Tuesday, August 14, 2012

35 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for August 14, 2012

News28 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile payment systems are expanding
Garden Center Magazine
Mobile payment systems options are growing for small businesses. Soon, customers won't even have to bring their wallets to purchase items at the local coffee shop, or the garden center. Cell phone app Square is starting to make a splash as it expands ...
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PayAnywhere Boosts Performance of Mobile Payment-Processing App
EcommerceBytes
Competing with the likes of Square and PayPal Here, PayAnywhere has launched a new version of its mobile point-of-sale solution for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that adds new capabilities to let merchants get paid faster and easier. North American ...
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Try Mobile Payment, CFOs Advised
CFO.com Magazine
It's lunch hour in Boston's financial district and the line at Boloco, a fast-food burrito chain, is long. A few people stand with credit or debit cards in hand, but most are holding their smartphones as they advance toward the register. A cashier ...
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The Pros and Cons of Mobile Payment Services
Entrepreneur
Apps for accepting customer credit cards on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are becoming big business. Take for instance San Francisco-based mobile payments startup Square, which recently inked a deal with Starbucks to process all of the ...
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Entrepreneur
CardinalCommerce Introduces CustomerConnect to Improve Mobile Commerce ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
CustomerConnect is a new addition to CardinalCommerce's Cardinal MAX™ mobile transaction platform which also includes mobile site solutions, mobile payment solutions, and mobile gift card and loyalty solutions. "CustomerConnect enables our ...
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The Key In Mobile Payments Is Payment
Seeking Alpha
Several merchants around my Atlanta home are already sporting all sorts of mobile payment gear, from systems that read bar codes to those that use bluetooth connections between phones and pads to transfer data. What they all have in common, along with ...
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DGAP-Adhoc: Deutsche Telekom commissions Wirecard as technical service ...
Equities.com
DGAP-Adhoc: Deutsche Telekom commissions Wirecard as technical service provider for mobile payment. DGAP Wirecard AG / Key word(s): Alliance 14.08.2012 08:07 Dissemination of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by ...
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LML Payment Systems' CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
... such as e-commerce tools being introduced into brick and mortar environments, pre-purchased value-added services such as online couponing to post-purchase value-added services such as award fulfillment and of course mobile payment capabilities.
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Phones ring in banks' future
Stock and Land
Another non-bank solution, the US-based start-up Square, this month signed with coffee shop Starbucks to provide mobile payment in-store, while other third-party app developers are pressing ahead with their own initiatives. For the banks, no matter how ...
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Utiba Expands Hosted Service Offering to Global Market
Equities.com
This innovative business model significantly lowers the mobile payment provider's entry barriers, time to market, and total cost of ownership (TCO), allowing them to focus on their core skills of marketing, customer acquisition and retention and the ...
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Top Trends in Mobile Commerce
QR Code Press
It's estimated that over two-thirds of smartphone owners now use their mobile device to shop online, according to a survey from eDigitalResearch. As mobile commerce continues to increase each year, safer and more convenient mobile payment options have ...
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QR Code Press
People want banks to administer mobile banking
Mazuma Mobile
According to Richard Wagner, chief executive officer at Advanced Payment Solutions, the media coverage of mobile payment security has made it a hot topic. "O2 and Vodafone have a lot of money to try and convince customers, but what we've seen is as ...
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My Mobile Payments floats operations in Britain
Economic Times
The company will contribute its mobile payment technology and MoM brand name for a 50% stake in the offshore JV, while all opexrelated investments would be handled by the British partner. Apart from topping up mobile talk-time, MMPL offers cellphone ...
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Smart forges remittance, microinsurance tie-ups
Philippine Star
The latest tie-up by the country's leading mobile phone company is with mHITs, a pioneering developer and operator of mobile payment services in Australia. The SMS (text messaging) mobile wallet service of mHITs expands the low cost international ...
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PayAnywhere iOS App Gets a Performance Boost
PYMNTS.com
Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, PayAnywhere is the payment industry's only enterprise-grade, "pay-as-you-go" mobile payment solution suited for any size merchant. With PayAnywhere there are no hidden fees; no setup, monthly or ...
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TPago expands services across Latin America
Mobile Payments Today
GCS International, a mobile payment platform provider for the Dominican Republic, announced it will expand its footprint to include Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Puerto Rico. The tPago platform lets users pay bills, make person-to-person money ...
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Corethree enters mobile wallet race
Mobile Payments Today
Related Content. A terminal case of m-commerce · Square and Starbucks to form mobile payment partnership · Square and Starbucks to form mobile payment … Webinar to discuss strategies for successfully marketing mobile applications · Webinar to discuss ...
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Parkmobile Launches Tuesday in Downtown Birmingham
Patch.com
"Parkmobile is very excited to launch our mobile payment parking service in Birmingham," Parkmobile's CEO Albert Bogaard said in a recent statement. "With this technology, customers no longer have to search for change at their destination. Our mobile ...
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VeriFone partners on Mexico NFC pilot with Banamex
Mobile Payments Today
VeriFone Systems Inc. announced that it is providing merchant payment solutions for the first phase of Mexican bank Banamex's contactless payment trial in Mexico City. This is the first large-scale contactless payment rollout in Mexico City, the ...
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10 mobile apps for savvy shoppers
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
That explains the coffee company's big deal with Square last week for a mobile payment solution. But what other mobile shopping applications are American smartphone shoppers using? New data from Nielsen suggests that big brands have the edge in ...
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Starbucks Deal Expected to be a Major Boost for Square's App
Daily Deal Media
A Forrester analyst has described Starbucks Coffee Company's decision to accept Square's payment application as a major development in the mobile payment and digital wallets arena. Forrester analyst Denée Carrington, in a new blog post, mentioned that ...
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Daily Deal Media
Social Will Move Mobile Payments to the Next Level
Business Insider
That social momentum will grease the skids for a mobile payment and commerce explosion. Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are under pressure to monetize that social engagement, more of which is occurring on the go. Some companies such as ...
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KOBIL Develops the World's First Headphone Jack Chip Card Reader for iPhone ...
Equities.com
The device is to be used for mobile payment functions with debit and credit cards. KOBIL has developed a security concept based on the PCI standards and additionally protects the payment Apps with KOBIL SSMS Server and KOBIL mIDentity AST.
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Simfy music streaming coming for SA: all the details
MyBroadband
Mobile payment only. R60/month: monthly package with either once-off or automatic renewal options. Mobile or credit card payment. 3 months, 6 months or yearly packages: once-off payment by credit card. No prices listed. The website states that there ...
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MyBroadband
Is Astérix the answer? Deutsche Telekom's quest for life after voice
GigaOM
Mobile payment committee holds promise for more cooperation. Some of the biggest players in the mobile payment space including the four U.S. mobile carriers, Google,... Berlin start-ups seen ripe for money as GP Bullhound moves in. Tech start-up buzz ...
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GigaOM
Brightcove falls On Analysts Note (LEAP, SBUX, TEVA, IOC, BCOV)
Gaining Green
The Company will invest $25 million in Square Inc.'s Mobile payment system to roll out the technology in 7000 stores. This will allow its customers to easily pay their bills using mobile phones. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:TEVA ...
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Pay-By-Phone: Smart, Convenient, And Inherently Unfair
Popular Mechanics
Isis, which is backed by several cellular and credit card companies, plans to bundle loyalty cards, debit cards, and credit card accounts into a mobile-payment app. Manas Mohapatra, an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission's mobile technology unit ...
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Popular Mechanics
Comment: Cyber thieves are smarter than you think
Retail Week
I mention this because recent mobile payment efforts—and especially the latest strategy outlined by Google Wallet—seem to be dangerously embracing the vault strategy. Even worse, it's embracing a vault integrated with cloud strategy, which seems to ...
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Retail Week

Blogs3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Google, PayPal, VeriFone and US carriers form Mobile Payments ...
By Steven Sande
... isn't on the Mobile Payments Committee, nor is Microsoft. It is surprising that Square, which has built a huge following with its cross-platform mobile payment system, isn't on the committee. For more details, check out the press release below.
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Utiba Expands Hosted Service Offering to Global Market | Mobile ...
By Editor
This innovative business model significantly lowers the mobile payment provider's entry barriers, time to market, and total cost of ownership (TCO), allowing them to focus on their core skills of marketing, customer acquisition and retention and ...
Mobile Money Africa
Big Week for Bump: App Crosses 100M Total Downloads | PandoDaily
By Whitney Phaneuf
It's been a big year with Bump releasing two new iPhone apps in 2012, peer-to-peer mobile payment app Bump Pay and photo-sharing and grouping app Flock, plus Bump 3.0. Instead of adding to the 3.0 release, Bump deleted its calendar, ...
PandoDaily

Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best for Your Business? | Inc.com
Square, Intuit, GoPago, PayPal. Which mobile payment service works best for your business? Here's how six top contenders stack up.
www.inc.com/maeghan.../mobile-payments-key-players.html
The Pros and Cons of Mobile Payment Services | Entrepreneur.com
From fee structures to device compatibility and support, here are the differences between mobile payment providers you should know about before getting ...
www.entrepreneur.com/article/224181
Convenience, Mobile Payment, and Geo-targeting - JCP, JMBA ...
Jamba Juice (NASDAQ: JMBA) decided to work with Paypal on its own mobile payment initiative, and several factors that help Starbucks could also work in ...
beta.fool.com/enovinson/2012/08/09/convenience.../9071/
Birmingham Announces Mobile Payment Options with Parkmobile ...
The city of Birmingham announced a planned Tuesday launch for its Parkmobile mobile parking payment service. Motorists can now pay for parking with cell ...
detroit.cbslocal.com/.../birmingham-announces-mobile-payme...



You’re Invited: PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards Live Web Ceremony

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BOSTON--()--PYMNTS.com, the premier source of news, commentary and innovation in payments, is pleased to invite you to the first annualPYMNTS.com Innovator Awards live web ceremony on August 15th at noon ET sponsored by MasterCard, Discover and TSYS.
The PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards are designed to recognize the most creative and disruptive innovators across the broad payments sector. The selection process was a comprehensive look inside the sector that is moving the payments industry forward.
After over 4,000 votes and countless judging rounds, the winners have finally been selected. Want to know which is the most disruptive company in payments? Or who has the best technology? Tune in on August 15th to see PayPal and Google duke it out for most disruptive.
A leading panel of payments industry experts including David Evans and Karen Webster of Market Platform Dynamics; Hans Morris, General Atlantic; Dan Rosen, Highland Capital Partner; Dick Schmalensee, MIT Sloan School; and Matthew Witheiler, Flybridge Capital Partners will be giving industry insights as well as presenting the finalists awards.
The finalists by category are:
  • Most Innovative: edo Interactive, Kabbage, Mitek Systems, Square, and WePay
  • Best Technology: Braintree, ROAM Data, Stripe, and VoicePay
  • Best Newcomer: LevelUp, Paydiant, and SWIFT EXCHANGE
  • Most Disruptive: Google, Payfone, PayPal
  • Most Invisible: MicroBilt, Online Resources, and XYverify
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Beall’s Selects Next-Generation VeriFone Multimedia Payment System


Sunbelt Retail Chain Opts for VeriFone MX 915, NFC and EMV Enabled Consumer-Facing Payment Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif.--()--VeriFone Systems, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), today announced it has been awarded a contract to supply the Beall’s, Inc., retail chain with the recently introduced MX 915, VeriFone’s advanced payment and media-enabled solutions system in a space-saving form factor. Beall’s also will be complementing the MX 915 with VeriFone HQ, an advanced estate management solution allowing them to easily keep stores up to date with evolving payment and mobile solutions.
“We were delighted with MX 915 and the alignment with our store systems modernization project to provide flexible payment solutions to our family of Outlet stores”
Introduced in January, the MX 915 is one of the first models in the new customer-facing MX 900 series, with a brilliant 4.3" color display, powerful processor and generous memory. MX 900 Series systems provide the broadest compatibility available with rapidly evolving mobile/NFC wallets, EMV smartcards, and alternative payment methods, and easily adapt as more payment methods are introduced.
“We were delighted with MX 915 and the alignment with our store systems modernization project to provide flexible payment solutions to our family of Outlet stores,” said Dave Massey SVP/CIO. “As a customer facing device, we are pleased with the new sleek lines of the device and the crisp color display. From the technical perspective, this solution sets the framework for Beall’s to readily adapt to future mobile/NFC and EMV supporting a full complement of payment transactions. Additionally, Beall’s will be taking advantage of the VeriFone HQ software to facilitate our management of these devices.”
Beall's, Inc. is the parent company of Beall's Department Stores, Inc, Beall's Outlet Stores, Inc., and Burke's Outlet Stores, LLC. The corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates over 530 retail store sites in states across the Sun Belt, from Florida to California.
“Beall’s recognizes that multimedia-enabled payment solutions create intelligent interaction between retailers and consumers,” said Jennifer Miles, VeriFone executive vice president, North America. “With VeriFone’s MX 900 series, retailers are prepared for the new era of NFC apps and EMV payments and can push relevant content to consumers on the fly, accept mobile wallets, offer digital couponing and loyalty programs, and connect with location-based social media.”


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JPMorgan Says Credit-Card Swipe-Fee Case Cost Bank $1.2 Billion

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JPMorgan Says Credit-Card Swipe-Fee Case Cost Bank $1.2 Billion

Aug.  (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. credit-card lender, will contribute about $1.2 billion to settle a price-fixing case brought by retailers over credit-card swipe fees.  JPMorgan agreed to cover about 20 percent of a $6.05 billion deal to settle claims that the bank conspired with MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. to rig credit-card processing fees, the New York-based bank said today in a filing.



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DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG : Next step in implementation of payment strategy

Deutsche Mark
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ePaymentNews for NFC Mobile Payment
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG : Next step in implementation of payment strategy
4-traders

With the technical implementation of online, store-based and mobile payment in the safe and experienced hands of specialist Wirecard, we can concentrate on our core business," explains Peter Vesco, Senior Vice President, Business Unit Payment at ...

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Elisa launches NFC payments trial in Finland

Blogs3 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Elisa launches NFC payments trial in Finland | Mobile content ...
Elisa Oyj
Elisa Oyj (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

All your salted fish requirements met contactlessly. Finnish operator Elisa will begin testing 'Elisa Lompakko' contactless payment services with more than 100000 students this autumn. It's working with Lyyra to put NFC stickers on handsets.


Mobile Entertainment: Stream
Major US carriers, Google form mobile payments alliance, Apple not ...
By Christian Zibreg
Apple is conspicuously absent from the list, as is mobile payment startup Square, which last week announced an interesting partnership with Starbucks. The iPhone maker, of course, is believed to be putting NFC circuitry inside the next ...
iDownloadBlog.com
With gov't support, NFC comes to Singapore | Enterprise Innovation
By a38c77c84a68365538a62009357af1e9
The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore is supporting the forthcoming launch of a mobile payment services in Singapore using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
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Google, Carriers, Credit Cards Unite on Mobile Payments Committee

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Google, Carriers, Credit Cards Unite on Mobile Payments Committee
eWeek
In July 2011, American Express and Sprint announced a mobile payments deal, and a month later, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile said they were putting $100 million into Isis, a mobile payment solution that, like Wallet, relies on near-field communication ...
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NFC Mobile Payments in-depth look - ioTechie | News on Technology

Web NFC Mobile Payment
NFC Mobile Payments in-depth look - ioTechie | News on Technology
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For those still in the dark about contactless payments, it's a system that uses Near Field Communication (NFC) chips in cards to pay for goods, typically u.


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Mobile Payments | MediaFile | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
GPS mobile payments are at the opposite end of the conceptual spectrum from NFC, and therein lies their power. NFC is specifically designed to work only over ...
blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/tag/mobile-payments/
nfc-mobile-payment-stock | TechnoBuffalo
... exynos-s3 Samsung Reveals Exynos 5 Dual Mobile Processor · Tegra Tuesdays - Asus Transformer Prime - 32GB - Giveaway ... nfc-mobile-payment- stock ...
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NFC services go live in Singapore | Enterprise Innovation
Thumbnail: The Gemalto-led consortium announced its readiness to launch mobile payment services using the near field communication (NFC) technology.
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What Square's Starbucks Deal Means For Mobile Payments And An Apple iWallet

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
What Square's Starbucks Deal Means For Mobile Payments And An Apple iWallet
Cult of Mac
Last week's announcement that Starbucks is partnering with Square for mobile payments and credit card processing is big news for the nascent U.S. mobile payments market. It was also a warning shot ... Fast Company's Sarah Kessler took a look at why ...
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Beall's Selects Next-Generation VeriFone Multimedia Payment System

News2 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
How Cheap NFC Innovation Changes Mobile Payment Race
Mobiledia
South Korea's Sunchon National University and Paru Printed Electronics Research Institute partnered to develop a cheap way to print circuits used for NFC, which transmits data over very short distances between two devices containing NFC chips.
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Beall's Selects Next-Generation VeriFone Multimedia Payment SystemVirtual-Strategy MagazineMX 900 Series systems provide the broadest compatibility available with rapidly evolving mobile/NFC wallets, EMV smartcards, and alternative payment methods, and easily adapt as more payment methods are introduced. "We were delighted with MX 915 ...See all stories on this topic »



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