Friday, June 15, 2012

Focused On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets $31.4M

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Mobile Payment Platforms Still In Nascent Stage; Developing World ...
Mobile bloom News
The mobile payment industry is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of 2016, as predicted by several studies. However, the last few decades ...
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Banks' Mobile Payment Services Not Catching On
Trefis
Banks have been increasingly looking at the mobile market in order to provide easy access for customers in a bid to attract more of the tech-savvy crowd.
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Focused On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets $31.4M ...
TechCrunch
Unlike other dongle-based mobile payment services like Square and PayPal's Here which use a card's swipe strip for processing, iZettle has focused on ...
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TechCrunch
Nationz Technologies Licenses MIPS Technologies' Processor ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Nationz is already designing its next MIPS-Based chip for mobile payment ... The 2.4G mobile payment solution standard, originally developed by Nationz, ...
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GlobalCollect implements BOKU's mobile payments platform
Banking Business Review
Global mobile payment of BOKU, operating in 67 geographies through more than 260 mobile network operators provides a potential customer base of up to 4 ...
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MIPS in licensing deal with Chinese chipmaker, shares rise
Reuters
... designer MIPS Technologies Inc said China-based Nationz Technologies <300077.SZ> has licensed its microprocessors for use in mobile payment products.
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ProPay Partners with Payvision to Expand Global Payment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... an industry leader in Merchant Services, End-to-End Payment Security, and mobile payment services, announced today that it has partnered with Payvision to ...
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GlobalConnect selects Boku as mobile billing partner
Mobile Payments Today
GlobalCollect, a provider of online payment services in the e-commerce market, announced today that it has selected Boku as its global mobile payments ...
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Focus Squarely On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets ...
Centralia Chronicle
... API to integrate its payment platform into third-party apps, iZettle, known as the "Square of Europe" for its dongle-based iOS mobile payment system, has even ...
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Research and Markets: The Global Mobile Commerce Payment ...
PYMNTS.com
The Global Mobile Commerce Payment market has also been witnessing increasing uses of mobile payment for digital goods and ticketing purchase. However ...
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GlobalCollect chooses BOKU for mobile payment
Mobile Entertainment
More distribution for the 'pay from the phone bill' specialist.
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Mobile Entertainment
Square mobile payment service hits 2 mln users
Telecompaper (subscription)
Mobile payment startup Square reports that over 2 million individuals and businesses can now accept credit cards with Square. In its first year of service ...
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Square now has two million mobile payment users in the USA
The Fonecast
US-based mobile payment service Square, which enables payments to be taken via a plug-in card reader for mobile phones, says over two million individuals ...
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The Fonecast
Square hits 2M users, $6B in payments processed
IntoMobile
Simply put, Square is revolutionizing the mobile payment industry. For those of you who (somehow) haven't yet heard of Square, the service allows you to take ...
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CMDI Launches Mobile Fundraising Tool
techPresident
Unlike other generic mobile payment solutions like Square, it automates the compliance process of reporting donations in formats acceptable to the Federal ...
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Nationz to offer Mips-based mobile payment products
Telecompaper (subscription)
Security processors and RF chips provider Nationz Technologies has licensed processor architectures and cores provider Mips Technologies' MIPS32 M4K ...
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Apple's Opportunity: Disrupt the Credit Card Business
ReadWriteWeb
In May, JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz floated the idea of "iPay," a hypothetical mobile-payment platform that Apple was in position to develop. Although ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Square Doubles Its User Base
NBC Bay Area
The mobile payment company said Thursday that it has doubled the amount of individuals and businesses that can process credit cards using its plug in device ...
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Mob eCommerce Releases Mobile Ecommerce Application For ...
Melodika.net (press release)
... easy sending of alerts on special offers, free mobile compatible website, social media sharing, supporting all mobile payment gateways, Google Analytics etc.
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Cement-at-the-doorstep pilot project unveiled
Creamer Media's Engineering News
The company reports that the community of Soweto will now have access to high- quality cement at its doorstep. The project, in partnership with Mobile Payment ...
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Admeris Recognized as 2012 OnMobile Ones to Watch by AlwaysOn
EIN News (press release)
Admeris' mobile payment solution is a PCI-compliant platform that spans a ... Hundreds of merchants rely on the Admeris mobile payment gateway to meet the ...
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My Mobile Payments launches m-wallet service in India
Telecompaper (subscription)
Indian mobile payment services provider My Mobile Payments has launched an m-wallet service dubbed Money-on-Mobile (MOM). The service enables Indian ...
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Square hires Friar as chief financial officer
Telecompaper (subscription)
Mobile payment startup Square has hired Sarah Friar as the company's chief financial officer. Friar was most recently the senior vice president of finance ...
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch Rolls Out New Corporate Banking ...
Banktech
The new app provides mobile payment services such as electronic purchase order submission, invoicing and payment settlement. Executives will be able to ...
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Small Businesses Leverage Mobile Technology to Increase ...
CPA Practice Advisor
Small business owners and entrepreneurs have access to articles, podcasts, blog posts and infographics that cover a range of topics, including mobile payment ...
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Apple iOS 6 passbook vs Google Wallet
PluggedIn
The battle between Apple and Google has taken a turn into the realm of mobile payment systems with Apple unveiling Passbook for iOS 6. So how do the two ...
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Samsung NFC-enabled TecTiles Unveiled: All You Need to Know
iTechPost
Samsung would love to position themselves to take a huge share of the NFC mobile payment pie, a pie which Juniper Research estimated a year ago could be ...
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Venture capital deals
Fortune (blog)
iZettle, a Swedish mobile payment system, has raised €24 million in new VC funding, according to GigaOm. Greylock Partners led the round, and was joined by ...
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NSN, Everything Everywhere in M2M partnership
Mobile Business Briefing
... be able to remotely monitor stock levels, increase customer interaction through targeted messages to the machines and provide NFC mobile payment options.
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iZettle Closes $31.6 Million Expansion Round
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The Stockholm-based mobile-payment company will use the money to expand rapidly across Europe and elsewhere.
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Blogs12 new results for "Mobile Payment"
A breakdown of our mobile payment future | Techi.com
By Scarlett Madison
Every day we see more people using their smartphones to make payments whether through apps directly on them or by using them to pay for purchases at stores. The.
Techi.com
Hoofnagle, Urban, and Li on Mobile Payment Benefits and Privacy ...
By Jeff Sovern
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Jennifer M. Urban and Su Li , all of Berkely have written Mobile Payments: Consumer Benefits & New Privacy Concerns. Here's the abstract: Payment systems that allow people to pay using their mobile phones are ...
CL&P Blog
GlobalCollect Offers BOKU as Mobile Payment Checkout to its ...
By Payments News Editor
BOKU and GlobalCollect announced GlobalCollect has selected BOKU as its global mobile payments partner. The partnership integrates BOKU's payments platform into GlobalCollect's international payment network, allowing online ...
Payments News - from Glenbrook Partners
Offers are Where Mobile Wallet Value Lies, Says Isis | IP Carrier
By Gary Kim
Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will surpass $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011 values of $105.9 billion, according to Gartner. The number of mobile payment users will reach 212.2 million in 2012, up from ...
IP Carrier
Mobile payment service iZettle banks $31m to become the global ...
By Steffen Konrath
GigaOM European Technology News :: Since coming out of beta last year, Swedish payments service iZettle has been very careful about how it has grown. Now, however, it looks like the time for slow expansion could be over, as the...
:: Future of Journalism
Mobile Payments Bring New Opportunities – and New Threats ...
By Bindu Sundaresan
The PCI Security Standards Council issued a new document this month that explains its views on mobile payment security, and provides guidelines for how merchants can securely accept payments using mobile devices such as smartphones ...
Networking Exchange Blog
Schiller on app discovery, Passbook not being a direct payment ...
By Christian Zibreg
He said so-called digital wallet mobile-payment services are "all fighting over their piece of the pie, and we aren't doing that. And "Mr. Schiller", the steward of Apple's relations with developers, also touched upon a new set of tracking tools that ...
iDownloadBlog.com
PayPal Mobile Wallet App Live In Aurora Fashion Stores - Retail Fraud
By RF_editor
San Jose-based PayPa, has stated that it will use 2012 to test various mobile payment services. PayPal is set to launch UK-only mobile wallet app, PayPal InStore. The payment platform has partnered with fashion chain, Aurora, to let ...
Retail Fraud
MoMo London – July 2nd – Mobile Payments » Mobile Monday
By london
Announcements of new mobile payment methods seem to have been popping up like spring flowers this year- joining that hardy perennial NFC. Last time we looked at this area was more than two years ago - so we agreed with our event ...
Mobile Monday
Commerce Weekly: Couch commerce gets a boost - O'Reilly Radar
By Jenn Webb
In related news, Nick Hughes at TechCrunch took a look at trends in mobile wallet and mobile payment systems, and notes that not only are the proprietary platforms causing fragmentation that is hindering mobile payment progress, but they're ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
STMicroelectronics Provides Solution for China Smart Grid ...
By angus@smartmeters.com (Smartmeters)
ST is one of the first semiconductor manufacturers to offer both the NFC controller and a high-performance SWP[1] Secure Element to provide a complete NFC mobile payment solution. By working with various mobile phone manufacturers, ...
SmartMeters
iZettle takes €25 Million in Series B funding | Contactless Intelligence
By krowne
Success in New Zealand mobile payment trial June 13, 2012. CIPURSE Explaining the Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance April 10, 2012. VeriFone_Taxi A London taxi ride with VeriFone May 28, 2012. Singapore_exact ...
Contactless Intelligence

Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Facebook Mobile Payment | Social Media Examiner
And marketers also now have the option of buying mobile-only Facebook ads. facebook mobile payment. The new Facebook flow for mobile payments requires ...
www.socialmediaexaminer.com/tag/facebook-mobile-payment/
Success in New Zealand mobile payment trial | Contactless ...
Mobile payments are being given the thumbs up from the Bank of New Zealand ( BNZ) following a successful trial of NFC technology between BNZ, Vodafone, ...
contactlessintelligence.com/.../success-in-new-zealand-mobile-...
Canadian consumers increasingly using contactless, mobile payment
Canadian consumers increasingly using contactless, mobile payment formats. Canadians are using their phones to pay for goods. Cash's role as the top ...
www.retailpro.com/.../canadian-consumers-increasingly-using-...



Barron's: Are Mobile Payments A Hard Cell?

Are Mobile Payments A Hard Cell?
Barron's
While mobile payments have yet to gain broad consumer traction at the point of sale, ... Some mobile carriers have joined together with NFC-based mobile wallet ...
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TecTiles: Samsung's Attempt to Make You NFC Savvy
Wall Street Daily
Mostly, I've been focusing on how NFC is going to shape the burgeoning mobile payments industry. If you're unfamiliar with the technology, NFC-equipped ...
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Mobile tech enhancing, not replacing ATMs
Mobile Payments Today
Mobile payments consultant Richard Crone has been anticipating the arrival of ... NFC-enabled MCA will be the next wave of mobile-driven differentiation.
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New Zealand NFC payments trial gets rave reviews

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New Zealand NFC payments trial gets rave reviews
NFCNews
Participants of a recent NFC payments trial in New Zealand have given the service ... using NFC-enabled mobile phones to make contactless payments at two ...
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QATAR NATIONAL BANK SAQ : Thu, 14 Jun 2012 QNB rewards ...
4-traders
Tap and Pay is the first mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) payments program launched in Qatar that allows QNB customers to easily turn their mobile ...
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STMicroelectronics, Waison launch NFC-enabled power meters in ...
NFCNews (blog)
The new meters, which integrate NFC technology from ST, enables users to pay ... the 2G/3G mobile network to the banking back-end to complete the payment.
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Alpha Hunters: The Mobile Payments Opportunity
Forex Pros
The mobile payments market is one of the fastest growing segments of the digital ... You also have things like M-Pesa in Kenya and NFC Payments in Japan that ...
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Berg: 86% of POS terminals in North America will accept NFC

Berg: 86% of POS terminals in North America will accept NFC ...
NFC World
The US will have the world's highest density of NFC point-of-sale terminals in ... in preparation for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payment services," say the ...
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NFC World
Ericsson demonstrates its Trusted Service Manager service live with ...
TelecomTiger
The system allows remote deployment and removal of payment applications and ... the use of mobile Point of Sale (POS) terminals for payment transactions. ... (TSM) service live at NFC Payments Europe, The Royal Garden Hotel, London.
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TelecomTiger
Hong Kong's first mobile wallet solution launched
The Asset
... Hong Kong's first mobile wallet solution for payments and loyalty programs. ... field communications (NFC) enabled for payment and non-payment transaction ...
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HID Global's Mobile Access Control Pilot with Arizona State ...
RFID-Ready (press release)
HID Global's Mobile Access Control Pilot with Arizona State University ... of mobile access control technology beyond cashless payment applications," said Debra ... "This pilot proved the viability of the NFC-based mobile access model using ...
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RFID-Ready (press release)
Ad techniques being used for mobile gaming and other industries
QR Code Press
Mobile gaming and other sectors, and companies that specialize in the area are far from ... is seeing tremendous potential in near field communications (NFC). ... new technology like Near Field Communications that enable mobile payments, ...
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QR Code Press
Why Apple Is Afraid Of Bitcoin
Forbes
With the introduction of Passbook, Apple has launched mobile payments on iOS and ... bridge strategy prior to full Near Field Communication (NFC) deployment.
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Forbes
Nokia introduces new marketing concept with Nokia Gift Machine
AME Info
(L-R): Calin Turcanu, Head of Mobile Phones Units, Nokia IMEA, ... Alternatively users can also check-in using NFC mobile technology. Mike Rowe, CEO of ...
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Ericsson launches NFC access control pilot in Kista Science City
NFCNews (blog)
Ericsson has launched an NFC access control pilot at the European Institute of ... contactless mobile payment applications on their customers' NFC-enabled ...
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Mobile Tag Aims for Global Leadership in Point-of-interest Media
Sacramento Bee
PRNewswire/ -- Already one of the world's leading mobile applications for ... Manage your subscription · Make a payment · BeeBuzzPoints Loyalty Club .... Using the Mobile Tag smartphone app, users simply scan 'tags' (barcodes, NFC chips, ...
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New iGR Study Forecasts the US Mobile Device Insurance Market ...
MarketWatch (press release)
What is the perceived price paid by respondents for device insurance? ... LTE; WiMAX; VoLTE; IMS; NFC; GSM/GPRS/UMTS/HSPA; CDMA 1x/EV-DO; iDEN; SIP ...
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Samsung's NFC Stickers (TecTiles) Headlines...Headlines


Samsung TecTiles Let Users Automate their Lives with NFC
PCWorld (blog)
Forget about mobile payments, Samsung wants you to use your smartphone's Near Field Communication (NFC) chip to complete tasks at home, the office and in ...
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Samsung TecTiles let users program NFC tags
TG Daily
Samsung's hoping to give near field communication (NFC) a whole new set of ... an opportunity to expand the value of NFC beyond mobile payments," says Dale ...
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TG Daily
TecTiles: programmable NFC stickers for select members of ...
Engadget
Samsung TecTiles programmable NFC stickers for your Galaxy S III ... saw an opportunity to expand the value of NFC beyond mobile payments," said Dale Sohn ...
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Samsung introduces TecTile NFC tags along with Android ...
PhoneDog
Users can program a TecTile NFC sticker tag with a Samsung TecTile ... an opportunity to expand the value of NFC beyond mobile payments," said Dale Sohn, ...
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Samsung's TecTiles Put NFC Anywhere You Want It
Gizmodo
This isn't ground-breaking, but it's a pretty practical usage of NFC technology. Mobile payments gets the majority of media attention when it comes to NFC, so it's ...
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Samsung Programmable NFC Labels Dubbed TecTiles
TechWeekEurope UK
The idea is that in addition to the traditional NFC functions of mobile payments, the Samsung TecTiles system uses the NFC labels or stickers, which the user ...
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TechWeekEurope UK
Alpha Hunters: The Mobile Payments Opportunity
AllAboutAlpha.com (blog)
Research by Gartner shows that the total value of global mobile payments will ... You also have things like M-Pesa in Kenya and NFC Payments in Japan that ...
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AllAboutAlpha.com (blog)
Samsung TecTile Tags Finally Makes NFC Interesting
Chip Chick
If you thought NFC was just for making mobile payments, think again. Samsung is about to change all of that with their new TecTiles Programmable NFC Tags.
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Can Samsung make NFC tech happen? Not with TecTiles
ZDNet (blog)
Can Samsung make NFC tech happen? ... The company told my CNET colleague Jessica Dolcourt that TecTiles are really a warmup act for mobile payments: ...
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Samsung launches TecTiles NFC tags and programming application
NFC World
The near field communication news source – NFC, contactless, mobile payments, RF SIM, RFID and more. Skip to content. Home · About NFC World · Advertise ...
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NFC World
NFC: Samsung announces TecTiles markers for Galaxy
Generation NT (US)
Samsung TecTiles NFC Samsung also wants to help make the NFC technology more wide spread, going farther than just mobile payment which is seen as its ...
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