Thursday, July 5, 2012

31 Mobile Payment News Stories from Around the Globe


Deutsche Telekom in Talks With Google For Mobile Payment Service Partnership
DeviceMAG
When it comes to adding partners to its mobile payment platform, T-Mobile knows no bounds, as its parent Deutsche Telekom has admitted that it is in talks.
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Deutsche Telekom's Google talks give rise to NFC payment apps
TelecomsTech
Google = part two of DT's mobile payment strategy? This development comes days after Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership with MasterCard with regard to further synchronising mobile payments. Presumably Kiessling's inference that DT was ...
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T-Mobile to go into m-payment
Telecompaper (subscription)
Deutsche Telekom is taking mobile payment in-house. The telco will launch a mobile wallet in 2012-2013, feed the NFC-chain and add m-commerce under the T-Mobile and ClickandBuy brands. Head-of-technology Thomas Kiessling says that Deutsche ...
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Commonwealth Bank to launch Facebook banking
Computerworld Australia
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA)is to offer banking via Facebook by the end of this year, and has further announced that its Kaching mobile payment application is now available for Android-based mobile devices. Speaking in Sydney, David Lindberg, ...
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New kiosk system revolutionises payment process
DI-VE
Mobile Systems Malta, founded in 2010 to provide mobile payment systems, was responsible for creating a united interactive payment system with the aim of making life in Malta easier. The company is now in the process of developing a wide dealer network ...
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Commonwealth Bank unveils Kaching for Android
ARNnet
The Commonwealth Bank's Kaching mobile payment application is now available for Android phones, the bank announced today. The Kaching app launched almost seven months ago on Apple's iPhone and is finally available for Android. However, the key ...
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Research and Markets: Mobile Commerce Carrier Strategies
Business Wire (press release)
Mobile Payment Service Providers. - Content and Applications Aggregators. - Mobile Marketing and Advertising Providers. - Telecommunications Infrastructure Providers. Keywords: Mobile Commerce, M-Commerce, Mobile Commerce Carrier Strategies, ...
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Third of Brits aware of contactless payments - study
Telecompaper (subscription)
... impact on UK consumers, with just 12 percent planning to adopt m-payment technology over the next two years. The three biggest benefits for those considering NFC are convenience (76%), speed (68%) and relative ease of mobile payment (65%).
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CUA launches mobile app
Computerworld Australia
The Commonwealth Bank also announced today that its Kaching mobile payment application is now available on Android phones, which was released seven months ago for iPhones. Follow Stephanie McDonald on Twitter: @stephmcdonald0 ...
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Google's Next Nexus: The Top 5 Features We Want
TechnoBuffalo
In hopes of pushing its own mobile payment system, Google has been a major advocate for NFC equipped devices. We understand Google's agenda, but with other options such as ISIS — the joint venture between T-Mobile USA, AT&T and Verizon Wireless ...
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Africa finally pays its own way — with a mobile phone
Memeburn
Mobile payment platforms offer bank customers a real-time, direct, prepaid airtime top-up solution today. This differs from the traditional 'indirect' prepaid top-up methods in that no prepaid PINs or vouchers are required and it is easily extendable ...
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Closes Up Following Thomas Kiessling Interview ...
PT News
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) closed in positive territory after a report that Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) and Google Inc. are in talks with credit-card companies and banks to add partners to its mobile-payment system, according to an interview with Thomas Ki .
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Commonwealth Bank brings Kaching app to Android
Tech Trader
The Commonwealth Bank has today released its popular Kaching mobile payment app to the Android platform, allowing millions of smartphone users to make mobile payments instantly. The new Android version of the app works on 13 of the top Android ...
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Why Square Is Succeeding in the Competitive Hyperlocal Payments Space
Street Fight
But does it? PayPal also has a mobile payment system, which launched a feature that's remarkably similar to Square's service. It's already seeing impressive pickup, with over 300000 people singing up for card readers. Neither one is better than the other.
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Street Fight
Vodacom makes playing the lotto easier
Moneyweb.co.za
Meanwhile‚ Vodacom on Wednesday unveiled its latest insurance product which will see loyal m-pesa – mobile payment- customers receive up to R10‚000 worth of funeral cover. Vodacom Funeral Cover is one of the insurance products that Vodacom plans ...
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Kaching comes to Android, but without NFC
PC World Magazine
Commonwealth debuts mobile payment app on Android, but without NFC payments.
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Vodacom launches lottery service
BusinessLIVE
On Wednesday, Vodacom also unveiled a new insurance product that will give loyal mobile payment — or "m-pesa" — customers funeral cover of up to R10000. "There's no better way to give our customers peace of mind than to provide funeral cover at no ...
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Paymate provides on-the-spot POS by phone to SMEs
iTWire
Another mobile payment system is becoming avaiable to small businesses.
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Blogs8 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Banking: MFS Africa innovating on top of Mobile payments
By Hannes@Home
During the past year, MFS Africa, launched a number of innovative products that is only possible on mobile phones, using mobile payment platforms. The ability to perform immediate, irreversible payments at very low costs points, enables ...
Mobile Banking
MasterCard, Deutsche Telekom Join to Boost Mobile Payments in ...
By Tom Goldsmith
"We want to build a comprehensive ecosystem around mobile payment, helping Telekom to realize its strategy of being the first choice for customers regarding connected life and work," says Thomas Kiessling, the company's chief product and ...
Your Daily Scoop
Paymate provides on-the-spot POS by phone to SMEs - Spiceworks
By vendorpageid_1800
Another mobile payment system is becoming available to small businesses. {loadposition stephen08}Using smartphones as EFTPOS terminals is an attractive idea for small businesses. The latest company to enter this market is financial ...
Spiceworks Community
Apps help smartphones become digital wallets — Business ...
By UnBylined
Industry officials and analysts acknowledge that when a consumer makes a mobile payment, the money moves through more hands than it would with a cash or credit payment. In addition to the smartphone manufacturer — Apple or Samsung, ...
Bangor Daily News
7 more WooCommerce goodies | WooThemes
By James Koster
... integrate payments from not only credit/debit cards like Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover, JCB, Maestro, but also from other payment systems like PayPal, GiroPay, iDeal, SafeCard, Mobile Payment (paybox, Orange, T-Mobile, ...
WooThemes
Deutsche Telekom mulls mobile wallet deal with Google ...
For more: - see this Bloomberg article - see this Wall Street Journal article (sub. req.) Related Articles: Sweden's big four operators launch WyWallet m-wallet service · Mobile payment market faces challenges as pioneers battle for dominance ...
FierceWireless
Malaysia Airlines Partners PayPal for Faster and Safer Mobile ...
Malaysia Airlines Partners PayPal for Faster and Safer Mobile Payment Option. ... The Malaysia Airlines' customer experience is further enhanced with the introduction of PayPal's faster, safer mobile payment service. Booking and paying for ...
ITbriefing.net
Mozilla Testifies at U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on Do Not Track ...
By Shawn Hess
Last Thursday, Mozilla testified at a United States Senate Commerce Committee hearing on do not track . The purpose of the hearing was to determine if voluntary efforts by those in the industry are enough to safeguard user ...
WebProNews

Web5 new results for "Mobile Payment"
VeriFone Takes Sail, Its Mobile Payment Device, To Android | Fast ...
VeriFone recently revealed its play for the next gen of mobile payments, to compete with the likes of Square--it's an iPhone-compatible Sail dongle, which comes ...
www.fastcompany.com/node/1841411/
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more to market exciting news came out, mobile payment is expected to clarify the long plagued the development of In addition, the central bank to carry out the ...
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MTS plans to launch app for mobile payment through cards ...
NEW DELHI: Sistema Shyam Teleservices, which offer telecom services under the MTS brand, plans to power its smartphones with a card swipe device which ...
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/.../32441268_1_mts-pl...
Finding the Winning Ingredient for the Mobile Payment Space ...
As the mobile payment market has been heating up in the past few months with more and more new entrants (RevCoin launched its mobile payment system at ...
blog.mashery.com/.../finding-winning-ingredient-mobile-pay...
Mobile Payment to Dominate the Payment Channels in 2015 - Views ...
According to the latest statistics from Netbanker,iResearch concludes that the global transaction volume of mobile payment reached 240 billion dollars in 2011.
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Orange unveils SIM-based NFC contactless payment plans


NFC Mobile Payments to Exceed $US180 Billion in 2017
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Near field communications (NFCmobile payments will exceed US$180 billion worldwide in 2017, according to a May 2012 report by Juniper Research.
blog.paymentsystemscorp.com/.../NFC-Mobile-Payments-to-E...
Deutsche Telekom unveils mobile payments plans • NFC World ...
"NFC mobile". Deutsche Telekom unveils mobile payments plans • NFC World By Sarah Clark … T-Mobile NFC rollout plans · Deutsche Telekom to launch NFC ...
https://nfcip.org/.../deutsche-telekom-unveils-mobile-payments...
Orange unveils SIM-based NFC contactless payment plans
Thierry Millet, vice president of mobile payments and NFC at Orange, commented : 'Gemalto's NFC solution is fully in line with our strategy to simplify and secure ...
www.telegeography.com/.../orange-unveils-sim-based-nfc-con...
NFCNews | Report: Mobile device hardware security market to hit ...
8195236), concerns the addition of NFC and contactless payment capabilities to existing mobile handsets through a phone's existing SIM card. According to OTI ...
www.abiresearch.com/mediadirect.jsp?id=23652
Twitter / TechCrunch: NFC Is Great, But Mobile P
NFC Is Great, But Mobile Payments Solve A Problem That Doesn't Exist http://tcrn. ch/N7HvBF by @jordanrcrook. Reply; RetweetedRetweet; Delete; Favorited ...
twitter.com/TechCrunch/statuses/219173813269696512
iPhone 5 to Sport NFC Controllers, Rival Google Wallet: Report ...
Apple's latest iPhone could boast near-field communication (NFC) technology, putting the company's mobile payment Passbook in direct competition with ...
www.eweek.com/.../iPhone-5-to-Sport-NFC-Controllers-Rival-...



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Contactless payments since 1926


Contactless payments since 1926
Finextra
Contactless payments since 1926. 05 Jul, 2012 00:13. On my desk sits one of the first contactless credit cards. It dates back to 1926 when it worked in exactly the same way as its modern NFC successor - you present it to buy goods or services. If they ...
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Make Way for NFC-based Mobile Access Control
CIO India
But little is known about its potential towards access control. According to a recent report, payment networks, banks, merchants, mobile device manufacturers and mobile network operators are increasingly adopting NFC technology and analysts anticipate ...
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Mobile phones replace wallets too
Deutsche Welle
"Mobile payments clearly have a big future ahead of them," he says. No breakthrough yet in western countries. And there is now a technology available which has the potential to convince the skeptics. Near Field Communication (NFC) is being promoted in ...
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Natwest Launches TouchPay NFC Contactless Payment Trial



Natwest Launches TouchPay NFC Contactless Payment Trial
TechWeekEurope UK
Mobile banking customers can sign up for the NFC trial which uses a sleeve to turn their iPhones into payment devices.
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TechWeekEurope UK
Deutsche Telekom, MasterCard to roll out NFC payments in Europe
NFCNews
Deutsche Telekom and MasterCard have announced a partnership to enable Deutsche Telekom's 93 million mobile customers across Europe to make NFC mobile payments.
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