Saturday, October 20, 2012

18 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for October 20th

ePaymentNews delivering 14 new results for "Mobile Payment"
With or without Apple, NFC mobile payment market to hit $100 billion
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Yahoo! News (blog)

A number of industry watchers have voiced concerns that touchless mobile payment solutions will not truly find widespread adoption until Apple (AAPL) joins the fray and adds the functionality to its popular iPhone line of smartphones. While Apple has ...


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Heartland Payment Systems introduces new mobile payment acceptance solution
Equities.com
Oct 20, 2012 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., a provider of bankcard payment processing services, has introduced Mobuyle mobile payment acceptance solution for Apple iOS mobile devices, enabling merchants to take credit, ...
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Isis Mobile Payment System will debut on October 22nd
The Droid Guy
Isis Mobile Payment system will officially launch on Monday, October 22nd. This is after its supposed September debut was pushed back for some reason. In the United States, three of the biggest carriers (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile) are backing up this ...
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The Droid Guy
Commentary: mobile payment bench testing
Mobile Payments Today
People often assume that financial transactions on mobile platforms will 'just work'. They'd better; enough companies are depending on them for their continued financial health. So it was interesting to test a few of the leading platforms and networks ...
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Spindle Announces Partnership With Utiba
Stockhouse
Addressing the needs of 'unbanked, underbanked and banked' consumers and merchants, Utiba's platform allows its customers to offer a reliable and secure mobile payment service through mobile devices, e-commerce sites and point-of-sale locations.
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Etisalat focuses on value added services
gulfnews.com
We also demonstrated several innovations in emerging technologies such as Near Field Communications (NFC), Flous – our mobile payment service – and a wide range of M2M solutions. In addition, Gitex visitors could experience the new developments with ...
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Mobile commerce application from Zoompass purchased by Paymobile
QR Code Press
... have new mobile payment SDKS option from Total-Apps · PayDragon takes new approach to mobile commerce and payments to dodge lineups · New research shows that PayPal is central to mobile commerce · Atos unveils new mobile payment application ...
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Who will win the digital wallet wars?
PC Advisor
Visa Europe unveils new mobile payment system to rival PayPal · Visa to launch mobile wallet in U.S. this fall · Visa's mobile payment plan 'most comprehensive to date' · PayPal unveils mobile payments for in-store shopping · Google Wallet gets ...
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Why is Isis a big deal?
Mobile Payments Today (blog)
Mobile payment's time has now arrived. With tens of millions of phones in the U.S. ready to be used in hundreds of thousands of stores. Considering the U.S. has an average phone replacement rate of 18 months, and with these firsts, I'll put my neck out ...
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What going cashless means for your privacy
TechHive
Because mobile payment systems are still relatively new, their creators are still working out the kinks. In February, security firm Zvelo discovered that a brute-force attack could crack PINs in Google Wallet, Google's NFC-based payments system. In ...
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TechHive
Zain recognized at Telecoms World Middle East Awards 2012 in Dubai
AME Info
Zain Jordan's 'Roaming Plus' service allows customers to remain connected at reasonable, transparent rates while travelling internationally, while the 'Emal' service is a mobile payment solution. 'Emal' allows customers a convenient way to perform ...
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Sequent buys ViVOTech's software group
Mobile Payments Today
ViVOTech has found a buyer for its software division: Trusted Service Manager and software provider Sequent. The news was announced this morning. With the acquisition, Sequent said it is now supporting a wide range of industry-leading customers ...
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Earnings Preview : Broadcom Corporation - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
... to drive further growth on the back of increased traction in smartphones from China Unicom along with introduction of new smartphones powered by Broadcom's near field communications (NFC) chip solution for both connectivity as well as mobile payment.
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Canada : VENTURE capital company to open office in CHICAGO [TendersInfo ...
Equities.com
In addition, New Enterprise Associates will spend a $35 million in Braintree, a Chicago-based firm that works to offer online and mobile payment solutions. The mayor, earlier this week announced ChicagoNEXT, a new council of technology and business ...
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Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Isis, yet another mobile-payment outfit, to launch trials Oct. 22 ...
The venture, a partnership between Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile, said as many as 20 compatible handsets would be in the market by the end of the ...
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China to issue national mobile payment standard|Policies|chinadaily ...
Officials from the People's Bank of China said that China will issue a national mobile payment standard as early as the end of the year.
europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/.../content_15832673.htm
Mobito picks Oberthur for mobile payment service
Oberthur Technologies, one of the world's largest providers of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, ...
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Mobile Payment Tools & Mark Z. Danielewski Advice: Top Stories of ...
For your weekend reading pleasure, here are the most popular AppNewser headlines of the ...
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Google Wallet Exec: No Surprise Digital Payments are Slow Going

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ePaymentNews 1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
Google Wallet Exec: No Surprise Digital Payments are Slow Going ...
By Ina Fried
It took 50 years for the credit card to become the dominant means of payment, so it shouldn't be surprising that mobile payments haven't immediately taken off. Everyone ... NFC will also find its way into many other places in the logistics chain.
AllThingsD



Mobile payments may be slowly adopted among American shops and consumers

News 1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
Mobile payments may be slowly adopted among American shops and consumers
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This perspective has aligned closely with the suggestion that U.S. NFC technology adoption could be slow. A panel of mobile payments experts have stated that American adoption of near field communications may experience notable delays. According to the ...
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24 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for October 19

News24 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Payment System Isis Eyes October 22 Launch Date
Complex.com (blog)
Mobile Payment System Isis Eyes October 22 Launch Date. Isis is looking to shake up the mobile payment market—one dominated currently by PayPal, Square, and Google Wallet—when it launches, after a few delays, on October 22. Isis is a joint venture ...
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China to issue national mobile payment standard
China Daily
Officials from the People's Bank of China said that China will issue a national mobile payment standard as early as the end of the year. They added that that the country is likely to conduct mobile payment trials in Chengdu and Ningbo. Li Xiaofeng ...
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Infrastructure hurdle to exploiting N1.12trn mobile payment market
BusinessDay
Nigeria's mobile payment market is worth $7.2 billion (N1.12 trillion) according to Accenture, however the prevalence of poor infrastructure is hindering its take off. Mobile money operators and financial institutions need to do a better job of clearly ...
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BusinessDay
New mobile payment testing solution offered by Clear2Pay, TestPlant
Mobile Payments Today
Payment technology provider Clear2Pay and testing solution company TestPlant have announced a joint effort to offer a new test solution for the mobile payment space. The aptly named Mobile Payment App Test Solution will allow companies looking to enter ...
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eBay's Marketplaces Growth Picks Up As PayPal's Surge Continues
NASDAQ
The company credits its m-commerce and mobile payment initiatives as the primary driver of growth. Payment revenues once again led the growth with a 23% increase while marketplace followed at 10%. eBay competes primarily with Google ( GOOG ) ...
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Will Apple Revolutionize the Mobile Payment Market with its Passbook?
Daily Deal Media
apple, passbook, dailydealmedia.com To say that Apple is banking on its Passbook Mobile Payment feature to revolutionize the mobile commerce market would be an understatement. Indeed, Apple wants to make itself a bank (in the literal sense) where ...
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Daily Deal Media
Immobilized: 4 Reasons the Mobile Wallet Revolution Isn't Going Anywhere
DailyFinance
In fact, only 9% of U.S. mobile phone owners have made a purchase with a contactless point-of-sale payment in the last year, and of the $20.7 billion in mobile retail payments this year, only $400 million (a hair under 2%) came from POS mobile payment.
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Breadcrumb Joins Groupon, Offers Payment App for Hospitality Businesses
Small Business Trends
Groupon is partnering with Breadcrumb to bring businesses an iPad-based mobile payment service. The point-of-sale system is aimed at local restaurants, bars, and similar small businesses, and can be used in place of a traditional cash register system.
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Small Business Trends
Levallois, France and Boston, United States :
IT News Online
"MOBITO is a truly unique service and we are excited to be the strategic partner enabling the creation of this universal mobile payment ecosystem in the Czech Republic. This service will continue to evolve and adapt as the market for mobile payments ...
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Fraudsters: Catch Them If You Can
CFO.com Magazine
Although businesses are increasingly becoming more paperless, Abagnale said on an American Institute of Certified Public Accountants's (AICPA) webcast last week, and despite the technological mobile-payment advancements available today, business ...
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NACS Show Tech Tidbytes
CSPnet.com
The discussion includes everything from business intelligence to mobile payment, with "cloud" computing part of the equation. Outsite Networks:Loyalty solutions provider; Norfolk, Va. In addition to providing loyalty solutions tied to couponing as well ...
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Italian mobile operators to develop NFC platform
Telecompaper (subscription)
Italian operators Telecom Italia, Vodafone Italia, Wind, 3 Italia and PosteMobile have signed an agreement for the development of a mobile payment platform based on NFC with the goal of guaranteeing full interoperability based on GSMA standards, ...
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Apple's iPod Touch is fast becoming the new cash register
InfoWorld
I suspect many small stores will keep their counters but dump the large cash register in favor of the mobile payment terminal, one that very likely will have an iPod Touch at the core. The use of a sled around the iPod Touch means that the clerks can ...
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Mobile sector rings up success
Viet Nam News
Meanwhile, the country's oldest telecom giant Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), the owner of Vinaphone and MobiFone mobile networks, focused on valued-added services such as mobile payment, mobile education and mobile games ...
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Boston startup moving money
Boston Herald
Scvnger's mobile-payment unit doubles biz. Jessica Van Sack By Jessica Van Sack Friday, October 19, 2012 - Updated 2 hours ago + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio. Chief Enterprise Reporter Jessica Van Sack is an award-winning ...
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Bango's One Billion Milestone
CisionWire (press release)
Bango (AIM: BGO) is proud to announce that its mobile payment platform is now accessible to more than one billion mobile subscribers. This mobile industry milestone demonstrates the knowledge that operator billing – charging purchases to a phone bill ...
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Validity Sensors Raising $20M From Qualcomm, TeleSoft To Bring Fingerprint ...
TechCrunch
With the exploding growth of mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services, new (or better) forms of security are needed to protect our data both in the cloud and on the go, especially considering the expected growth of mobile payments — and ...
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Wendy's Names VML as Digital Agency of Record
Sacramento Bee
The company recently introduced the My Wendy's mobile nutrition app, is developing a new consumer website, and is testing several new digital in-restaurant experiences like mobile payment and digital offers. They were recently ranked #2 for impact in ...
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Jack Dorsey: Say Customer, Not 'User'
PC Magazine
In a post on his Tumblr, Jack Dorsey said his mobile payment firm, Square, is "removing the term 'users' from our vocabulary, replacing it with 'customers', and the more specific 'buyers', and 'sellers.' The word customer, given its history ...
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Abu Dhabi-based Investment Group acquires stake in Masterpayment
National Post
We undertook a comprehensive review of the market and identified Masterpayment as the pioneer and innovation leader in the field of e-commerce and mobile payment solutions. The company's business model is flexible, and international markets in ...
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Google Opens Up Data Centers; Square Ends NYC Taxi Beta; AMD Layoffs ...
PC Magazine
In other news, Square, the mobile payment company from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, abruptly pulled out of a pilot program to bring its technology to New York City cabs. San Francisco-based Square said it was ending its trial after seven months ...
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Venture capital firm to open Chicago office
San Francisco Chronicle
New Enterprise Associates also announced a $35 million investment in Braintree, a Chicago-based company that works to provide online and mobile payment solutions. Emanuel has made investing in technology and bringing high-tech companies to ...
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Privacy Patrol from 3M Helps Those in Need of Privacy
PYMNTS.com
... from 3M Helps Those in Need of Privacy · Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Joins with New York Attorney General for Enhanced Transparency in Cause Marketing Standards · Kronos to Participate in Cloud Summit · NFC Mobile Payment Transaction Spend to ...
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Charlie Rose Talks to Sprint Nextel's Dan Hesse
Businessweek
They've implemented, for example, mobile payment technology in Japan that we haven't yet, so we can learn from their expertise. Once this deal wends its way through the approval process, how will it benefit me, the consumer? What's Sprint's competitive ...
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Blogs1 new result for "Mobile Payment"
EBay adds 800,000 new mobile purchasers in Q3 - Mobile ...
By Chantal Tode
Retailers are embracing PayPal mobile as consumers look for secure mobile payment methods and because it can drive incremental sales. A study commissioned by PayPal from July showed that 35 percent of all mobile sales completed with ...
Mobile Commerce Daily

Web5 new results for "Mobile Payment"
What Your Business Needs to Know About Mobile Payments
Small businesses need a mobile payment solution that address today's needs, supports growth and security, and will stay relevant in the future.
mashable.com/2012/10/13/small-biz-mobile-payments/
Mobile payment in Asia: regulatory changes could stimulate this ...
Analysys Mason delivers strategy advice, operations support, and market intelligence worldwide to leading commercial and public sector organisations in ...
www.analysysmason.com/.../mobile-payment-regulation-Asia-...
Isis mobile payment system announces Oct. 22 launch
(gigaom.com) -- Isis, the joint venture mobile payment system from Verizon, AT&Tand T-Mobile, is now officially set to launch on Oct. 22 after missing its planned ...
money.cnn.com/.../2012_10_17_isis_announces_delayed_lau...
Choose Your Mobile Payment Platform Wisely | Credit Unions
Choose Your Mobile Payment Platform Wisely. Betamax or VHS: Which will be the new normal in mobile payments? And can you afford to choose wrong?
www.creditunions.com/.../choose-your-mobile-payment-platfo...
Chunghwa Telecom launches mobile payment system trial - The ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan --Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest telecom operator, launched a trial project Monday that will enable smartphone users to pay for ...
www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/.../Chunghwa-Telecom.htm



My Walletless Month: A Test of Our Mobile Payment Present and Future

News5 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
My Walletless Month: A Test of Our Mobile Payment Present and Future
Wired
The e-wallet space is blowing up. Isis — an NFC-based mobile-payment platform backed by Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile — is set to launch on Monday. Google Wallet, now almost two years old, is nicely maturing with partnerships with an ever-expanding ...
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Wired
The NFC Revolution: Anticipating Changes in the US Payments Landscape
Broadcast Newsroom
NFC technology is starting to gain traction. Handset manufacturers are including NFC in most of the new mobile devices on the market, and they are heavily advertising the non-payments capabilities it offers. Although NFC payments are still a few years ...
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Why You Should Disable NFC On Your Smartphone?
ValueWalk
NFC is not found in Apple's iPhone, may be the company don't want to integrate NFC to its flagship phone at this stage. NFC cannot only be used for mobile payments but it has got variety of other uses also, such as NFC tags can be used to turn ON WiFi ...
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Will Isis Make Paying With Your Smart Phone Popular?
InformationWeek
Isis is a joint effort by Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA to develop a platform for making payments from mobile devices. Handsets that are enabled with a near-field communications (NFC) chip can communicate with checkout terminals to make ...
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Bangalore-based iKaaz launches mobile payment platform
VC Circle
The company also offers an app, Tap & Pay, using which a bank account holder can initiate money transfers and consumers can complete merchant transactions and pay bills using their mobile phones. With this app, which leverages NFC technology, ...
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iKaaz Launches Mobile Payment Solutions Focusing On NFC

News4 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
iKaaz Launches Mobile Payment Solutions Focusing On NFC
MediaNama.com
For the same, the company has launched Tap & Pay, an NFC based solution for merchants where they can receive payments from customers with just a tap. Merchants will have to provide their customers with an NFC tag that they can stick to their mobile ...

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VIRTUAL PRESS OFFICES TM
ITWeb
... mobile payment ecosystem in the Czech Republic. This service will continue to evolve and adapt as the market for mobile payments expands to include NFC payments capabilities," said Eric Duforest, Managing Director Europe at Oberthur Technologies.

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Poland's mBank plans NFC payment service with T-Mobile
Telecompaper (subscription)
Polish online bank mBank has invested in NFC-based payment technology enabling customers to pay for services and goods using smartphones. The service, in cooperation with the mobile operator T-Mobile Poland and MasterCard, is planned to be ...
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Clear2Pay and TestPlant Launch New Mobile Payment App Test Solution
RFPConnect.com
Simulation: A handset-based mobile application interacts with multiple components like a contactless (NFC) POS device, a payment card application on a UICC, a mobile gateway, etc. By simulating these components, the testers and even developers fully ...
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