GALAXY S III will be enabled with Visa's mobile payment application, Visa payWave, available for Samsung and Visa sponsored Olympic athletes. The Near Field Communication (NFC) payment ...
dailywireless.org
Galaxy S III Confirmed as Official Olympics Phone | Mobile Phone Blog
By Chris Helsby
... said: "The Samsung Galaxy S III has been created with our human needs and capabilities in mind and is the ideal device to showcase the ease and convenience of Visa's mobile payment application at the London 2012 Olympic Games." ...
Mobile Phone Blog
VatorNews - Foursquare looking to coupons, verify fee to monetize
By Krystal Peak
While checking-in services still have a long way to go, a December 2011 study from Forrester Research found that just 5% of U.S. adults use any location-based check-in services, the growing demand for mobile payment services and loyalty ...
Vator.tv news stories and report
M2M Daily reviews the 2nd M2M World Congress in London | The ...
By The M2M Daily
Mobile payment is future as its only being using by 30% of banking consumers and mobiles. - The ubiquity is the only selling point in M2M. There are no time constraints. No geographical constraints. These are the only drivers at the moment.
The M2M Daily | Machine to Machine...
Smartphones: PinStack.com - Windows Phone app exclusives
Nokia also will work with eBay-owned PayPal on a Windows Phone edition of its mobile payment app. Nokia additionally will team with Rovio Mobile to bring the blockbuster Angry Birds Space to the Windows Phone platform. Rovio is ...
PinStack.com

Web6 new results for "Mobile Payment"
The Morning Briefing: Mobile payment systems | SmartPlanet
The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about mobile and.
www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/the.../26300
Visa and Samsung Partner On New Mobile Payment System
Samsung and Visa Will Showcase Mobile Payments at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
www.newsy.com/.../visa-and-samsung-partner-on-new-mobile...
Mobile Payment Bull Market? - Yahoo! News
Watch the video 'Mobile Payment Bull Market?' on Yahoo! News.
news.yahoo.com/.../mobile-payment-bull-market-29229399.ht...
Techmeme: Flint Launches image-Based Mobile Payment App ...
The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the moment's hottest tech stories on a single page.
www.techmeme.com/120509/p26
Payfirma Opens its Mobile Payment App for Integration | Business Wire
Any mobile developer can now turn their mobile app into a point of sale using Payfirma's payment platform.
www.businesswire.com/.../Payfirma-Opens-Mobile-Payment-A...
Mobile Payment System - YouTube
Get paid on the fly with this mobile payment system. Install an android app or scan a qr code ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u58rywtjESA



Access IS becomes IATA partner for Airline NFC Adoption Acceleration

News1 new result for "Near Field Communications"

Access IS becomes IATA partner

Security Document World (press release)

Data input technology company Access IS has become an International Air Transport Association (IATA) Strategic Partner to help develop a standard to assist the airline industry's acceleration of the adoption of Near Field Communications (NFC) ...

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Delineating the Mobile Value Chain: A Holistic View of Mobile Payments

News2 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Delineating the Mobile Value Chain: A Holistic View of Mobile Payments
PR Web (press release)
Systems based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology are examined first, and then those based on Quick Response (QR) codes are reviewed. The report profiles a major participant in the mobile payments market for each point along both value chains.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 announced as London 2012 smartphone
PanARMENIAN.Net
Only athletes sponsored by Samsung and Visa will be issued the smartphone, letting them buy merchandise and goods at thousands of retailers throughout London with the built-in NFC chip. "Mobile payment services enabled by NFC technology are gaining ...
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PanARMENIAN.Net



NFC, business opportunities, security and privacy issues

Web3 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Paypoint plc : PAYBYPHONE ADDS NFC TO MOBILE PAYMENTS ...
PayByPhone adds NFC to mobile payments for Ottawa's parking spaces Ottawa becomes the first Canadian city to incorporate Near Field Communications.
www.4-traders.com/.../Paypoint-plc-PAYBYPHONE-ADDS-N...
NFC, business opportunities, security and privacy issues | Security ...
The NFC technology is widely used in many areas and the main applications that can benefit from its introduction are: Payment via mobile devices such as ...
securityaffairs.co/.../nfc-business-opportunities-security-and-pr...
Search Engine Marketing Secrets - Visa confirms mobile payments ...
If the trial is a success then it could be a major PR coup for Visa and Samsung as they seek to promote the use of NFC mobile payments. In March we reported ...
seo.daedalusautomotive.com/.../visa-confirms-mobile-payment...



Samsung Galaxy S III Olympic Smartphone Looks to Ignite NFC Interest

News1 new result for "Near Field Communications"
Samsung Galaxy S III Olympic Smartphone Looks to Ignite NFC Interest
eWeek
Despite the inclusion of Near-Field Communications (NFC) technology in a number of handsets, and backing from dozens of major retailers, as well as credit card companies, wireless carriers and mobile phone makers, the technology has yet to find much ...
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CTIA 2012 recap

News4 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
MasterCard Rolls Out PayPass Wallet
Zacks.com
For instance, the latest technology that functions on near field communication (NFC) process. The consumers can now make secure payments and transfer funds through the NFC-enabled smartphones. Going forward, the company should be able to enhance its ...
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CTIA 2012 recap
Android Central
We also saw MasterCard trying to get into the mobile payment game, with NFC and one-click Internet shopping. We hope they meet with success, but we hope even more that all the various players can get together and give us an NFC wallet solution that ...
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RewardLoop Raises $1M In Series A Round For Mobile Loyalty Programs
Auctionbytes (press release)
The company has built a future-proof offering with support for Near Field Communications (NFC) peripherals, the standard powering the next generation of mobile payments. "When we started RewardLoop, it was clear that mobile represented a powerful way ...
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Sony Xperia sola Android phone (preview)
PC World Magazine
This claims to offer higher sensitivity and less image noise in low light areas than traditional mobile phone cameras. Unfortunately, the Xperia sola doesn't have a front facing camera for video calling. The Sony Xperia sola includes an NFC (Near Field ...
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Flint Launches image-Based Mobile Payment App, Raises $3M Series A

News3 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
AuthenTec Introduces New Fingerprint Sensor Targeted For Secure Mobile Payment ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
Optimized for NFC based smart phone architectures, the AES2750 can interact directly with payment applications within the secure element and provide direct NFC radio control based on positive authentication of the user. "AuthenTec's AES2750 provides ...
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Fight against online fraudsters intensifies
Irish Times
Pascal Burg, a director with financial strategy consultants Edgar, Dunn Company, feels that in the long-term mobile-based payments may, in fact, be safer. Burg presented a study on payment trends in which he told how near field communication (NFC) ...
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Irish Times
Flint Launches image-Based Mobile Payment App, Raises $3M Series A
BetaKit
The race to find the mobile payments solution that works best for every type of business is on, and San Francisco-based Flint Mobile thinks it has the ideal offering for small businesses who operate mostly on the go. Flint's new app for iPhone debuts ...
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BetaKit



Neustar Expands Into LBS

News              2 new results for "Near Field Communications"
Neustar Expands Into LBS
Wireless Week
The phone can then use Near Field Communications or a bar code to make a purchase. Location is inherent in the network information but Foster said the ability to refine the user information with demographic profiles like household income and age make ...
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Remote display technology lets users fully experience cloud content
EDN.com
Any of several wireless technologies like Near Field Communications (NFC), Wi-Fi or one of the new variants of Wi-Fi, such as Wi-Fi Direct, could be implemented at the transport/physical layer in this stack, but what will be essential to widespread ...
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EDN.com

Samsung Olympic phone features NFC, mobile payments

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Samsung Olympic phone features NFC, mobile payments
Mobile Payments Today
The new phone is NFC-ready and enabled with Visa's mobile payment application, Visa payWave. All Samsung- and Visa-sponsored athletes at the London games will receive one of the devices so they can make mobile payments throughout London.
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Auckland Mobile Payment Pilot Harnesses NFC

Web1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
Auckland Mobile Payment Pilot Harnesses NFC PaymentsSource Article
A mobile payment pilot launching this month in New Zealand will enable a small group of participants in Auckland to use NFC-equipped mobile handsets to pay ...
www.paymentssource.com/.../auckland-mobile-payment-pilot-...



Nellymoser Expands Beyond QR Codes with Biggest Ever Mobile Campaigns Using NFC

News2 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Nellymoser Expands Beyond QR Codes with Biggest Ever Mobile Campaigns Using ...
Broadcast Newsroom
First Major Print-to-Mobile Campaign with NFC (Near Field Communications): Wired Magazine selected Nellymoser to build the first major mobile-activated print campaign that used NFC. The Lexus advertisement for the new 2012 Lexus GS included an ...
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Samsung, HTC, Toshiba, LG Show Off Smartphones, Tablets, More at CTIA
eWeek
That has changed significantly over the past couple of years, with the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets, and the billions of dollars wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile have spent to upgrade their network ...
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