Friday, April 27, 2012

31 Mobile Payment News Stories for April 27


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The Concern with Mobile Payments
Connected World Magazine

Earlier this year, the credit-card company unveiled a joint venture to develop Wanda, a mobile payment solution to customers in Latin American markets. Under such an initiative, mobile payment services will be linked to a mobile wallet or prepaid ...
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NRF Urges FTC to Move Cautiously on Mobile Payments
MarketWatch (press release)
Duncan said federal officials need to address a number of issues including a definition of what constitutes a mobile payment. While the term is largely used to mean a payment made in a bricks-and-mortar store using a smartphone, officials need to ...
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Square processing $5B annually, up 25% since PayPal Here launch
Fiercemobilecontent
Square faces competition from a number of rival mobile payment solutions including eBay's PayPal Here, unveiled last month. A small, triangle-shaped dongle that attaches to a phone or tablet's audio jack in the same fashion as Square's own payment ...
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O2 launches mobile money service under financial services 'passport' rules
Out-Law.com
"A key reason that the likes of Apple, Google and now O2 get into mobile payment services is that they can get a lot of data on consumers' spending habits and find ways to make revenues from that asset," he said. O2's terms and conditions state that ...
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Square's Growth 'Off The Charts' as Mobile Payment Pace Spikes 25%
Mobile Marketing Watch
They need to take the money they make today and use it to pay bills, buy things and pay employees the next day, so having access to funds is super-crucial for them." Squares Growth Off The Charts as Mobile Payment Pace Spikes 25 300x202 Squares Growth ...
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Commentary: mobile payments can expose more consumer data and weaken privacy laws
Mobile Payments Today
Nearly all the major smartphone manufacturers, Internet service providers (ISPs), credit card issuers, and tech companies are gearing up to provide consumers with mobile payment services. Many of these services will let consumers buy items in ...
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Madwire Media Announces Partnership with PayLeap to Offer Online Payment ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Catering to merchants, resellers, and developers, PayLeap provides a secure, single-source solution which includes fraud management, tokenized cardholder data vault, secure checkout with LeapLockTM, and mobile payment capabilities.
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Square reports processing $5 billion in transactions annually
Appolicious
Square's mobile payment platform allows users to purchase a specialized credit card reader that can plug into mobile devices such as an iPhone or iPad, effectively turning those devices into mobile cash registers for digital purchases with Square's ...
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O2 to rival Google and PayPal with new mobile payments service
Computing
The application will rival Google Wallet, PayPal and Barclays PingIt, which all offer mobile payment services. O2 said that its new service, dubbed O2 Wallet, can link to consumers' existing Visa and MasterCard credit or debit cards to upload funds, ...
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O2 Wallet underwent security 'stress testing'
BCS
O2 has played up the security prowess of its new mobile payment product, O2 Wallet, saying it has undergone security "stress testing". Much like Barclay's recently launched Pingit app, O2 Wallet allows users to transfer funds to other people using a ...
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Stakeholders challenge CBN, NCC on mobile money security
WorldStage
"The purpose of this symposium is to examine how the Nigerian Telecoms Consumer will be affected by the mobile payment platform being promoted by the Central Bank of Nigeria as a means of achieving a cashless society. However, if as a result of network ...
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Square to process $5 billion in payments this year
IntoMobile
Square, the cool mobile payment platform, is growing increasingly by the day, as the company just released some impressive stats. According to a Bloomberg report, Square is now processing $5 billion in annual payments (or around $416 million in ...
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Optimal Payments wins mobile payments award at mGaming Summit
RFPConnect.com
This included case studies of mobile payment solutions developed for two of its major customers, Shop Direct Group and RSA's MoreTh>n. The full presentation is available on its corporate website at www.optimalpayments.com under Investors, ...
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Buying VeriFone is a Strong Portfolio Solution
Investorplace.com
The third catalyst is the new mobile payment systems we talked about, such as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Wallet and PayPal. VeriFone is in excellent position here even as the game continues to change because it can retrofit its systems to accept these, ...
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Parkmobile USA, Inc. and Central Parking System announce a milestone in ...
Parking Network (press release)
Over the past year Parkmobile and Central Parking have been successful in implementing mobile payment solutions at various Central locations including metropolitan cities. With the Parkmobile solution, a customer running to an appointment or catching a ...
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China m-payments market to be world's largest by 2015
Mobile Entertainment
Mobile payment users reached 218 million at end 2011 and will grow to 441 million users by the end of 2015. * Fewer that ten per cent of China's 900 million mobile phone users use smartphones, leaving tremendous scale for growth.
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Green Dot's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
... payments play out there, and we believe this intellectual property will become highly strategic to Green Dot and our distribution partners as mobile banking, mobile commerce and mobile payment strategies emerge and mature in the years to come.
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Ovum says operators face uncertainty in the expanding mobile payments value chain
The Nation
Ovum's research indicates that the majority of operators are exploring collaborative mobile payment ventures that can leverage collective resources and customers, helping to create the kind of scale that is critical to success.
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US Banks Can Save Themselves with Innovation
Bank Technology News
Hernandez has similarly strong views about the way banks are letting tech-savvy nonbank competitors, such as Square, PayPal and Google, get into the mobile payment business. "The ubiquity and acceptance of technology has surpassed the safety and ...
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Starbucks' CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
We are also at the forefront of mobile payment convenience and capability, where our mobile app has generated more than 45 million mobile payment transactions over the last 14 months, making Starbucks the largest and most widely embraced mobile payment ...
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On The Current State Of e-Commerce In India; Cash Vs Cashless
MediaNama.com
While in previous dicussions it was asserted that majority of Indian eCommerce users are more comfortable with COD rather than going cashless, cashless and mobile payment still have a long way to go. Neel Chowdhury, Vice President and CMO, ...
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Pivotal Payments announces first quarter performance
Sacramento Bee
The company recently announced a partnership with NetSecure Payments to develop a mobile payment application for smartphones and tablets. In January, the company signed a payment services agreement with TSYS, the world's largest processor of merchant ...
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O2 launches text money transfer app
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O2 Money's managing director James Le Brocq said: 'O2 wallet has been trialled internally for months and has undergone extensive stress testing with security experts. This is, we believe, the safest and most secure way to deliver mobile payment ...
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Apple's patent suggests iTunes media gifting via NFC
Ubergizmo
While NFC has primarily been the focus of mobile payment services, the patent shows Apple considering NFC as a means for iPhone users to gift another iPhone owner a song simply by tapping phones together. According to the patent, it works similarly to ...
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O2 launches UK's first digital wallet scheme
Rethink Wireless
″O2 Mobile Wallet is a flagship, feature packed service that has clearly been designed to face the increasing threat of mobile payment services from over-the-top players such as Google Wallet and PayPal, and of course other operators,″commented Eden ...
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China payments to hit $80bn
NFC World
The Chinese mobile payment market is expected to be worth more than US$80bn with some 441m active users by 2015, according to new research from Kapronasia. China has already surpassed the US as the biggest smartphone market worldwide, ...
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What Jim McKelvey wants you to do… and how I beat Watson at Jeopardy!
St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
One was a speech by local tech entrepreneur Jim McKelvey, a co-founder of mobile payment processor Square. McKelvey's resume reads like what you would get if you picked a dozen resumes from a pile at a career fair and spliced bits and pieces of them ...
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Six Penny Stocks on the Move with Heavy Volume to Watch for Friday
Fyxnews
NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. provides a suite of software and hardware for processing 1D and 2D barcodes in the mobile environment, and enabling applications in mobile marketing, mobile couponing, mobile ticketing and mobile payment.
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SPH wins Best RFID Project Implementation at Smart Card Awards Asia
AsiaOne
... and the Google Wallet which lets consumers use their PN65-powered Google Nexus S or Galaxy Nexus phones as their wallets by tapping on contactless POS terminals to make secure, mobile payment, update loyalty cards or send coupon.
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Google selling SketchUp to Trimble
Boulder County Business Report
Google will retain a significant and expanding presence in Boulder, where its team works on Google Apps and Google Wallet, a mobile payment platform. "Google's commitment to Boulder is just going to continue to grow," Green said.
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Google's Galaxy Nexus has distinct software image, international version ...
Android Authority
Google has thrown in a $10 starting credit in the Google Wallet for all the Nexus devices, so it's pretty obvious that the search giant is intending to push its mobile payment service forward at all costs. On the other hand, if you don't care about ...
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Kazor.com World Community News » Mobile Payment: PAY ...
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Munich, Bavaria ( Kazor ) April 26, 2012 – In cooperation with the Munich-based company payworks,PAY.ON AG establishes a development partnership for mobile payment solutions. payworksGmbH develops both turnkey white-label ...
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Making Sense of Mobile Payments
By ellie
Mobile payment definitely has its perks: it's quick, convenient and some systems even offer lower credit card transaction fees to merchants. But there are plenty of problems, and one of the largest questions surrounding mobile payments is how ...
NerdWallet Credit Card Blog
NRF urges FTC to move cautiously on regulating mobile payments
Duncan said federal officials need to address a number of issues including a definition of what constitutes a mobile payment. While the term is largely used to mean a payment made in a bricks-and-mortar store using a smartphone, officials ...
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Now you can text money to a friend
"In additional to PINs and passwords, all personal details and financial data are held on remote central servers rather than on the mobile device itself. This, we believe, is the safest and most secure way to deliver mobile payment services." ...
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O2 launches mobile money wallet service (UK) | Wireless Federation
By Editor
This, they believe, is the safest and most secure way to deliver mobile payment services. Sandra Alzetta, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Visa Europe, added that they welcome the launch of O2 Wallet and are delighted to be enabling the ...
Wireless Federation
In Canada, phones poised to challenge credit cards | Mobile | FP ...
Phone companies, credit card providers and banks in Britain, Japan and South Korea have tried to set up mobile payment systems, but none have yet lived up to the hype. In South Korea, for example, residents have used touch-and-go mass ...
FP Top Stories List
Commerce Weekly: Mobile commerce is on the rise globally - O ...
By Jenn Webb
The post pointed out that similar mobile payment options are common in England, "but the T would be the first major US commuter rail to offer passengers an alternative to paper." MBTA officials also told Boston.com they will use the new app ...
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Opera 12 Beta Gains A Lot, Loses A Little | WebProNews
By Zach Walton
Opera Payment Exchange Taking Mobile Payments Around The World. Everybody is getting into the mobile payment business these days. While Google Wallet has been one of the most talked about (and hacked) mobile payment options, ...
WebProNews

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With O2 Wallet, The Disruptive Mobile Payment Space Is Heating Up ...
We believe that the O2 Wallet is, for now, the most comprehensive mobile payment solution in the UK – available to a majority of smartphone owners, whether ...
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O2 UK launch mobile payment app, will also come to Windows ...
O2 has launched the O2 Wallet in the UK – a mobile payment system that will offer money messaging, shopping comparison and more. The O2 Wallet will allow ...
wmpoweruser.com/o2-uk-launch-mobile-payment-app-will-al...
Pivotal Payments, NetSecure partner for mobile payment app
US payment services provider Pivotal Payments has entered a partnership with mobile and e-commerce services provider NetSecure Payments to develop a ...
www.thepaypers.com/news/mobile.../pivotal.../747371-16



Samsung Crushes Earnings to Become World's Biggest Cellphone Maker

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A two-horse race... Apple and Samsung.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported a record quarterly profit on Friday, as its Galaxy smartphones and Note phone/tablet helped it win market share from Nokia and as it outmuscled Japanese rivals in TVs and memory chips.
Samsung did not break out its first-quarter smartphone and handset shipments, but analysts forecast it ended Nokia's 14-year leadership of the global cellphone market, outselling the struggling Finnish company for the first time.





Mobile Fix - Visa say half their business will be mobile by 2020

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TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: Eftpos' innovation complication
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Business Spectator
Both Visa and MasterCard have made moves towards innovation on the payment frontier. For example, both companies are working with Coles and Woolworths to introduce NFC payment systems to their checkouts. Meanwhile, the likes of Paypal and Square are ...

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Mobile Fix - Visa say half their business will be mobile by 2020
MediaTel Newsline
We attended an interesting event for SimplyTap this week, the retailer driven mobile payments service that Visa recently invested in. With a good turn out of retail heavyweights (it's a long time since we were in a room with so many people with ...
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Ivy got news for you: Intel's latest superchips launch
TechRadar UK
According to O2 Money MD James Le Brocq, "additional functionality will soon enable consumers to use O2 Wallet to top-up mobile airtime, buy train tickets and make mobile contactless payments via NFC technology." We've been promised mobile payments for ...
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Denizbank Joins Turkcell's NFC Platform

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Denizbank Joins Turkcell's NFC Platform
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Mobile Europe
Denizbank has joined Turkcell Cep-T Cuzdan Platform, enabling its customers to make contactless payment with their handsets using Near Field Communications ("NFC") technology. Denizbank, differentiating itself with innovative and technological products ...

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Wave and communicate: the possibilities of NFC and email
The Drum
The buzz generated by Near Field Communications (NFC) has been becoming louder in recent months as uptake of the technology continues apace. The newest entrants into this marketplace have focused on the payments space, with Mastercard PayPass, ...
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RFID and NFC Technology Magic: Hotel Keys Vanish Into Thin Air

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NFC Technology Magic: Hotel Keys Vanish Into Thin Air ...
By Carly Curran
For instance, Google has positioned itself at the leading edge of mobile payment technology with Google Wallet, a mobile payment app for Android phones that stores banking information and allows the phone to be used in lieu of a credit card ...
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O2 opens Wallet to enter mobile payments race - Technology Today
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San Francisco Luxury News
O2 said they would include near field communication (NFC) technology, which allows people to pay for goods by touching a phone against a reader, in the near future. The system requires a user to set up an O2 Wallet account and load money onto it via a ...

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O2 launch mobile wallet app for text message payments
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The mobile network aims to permit all users of mobiles with near-field communication (NFC) chips to make contactless payments with their phones in high street shops. 02 and other leading firms have begun charging retailers a transaction fee to support ...
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O2 Wallet Offers Money Messaging And A Lot More
TechWeekEurope UK
O2 Wallet is set to challenge Google Wallet, Barclay's Pingit, PayPal and other players in the emerging mobile payment market. It does not support Near Field Communication (NFC) yet, but there are plans to work with NFC once it is available on a ...
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Telekom Austria launches 'paybox NFC' mobile payment solution

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Telekom Austria launches 'paybox NFC' mobile payment solution ...
Paybox NFC enables customers to use their NFC-enabled smartphone to make mobile payments for transactions of up to EUR25 without having to enter a PIN ...
www.paymenteye.com/.../telekom_austria_launches_paybox_...
PayByPhone Adds NFC to Mobile Payments for ... - Yahoo! Finance
Pay By Phone Launch
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From Yahoo! Finance: PayByPhone, a leading international provider of systems for parking and urban mobility payments is pleased to announce Ottawa as the ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../paybyphone-adds-nfc-mobile-payments...
Google Alert - "Mobile Payment" | NFC Mobile Payment Industry ...
The joint venture would have "very high market shares" in growing markets for mobile-payment applications, mobile advertising and data-analytic services, ...
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Canada leading race to deliver NFC payment system | Electronista
While NFC systems have been set up in other countries for commuters, Japan and ... However, while getting a mobile payment system off the ground in Canada ...
www.electronista.com/.../canada.close.to.standardized.nfc.pay...
PayByPhone / Home
PayByPhone Adds NFC to Mobile Payments for Ottawa's Parking Spaces. Ottawa becomes the first Canadian city to incorporate Near Field Communications for ...
paybyphone.com/ottawa-nfc/
O2 Wallet promises to 'transform mobile payments' | News | TechRadar
"Additional functionality will soon enable consumers to use O2 Wallet to top-up mobile airtime, buy train tickets and make mobile contactless payments via NFC ...
m.techradar.com/.../o2-wallet-launches-with-aim-to-transform-...
INSIDE SECURE : Supplies NFC Technology for New Nokia Lumia ...
INSIDE mobile NFC, secure payment and digital security products provide security for a wide range of information processing, storage and transmission ...
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Mobile Payments Using Smartphones Is The Growth Engine Of The Future

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NFC and other reasons CIOs need a next-gen mobile strategy -- now
TechTarget
McDonald's is testing cloud-based NFC payments in Austria. But use cases extend well beyond payment: Hotels can send your room key to your phone, allowing you to bypass the front desk. BMW is using NFC technology that will enable drivers to book hotel ...

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Mobile Payments Using Smartphones Is The Growth Engine Of The Future
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Seeking Alpha
Visa announced a new service that provides financial institutions and mobile network operators with a one-stop solution to securely download payment account information to smartphones enabled with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.

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What a Facebook Phone Will Look Like: Features and OS

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What a Facebook Phone Will Look Like: Features and OS
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Wired News
‬"If we really want to get visionary about this, then we could talk about NFC and Facebook Credits thereby turned into a universal mobile wallet, used seamlessly for both online and offline purchases." — Aapo Markkanen‪ ‬The DigiTimes report lines up ...

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ShelfX Releases A Fridge That Knows What You Took
Sacramento Bee
With the Vending Fridge installed, a customer simply uses their mobile phone to scan a QR code on the fridge, prompting the download of the ShelfX app from which accounts are created and payment information is entered. Within seconds, scanning the QR ...
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O2 UK launches new wallet service, helps you empty yours (video)

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O2 UK launches new wallet service, helps you empty yours (video)
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Engadget
Additional functionality will soon enable consumers to use O2 Wallet to top-up mobile airtime, buy train tickets and make mobile contactless payments via NFC technology. James continues, "We recognise that security is absolutely key.

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Do mobile devices represent the future of money?
InternetRetailer.com
Others—including some who are generally positive about the future of mobile payments—expect this process to unfold relatively slowly due to a combination of privacy fears, consumers' preferences to pay anonymously in some cases, ...
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ITN International Introduces First NFC-enabled Paper Badge at a B2B Event
Exhibitor Online
4/26/2012 - Bethesda, Maryland-based ITN International has introduced the first paper NFC attendee badge at a B2B event. Attendees of WIMA NFC Monaco, which took place April 11-13, were issued NFC-enabled paper badges that could be read by an app ...
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Profiting in A New Era of Payment Services
Investorplace.com
Even things like parking meters and taxi cabs, which used to cash only, are moving toward electronic payment. It's a plastic world that is fast becoming a mobile world as the number of smartphones in use continues to explode and new technological ...
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Mobilising the market place
Telecoms.com (blog)
You might think that the coal face of innovation in the mobile payments space would be with Big Retail, where the bulk of commercial transactions take place. But in reality, the most significant developments are being driven by the occasional merchants ...
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Late News: O2 Wallet Launched, Apple WWDC Tickets Sold Out in 2 Hours, Schmidt ...
ITProPortal
O2 has also revealed it intends to allow users of the wallet app to make purchases with their near-field communication (NFC) phones. This would allow consumers to make contactless payments in shops on the high street through O2 Wallet.
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