TapBase Introduces TapPay and TapWallet Mobile Applications for the iPhone

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TapBase introduces a different approach to mobile billing and payments with its TapPay and TapWallet apps.

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TapBase has announced the official release of its TapPay and TapWallet mobile applications for the iPhone as key elements of its Tap mobile payments, loyalty and rewards platform. “After a significant development and testing effort, we’re very pleased to offer merchants and consumers a feature-rich mobile payments billing and payment solution”, reported CEO, Robert Mallett.

“Although there are a number of mobile payment solutions now available in the marketplace, our system mitigates some of the risks inherent in performing payment transactions away from the traditional bricks-and-mortar retail store. For example, a customer can request a bill be sent to their own device; the customer can then complete the transaction without having to directly share sensitive credit card data with the merchant.”

The TapPay application was designed and developed with significant input from small businesses and the functionality extends far beyond the payment processing available from existing mobile payment systems. For example, merchants can use the integrated barcode scanner to manage a mobile database of products and services; items can be instantly called up and added to a mobile shopping cart where discounts, miscellaneous charges and/or tips can be applied. Using an optional magnetic-stripe reader, credit and debit cards can be swiped or a bill can be sent directly to a customer’s smartphone.

The TapWallet application allows consumers to securely store and carry payment card information as well as loyalty and membership cards. When a bill arrives, the customer selects a payment card, signs the transaction on their phone and authorizes the payment.    Within seconds, the merchant is notified that the transaction is complete and is provided with a copy of the receipt. This innovative system is fast, easy and convenient for both the consumer and merchant.

TapBase plans to offer Android versions of the apps and launch further components of its platform in Q4, 2012. This will include the ability for merchants to issue their own virtual pre-paid and gift cards using QR codes and NFC technology. Additionally, merchants may offer rewards to customers in the form of TapPoints – a virtual currency offered only on the Tap Platform.

TapBase LLC was founded by a team of experienced professionals with backgrounds in banking, smart cards, wireless and information technology. The company is an angel-funded startup based in the San Francisco bay area.

Vantiv Launches a Mobile Accept Application

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Vantiv Launches Mobile Accept Application (via PR Newswire)

CINCINNATI, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, announces the introduction of its new mobile payment app Vantiv Mobile Accept.  The simple…

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VeriFone Selected for Contactless Payment Rollout in Mexico City

First Major Contactless Project in Mexico Utilizes VeriFone VX 520 and VX 820 Payment Solutions

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriFone Systems, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), will provide the merchant payment solutions in the initial phase of the first major contactless payment rollout in Mexico City by the Mexican bank Banamex, which begins today.

“VeriFone is a key enabler in this electronic payment experience in Banamex, which will provide consumers and merchants with an easier, more convenient way of payment.”

Banamex, part of Grupo Financiero Banamex and a member of Citi, is implementing a full-scale contactless payment deployment. In the first phase, several thousand VeriFone contactless-enabled card acceptance systems will be deployed to 1,900 merchants in the Mexico City metropolitan area. The bank is also issuing 100,000 contactless credit and debit cards to begin the transition to the new innovative way of payment.

The bank will deploy the VeriFone VX 520 to merchants who use traditional standalone countertop systems, and the VX 820 advance PIN pad to larger retailers that integrate payment systems to electronic cash register systems.

“VeriFone is the natural choice to provide the merchant acceptance solutions, based on its leading technology and experience in Mexico,” said VeriFone Country Manager Erick Lopez Sanchez. “VeriFone is a key enabler in this electronic payment experience in Banamex, which will provide consumers and merchants with an easier, more convenient way of payment.”

By end of 2012, the bank expects to have issued 1 million contactless cards and to have deployed 12,000 payment acceptance systems. For purchases of less than 250 pesos (approx. US$15), contactless payments will require no signatures, resulting in quick service in locales such as fast food restaurants, bookstores, pharmacies, magazine stands and other types of businesses.

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Mobile payment committee holds promise for more cooperation GigaOM Some of the biggest players in the mobile payment space including the four U.S. mobile carriers, Google, Isis, VeriFone and Intuit are joining a new mobile payment committee within the Electronic Transactions Association. It's still too early to say what this ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

ETA Brings Together Mobile Payment Giants To Form Single Committee Hot Hardware With Google Wallet, Isis, Square, NFC and all sorts of other technologies in the mobile payment space finally getting their wings, we could be in for a sea-change that will completely disrupt how we pay for goods. Following news of Starbucks and Square ... See all stories on this topic » Hot Hardware

Mobile payment apps allow customers to leave wallets at home WATE-TV "We don't even have to have power in the truck, and we can still accept credit cards. You can just swipe the card and it will go right (through the iPad)," said Byron Sambat, co-owner of Savory and Sweet. For the family-run Pups and Pals in North Knoxville, the ... See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks leads mobile wallet revolution Examiner.com Starbucks and payment processor, Square, just announced an agreement in which Square will process all of Starbucks' bank card transactions, and implement a mobile payment system which will allow customers to pay directly from their smartphone. See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com

Google, PayPal, and U.S. carriers join committee to increase mobile payment ... Mobile Burn The Electronic Transactions Association announced today that it has formed The Mobile Payments Committee, an alliance of companies involved in the mobile payments sector working to achieve their common goals. Though members have competing ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Starbucks' deal with Square finally make mobile wallets happen? The Week Magazine Starting this fall, Starbucks is partnering with Square, the mobile payment start-up, to have the new company process all of the coffee purveyor's debit and credit card transactions. The team-up marks a monumental victory for the two-year-old mobile wallet ... See all stories on this topic »

The Campaign to Digitize Your Wallet Is Intensifying New York Times Seth Priebatsch, chief executive of Scvngr, a start-up that offers a mobile payment app called LevelUp, said the move could risk alienating other big retailers. Square has invited Howard D. Schultz, Starbucks's chief executive, to its board. That would give the ... See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks Partnership with Square Is a 'Game Changer' for Mobile Payments HispanicBusiness.com Even as Hamadeh predicted a wave of new venture capital investment in mobile payment companies, Starbucks said it will put $25 million into Square as part of the partnership. That investment will be included in a funding round that Square has yet to ... See all stories on this topic »

Payment trade association forms mobile payment committee Mobile Payments Today The trade association of the payments industry is launching a new committee aimed at addressing the policy and business issues accompanying the growth of mobile payments. The Electronic Transactions Association announced that its Mobile Payments ... See all stories on this topic »

Schultz and Dorsey on Why Starbucks Needs Square Wall Street Journal (India) Starbucks and mobile payment innovator Square recently announced a partnership that would allow Starbucks customers use Square's technology to pay for their coffee. In an exclusive interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and ... See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks Signs Deal with Pay With Square Kapitall Blog (blog) Starbucks (SBUX) shocked the business world when it announced on Tuesday it will begin a partnership with mobile payment company Pay With Square. The partnership will put Square's automatic payment service in every Starbucks café location ... See all stories on this topic » Kapitall Blog (blog)

Starbucks has paired up Square to launch a service that lets customers use their ... New York Daily News Starbucks has paired up with mobile payment provider Square to launch a service that lets customers use their smartphones to buy their lattes. "Pay with Square" will be available at about 7000 Starbucks stores this fall, said the java giant, which is investing ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Starbucks adopts St. Louis-born payment gizmo STLtoday.com Starbucks plans to add the Square system to its own current mobile payment systems, which use iPhone and Android devices. Those apps let customers pay by scanning a bar code on the phone's screen. Starbucks added those systems over the past year. See all stories on this topic »

Mobile Payments Are About to Become Standardized. Really Good or Really ... Gizmodo It does include other mobile payment participants like Google and PayPal—though it's missing Square, which is now an even humongouser figure in mobile payments thanks to being in every Starbucks. So a lot of the non-carrier muscle is sitting this one out, ... See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks teams with Square for mobile payments The News International NEW YORK: Starbucks is pouring $25 million into electronic payments start-up Square in a partnership that expands mobile payment options at the coffee chain, the companies announced on Wednesday. Starbucks customers will be able to use the Pay with ... See all stories on this topic » The News International

PayPal, Google, Verifone And US Carriers Form Mobile Payment Committee Geeky gadgets Mobile payments is obviously something that all the major mobile carriers are looking into, PayPal and Google have their own mobile payment systems, and now they have teamed up with Verifone and the major US mobile carriers to form a mobile payment ... See all stories on this topic » Geeky gadgets

Square, Starbucks Deal: Could Your Team Do It? InformationWeek But Starbucks also has built an infrastructure--with its organization and its technology--to cut this kind of deal. That infrastructure makes deals like this more likely to happen. And it makes it more likely that technology like Square's mobile payment processing ... See all stories on this topic »

PayPal, Vivo launch Brazilian mobile payment service Mobile Payments Today PayPal has taken its partnership with Brazilian telecommunication company Vivo to the next level. The companies announced a partnership aimed at creating a mobile payment solution last year, and now that plan has come to fruition. On the PayPal blog, ... See all stories on this topic »

Reliance Capital arm launches mobile-based payment system SME Times RCAM is the first asset management company to offer the Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) platform to investors for making investments in mutual funds, the company said in a statement. IMPS is a payments platform that allows customers to use ... See all stories on this topic »

The Meaning of Square: What's So Great About a Cashless Society? The Atlantic One small step for vanilla lattes, one giant leap for mankind, is how the world characterized the deal yesterday between Starbucks and Square, the new mobile payment company that, in addition to the iconic square swiper shown above, can identify people ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Mobile Payments Committee Announced: Includes All 4 Major US Carriers iMedia Connection (blog) Worldwide mobile payment transactions are estimated to total $171.5 billion in 2012; a 62% increase from last year's $105.9 billion, and could reach $617 billion by 2016, according to research firm Gartner. There's no doubt that mobile payments are a ... See all stories on this topic »

Google, PayPal, VeriFone and US carriers band together to form Mobile ... Engadget In an effort to define a way forward for the mobile payment industry, a large number of heavy hitters have banded together under the umbrella of the Electronic Transactions Association to form the Mobile Payments Committee. Not only does the group include ... See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks Accelerates Mobile Payments Hospitality Technology Starbucks Accelerates Mobile Payments. Starbucks Coffee Company, with its leading mobile payment platform, and Square have announced a broad innovative partnership to bring the best possible payment experience to both sides of the Starbucks counter. See all stories on this topic »

Starbucks-Square Partnership Could Take Mobile Payments Mainstream The Epoch Times Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz announced that the world's largest retail coffeehouse chain will begin to integrate Square Inc.'s mobile payment processing system into 7000 of its store locations in an effort to expedite customer transactions. In addition ... See all stories on this topic » The Epoch Times

Starbucks Brewing Major Mobile Payments Effort with Square Daily Deal Media To be sure, Starbucks' hugely popular mobile payment app isn't being discontinued. The deal with Square will merely augment the java giant's budding mobile presence and related services. The partnership will enable Starbucks customers to use the "Pay ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Deal Media

Starbucks-Square alliance worth $25m Industry Leaders Magazine Starbucks had tried to implement its own mobile payment application. The application did not become a big success, but still every week it processes more than a million mobile phone payments. Although the new deal was signed up, the customers will be still ... See all stories on this topic » Industry Leaders Magazine

Starbucks Utilizes Mobile Payments Via Square Zolmax Most of the companies also provide mobile payment processing tools. The increase of mobile tools in recent years had analysts to predict that consumers don't have to carry their wallets in the future. This can cause a lot of security problems for existing ... See all stories on this topic » Zolmax

Smartphone to replace wallet? Campaign to digitize your purse is intensifying Economic Times But not everyone is convinced that Square's buddying up with a behemoth like Starbucks is such a good idea. Seth Priebatsch, chief executive of Scvngr, a startup that offers a mobile payment app called LevelUp, said the move could risk alienating other big ... See all stories on this topic »

NQ Mobile's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha The year-over-year increase was primarily due to the increased customer acquisition costs as a result of more users acquired in the second quarter and higher revenue sharing with mobile payment service providers which is consistent with the increase of ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google, ISIS and U.S. carriers join Mobile Payments Committee Android Authority But we're not quite there yet, as neither Google's mobile payment system, Google Wallet, nor ISIS, the Verizon-AT&T-T-Mobile venture, are widely available on existing devices. In fact, the latter is still in development, as the three carriers are yet to offer ISIS ... See all stories on this topic » Android Authority

Four Major Carriers Join Google In Mobile Payments Committee Gotta Be Mobile The only noticeable thing missing from the Mobile Payment Committee is Square. When Square partnered with Starbucks this week, the two companies formed the largest mobile payment system in the U.S.. We hope this committee comes up with a way to ... See all stories on this topic »

Top US cellular carriers join new Mobile Payments Committee TechRadar UK Unfortunately for the committee's objectives, Square, perhaps the most major mover in the mobile payment playing field, hasn't indicated it'll join the powwows. Given the company's landmark deal Wednesday with Starbucks, the committee might want to see ... See all stories on this topic » TechRadar UK

Vantiv gets into the mobile POS game Mobile Payments Today Payment processor Vantiv Inc. has introduced its new mobile payment app, Vantiv Mobile Accept. The app, designed for small and medium sized businesses, lets merchants use mobile devices to quickly and securely swipe credit, debit and prepaid cards. See all stories on this topic »

Vantiv launches Mobile Accept application Telecompaper (subscription) Vantiv, a provider of payment processing services and related technology products for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, launched its new mobile payment app Vantiv Mobile Accept. The app enables any merchant to bring Vantiv's payment ... See all stories on this topic »

TapBase introduces TapPay, TapWallet apps for iPhone Telecompaper (subscription) The TapPay application was designed and developed with significant input from small businesses and the functionality extends far beyond the payment processing available from existing mobile payment systems. For example, merchants can use the ... See all stories on this topic »

Big four US carriers taking part in Mobile Payments Committee along with ... PhoneDog The Mobile Payments Committee has plans to help its members figure out form relationships to aid in mobile payment interoperability, work with regulators and legislators on how to form public policy related to mobile payments and teach both consumers and ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google teams with leading US carriers to form Mobile Payments ... By Élyse Betters Among the issues the committee is tackling, it will help participants figure out the complex business relationships necessary to make mobile payment options interoperable; help legislators and regulators understand how to develop mobile ... 9to5Google

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Big Four Carriers Form New Mobile Payment Initiative (Phone Scoop) AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless have joined a new task force called the Mobile Payments Committee. The Mobile Payments Committee was ... www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=10936

Vantiv launches mobile payment app Vantiv launches mobile payment app. Vantiv (VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and ... www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid...

Square joins Starbucks' largest mobile payment network Mobile payments is a huge new market that no one is quite sure what to do with yet. Everyone has a different philosophy on how to make it all work, and while ... www.phonearena.com/.../Square-joins-Starbucks-largest-mobil...

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Image via CrunchBase ViVOtech Sells Hardware Unit To Concentrate on NFC Software But the U.S. contactless and NFC-based mobile-payments markets were slow to develop, and the POS terminal industry changed, Ablowitz notes. Last year ... www.digitaltransactions.net/news/story/3621

Singapore's NFC infrastructure goes live The IDA and members of the consortium are currently working with Singapore's Land Transport Authority to assess the mobile readiness of NFC payments for ... www.vrl-financial-news.com/.../singapore's-nfc-infrastructure....

NFC POS Supplier Vivotech Fails | Mobile Marketing & Technology So it is that contactless reader and NFC software vendor Vivotech has become an early casualty of the contactless mobile payment business. NFC Times reports ... mobilemarketingandtechnology.com/.../nfc-pos-supplier-vivot...

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