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Mobile payments adoption in US could take years

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Mobile payments adoption in US could take years
Computerworld
ISIS is a partnership of three wireless carriers -- AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA -- now deploying NFC payment terminals and related technology for use with NFC phones in Austin and Salt Lake City. Davidson said his prediction might change if ...
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NTT Docomo to take Japanese mobile wallet global
NFC World
Both phones have received MasterCard PayPass certification, bringing the total number of NFC handsets approved by the payments network to more than seventy. Users of the new phones will also be able to make use of Korea's Cashbee prepaid mobile ...
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NTT Docomo partners with Mastercard to extend payment network globally
Campaign Asia-Pacific
The service is scheduled for launch during the first half of next year, at which time customers in Japan using both iD mobile credit payments and NFC compatible Docomo smartphones will have access to the service outside Japan. So far more than 70 ...
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Mobile payments in the US: 'wallet wars' and the Wild West
TechRadar UK
The mobile payment landscape went under the microscope during a roundtable discussion at MobileCon 2012 Thursday, with five executives from leading payment companies breaking down what it will take for the service to get off the ground. Afzal Bari, a ...
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NTT DOCOMO and MasterCard to offer NFC payments in 41 countries
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MasterCard's innovative payment system, MasterCard PayPass, will be available to DOCOMO customers using smartphones equipped with a contactless chip for Osaifu Keitai (mobile phones with wallet functions) services via near field communication (NFC).
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30 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for October 11th

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Telenor makes it easy with mobile payment. Joins Telefónica's BlueVia platform ...
Reuters
(Fornebu - 11 October 2012) Two of the world's largest telecoms groups, Telenor and Telefónica, have teamed up to make Telenor APIs available on Telefónica's BlueVia platform, a shared API platform for building and marketing applications. This is ...
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Retailers To Mobile Payment Players: What's In It For Us?
StorefrontBacktalk
We were hoping this week to find out when Isis will finally launch its mobile payment trials in Salt Lake City and Austin. No such luck: "Imminently" is all Isis Chief Commerce Officer Ed Busby would say at a presentation in New York on Wednesday (Oct ...
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Mobile payment capabilty for parking announced
Mobile Today
M-commerce payments platform provider paythru has announced the development of a mobile payment capability for car parking. paythru will partner parking space management solutions firm Parkeon, with the payment capability being based on Parkeon's ...
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Mobile Today
Mobile Wallets Not Ready for Prime Time, Yet
EcommerceBytes
When asked about the disruptive potential for a cloud-based, software-driven alternative to the current mobile payment environment, which is largely reliant on hardware and near-field communications technologies, the panelists cited security as the ...
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EcommerceBytes
Huge growth in mobile phone payment expected soon
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
"It means networks, banks and retailers need to work together to make it happen." He said that just looking at how quickly the smartphone and iPhone app industry had grown he expected mobile payment to become mainstream sooner than 2025.
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Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Starbucks Digital Tip Effort: Will It Really Translate From Cash To Mobile?
StorefrontBacktalk
When Starbucks announced on October 4 that it plans to add a way for shoppers to tip Starbucks' associates through its mobile app by next summer, the chain confirmed the latest unintended mobile payment consequence. The nature of a coffee chain is such ...
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MOLCube to sign up 1-2 banks onto payment platform by year-end
The Sun Daily
PETALING JAYA (Oct 11, 2012): MOLCube Sdn Bhd, a newly-formed joint venture between MOL AccessPortal Sdn Bhd and Soft Space International Sdn Bhd, expects to sign up one or two banks onto its mobile payment platform by the end of this year, said ...
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Good-bye Plastic, Hello Phone: Mobile Wallets on the Rise
Fox Business
Starbucks CEO and Square CEO on Mobile Payment Deal · Is Google Onto Something with Mobile Payments? Related Stories: Going Mobile? Link Payments to Credit Cards for Best Protection. More FromCardRatings.com: Has iPhone 5 set back new credit ...
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Debit cards steal marketshare from credit cards, mobile payments on the move
iTWire
"There were an estimated 28.3 billion electronic and mobile payment transactions globally in 2011 and in 2010 more than one in three non-cash payments globally was made using a debit card, up 15.2%," Brown says. "But with only 2.1% of all mobile users ...
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Starbucks leaders talk mobile strategies
Amarillo.com (blog)
Starbucks Coffee Co. provided news of its mobile payment plans at a three-day Global Leadership Conference last week in Houston attended by nearly 10,000 store managers. Starbucks Chairman, President and CEO Howard Schultz and Square founder ...
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Cab-hailing app adds mobile payments capabilities
Finextra
The new mobile payment feature will allow drivers to accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners and Laser debit and credit cards for instant hails, pre-bookings and fixed price fares. Passengers can either pre-register their card or drivers can ...
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Finextra
Dwolla Partners With mFoundry, Bringing Real-Time P2P Mobile Payment ...
Mobile-Financial.com
Dwolla Partners With mFoundry, Bringing Real-Time P2P Mobile Payment Capabilities To 800+ U.S. Banks. Sarah Perez. Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 11:06. Online and mobile digital cash network Dwolla is partnering with mobile banking and payments ...
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Globacom Challenges FG On Cashless Economy
AllAfrica.com
He advocated that telecoms companies must be allowed to speak about the capabilities of their networks, the quality of user experience and the choice of mobile payment services available on their networks. He stressed that the passive role to which the ...
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SalesVu Passes Square in Race to Disrupt POS Industry with Free iPad App and ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin-based SalesVu just released its latest mobile payment and point-of-sale application, SalesVu 2.2 for iPhones and iPads. This new update is intended to replace costly server-based POS solutions with a more affordable and reliable ...
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Pinkberry launches mobile app
Chain Store Age
... the app to provide valuable functionality that adds to the Pinkberry experience," said Ron Graves, CEO of Pinkberry. The Pinkcard and mobile app features benefits such as frequency rewards, a flavor finder, e-gifting, mobile payment and social sharing.
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Apple's Passbook Scores Home Run With Major League Baseball
Gotta Be Mobile
The app, which is pre-loaded and part of iOS 6, allows users to load reward cards, mobile payment cards, gift cards, movie tickets, flight boarding passes, and MLB game tickets so that they don't have to carry around paper tickets. And rather than ...
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T-Mobile ready to launch Galaxy Note 2 on October 24th
Technology Bloom News
The Note 2 is also the first Jelly Bean powered device on the T-Mobile network as well and it supports NFC for mobile payment options. The phablet will be pre-loaded with apps and games that include the "Need for Speed: Most Wanted". On the network ...
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Technology Bloom News
Groupon targets checkout, launches Breadcrumb iPad point-of-sale service
VentureBeat
By doing so, Groupon is continuing its move towards becoming a mobile payment player to take on the likes of Square, Intuit, and PayPal. It's also directly competing with other dedicated POS companies like Shopkeep. Groupon also launched Groupon ...
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VentureBeat
Technology to help retailers face FDI
Hindu Business Line
In addition, using a mobile payment solution, they connect a small wireless credit card reader to the smartphone at the customer's location. The mobile smartphone generates the invoice and mails it to the customer. The customer inserts the credit card ...
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Hindu Business Line
Monarch Airlines Launches Booking Website for iPhone
MarketWatch (press release)
Payment can then be made using debit card or PayPal's mobile payment process, both of which incur no booking fee, or credit card, to complete the booking. Monarch's popular Airpacks (Essentials and Extras) can be also booked via the new mobile site, ...
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Dwolla to offer P2P payments service with mFoundry
Telecompaper (subscription)
Online and mobile payment platform Dwolla will now be available to banks or credit unions that have deployed mFoundry's Fin.X platform. Fin.X is the next-generation mobile banking platform from mFoundry, a North American provider of mobile banking and ...
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SAP: Business app popularity paves way for m-commerce
Fiercemobilecontent
Poonen cited several initiatives SAP is currently working on with partners including Telefónica on the future of the mobile wallet and mobile payment opportunities such as paying for cab fares with Wanda. Poonen also referenced data from Cisco that ...
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How much will technology boom change Kenya?
BBC News
It all began with M-Pesa, a text-based mobile payment system that launched in Kenya in 2007. M-Pesa has become phenomenally successful. According to a report by the IMF published in October 2011, M-Pesa "processes more transactions domestically ...
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BBC News
Freeport Capital Inc. (FAS:CNSX) Hybrid PayTech and Precitec Moldings Inc ...
Stockhouse
MONTREAL, Oct. 10, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Hybrid Paytech (CNSX: Freeport Capital - FAS), a leader in mobile payment innovation has announced that the company has teamed up with Precitec Moldings Inc. a Montreal design firm of specialty plastics to ...
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Jack Dorsey Retreats From Operational Role At Twitter To Focus On Square
International Business Times
With Jack Dorsey's mobile payment startup Square quickly becoming one of Silicon Valley's rising stars after a high-profile deal with Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) helped attract renewed investor interest and raise the company to a $3.25 billion valuation ...
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International Business Times
Groupon Wants Everyone To Run Their Business On An iPad
Cult of Mac
You see more and more of them every day: iPads, doubling as cash registers in businesses small and large, thanks to forward-thinking mobile payment companies like Square. Now Groupon, the deals-and-couponing social network, is getting in on the game ...
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Breadcrumb: Groupon Introduces Its Point-Of-Sale Feature To Attract ...
International Business Times
Groupon added a new feature to its mobile payment offerings Wednesday, giving merchants a full point-of-sale technology known as "Breadcrumb." Sponsorship Link. As the cornerstone of traditional physical retail stores like supermarkets and restaurants, ...
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International Business Times
Double Trouble for Toyota.
IT Business Net
... an new prepaid debit card called "Bluebird" designed to target lower income shoppers without bank accounts. The new card will accept payroll deposits and smartphone deposits, while also having mobile payment and person-to-person transfer abilities.
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The Evolution of APIs
IT Business Net
The new card will accept payroll deposits and smartphone deposits, while also having mobile payment and person-to-person transfer abilities. Read More · Hop Suitcase Carries Your Luggage For You. The Hop is a suitcase on caterpillar treads that will ...
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Research and Markets: Account-to-Account and Person-to-Person Transfers ...
PYMNTS.com
Financial institutions: online banking, mobile banking, payments services, marketing; payment services vendors; online banking vendors; payments processors; mobile banking vendors; mobile payment vendors; multichannel vendors. Companies Mentioned ...
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Blogs4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
'Tis The Season of E-commerce: How to Safeguard Against Mobile ...
By Chris Hinkley
In the mobile payment space, it's critical to integrate security in every aspect of your software development lifecycle. And to be a trusted vendor that accepts mobile payments, you must consider security your highest priority.
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NTT DoCoMo Links Up with MasterCard for Overseas Mobile ...
By Josh Ong
NTT DoCoMo and Mastercard are teaming up to allow users of DoCoMo's iD mobile payment system to take advantage of MasterCard's PayPass program.
The Next Web
Beware the Uber-killer. Germany's MyTaxi debuts Stateside | Tnooz
By Sean O'Neill
MyTaxi's mobile payment may make it popular with DC's 30,000-strong, mobile-savvy expense account-toting lobbyist and lawyer set. For one thing, few yellow cabs in DC can accept credit or debit cards, making advance payment by app ...
Tnooz
LevelUp Mobile Pay: $5 Referral Bonus + Free Store Credits » My ...
By Jonathan
Overall, another mobile payment app based on the idea that whipping out a credit card is just too much trouble. I do think there will be a winner in this arena, but competitor Square is already moving towards the concept of leaving both your ...
My Money Blog

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WorldPay launches mobile payment pages for m-commerce
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Square mobile payment coming to Starbucks in Nov - Times Of India
Smartphone-wielding Starbucks customers in the United States will get a new way to pay in early November when the world's biggest coffee chain begins ...
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Telenor makes it easy with mobile payment. Joins Telefónica's ...
From Yahoo! Finance: (Fornebu - 11 October 2012) Two of the world`s largest telecoms groups, Telenor and Telefónica, have teamed up to make Telenor APIs ...
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