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| Report: Worldwide mobile payment transactions jump 62% to $171.5 bn in 2012 NFCNews According to Gartner, NFC will take a back seat to other mobile payment technologies until 2016, when growth is expected to pick up. "NFC payment involves a change in user behavior and requires collaboration among stakeholders that includes banks, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New PayPal app could beat out NFC in mobile commerce QR Code Press Mobile commerce is gaining traction around the world, driven by aggressive investments in NFC technology from some of the world's leading technology and financial companies. NFC allows mobile devices to be used as payment systems, enabling these ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mobilis uses NFC, biometrics in new mobile wallet service NFCNews (blog) After the funds have landed the receiver's mobile wallet, the mobile subscriber can then use their phone to pay for goods and services, pay bills, and top-up airtime using NFC at the point of sale. According to Mobilis, the entire transaction, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Shaping the future of mobile banking Finextra They can leverage their position as the mobile network operator just as groups like ISIS in the US and in the UK, Project Oscar (the NFC consortium made up of Vodafone, O2/Telefonica, Everything Everywhere) have done in the mobile payment space. See all stories on this topic » |
Sunday, June 3, 2012
New PayPal app could beat out NFC in mobile commerce
Friday, June 1, 2012
Google Director, Russ Laraway, Named Senior Vice President of Merchant Sales at FreeMonee Network
June 01, 2012 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN MATEO, Calif.--()--FreeMonee Network, the world’s first and only gift incentive network, today announced that longtime Google Industry Director, Russ Laraway has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Merchant Sales. The addition of Russ to FreeMonee’s team of industry veterans is another step forward in the company’s growth and leadership of the gift incentive space for merchants.
“Russ was a major player at Google and really helped shape their success. He is a great addition to our seasoned management team”
In his new role, Russ will draw upon his nearly 20 years of sales, marketing, operations and entrepreneurial experience to grow and lead the merchant sales organization. His efforts will be focused on expanding the base of national and regional merchants currently participating in the FreeMonee Gift Network across 30 retail categories.
FreeMonee, which functions like a virtual gift card on an individual’s debit or credit card, allows consumers to purchase anything they want with the designated merchant, no strings attached. The company has experienced extraordinary growth since first launching to consumers in November 2011 and has already rolled out programs with four of the top eight card issuers in the U.S. Russ’ appointment and experience are instrumental to maintaining and building upon this momentum.
Throughout Russ’ seven years at Google, he led the company’s software and enterprise service advertising business in North America. He also launched and led the international sales and service operations for the AdSense product and subsequently helped to integrate Google’s $3.2B acquisition of DoubleClick. Russ joined Google from Pathfinders, a supply chain consulting company he co-founded, focused on helping mid-sized manufacturing companies become more efficient. Russ was one of just 20 people, out of 32,000, selected for the prestigious ‘Google Great Manager Award’ in 2011. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
“FreeMonee is shaping the future of direct response marketing, and I am excited to be joining the company at such an important time for the industry,” explained newly appointed Russ Laraway. “The superior technology and massive reach of FreeMonee Network delivers profitable, incremental sales for merchants at scale. The momentum that FreeMonee Network has quickly achieved by delivering its gift incentives reminds me of the early days of search advertising. Opportunities like this don’t come along often, so I feel lucky to join.”
“Russ was a major player at Google and really helped shape their success. He is a great addition to our seasoned management team,” said Gadi Maier, CEO and President of FreeMonee. “I am confident that he will help us extend our lead in the rapidly expanding gift incentive space.”
About FreeMonee Network
FreeMonee (www.freemonee.com) is the world’s first and only gift incentive network – connecting millions of credit and debit cardholders from the world’s largest financial institutions with national and local merchants. Financial institutions offer FreeMonee Gifts – cash incentives – to individual cardholders that can be used at popular merchants. FreeMonee Gifts function like a virtual gift card on an individual’s debit or credit card, allowing consumers to purchase anything they want with the designated merchant, with no strings attached. Through continued partnerships with the top U.S. financial institutions, the company expects 50 million households to have access to FreeMonee Gifts in 2012.
WWDC Wish List: iOS 6 Will Activate iWallet Capabilities Already in Current iPhone
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37 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for June 1st, 2012
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CHARGE Anywhere Mobile Payment Technology To Be Distributed In Central America
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CHARGE Anywhere® LLC, a leading provider of award-winning, secure mobile payment applications and payment gateway solutions, announced today the signing of a partnership program with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Do mobile-based payment options really benefit you? Economic Times Typically you need a bank account to avail of mobile banking services, but companies like Airtel Money, Oxigen and Obopay are offering mobile payment options for even individuals without a bank account. Mobile-enabled payment mechanisms eliminate the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| In-App Mobile Payment Service ZooZ Announces Quick HTML5 Implementation ADOTAS ADOTAS - In-app mobile payment service ZooZ announced yesterday it's made an HTML5 mobile web version of its software development kit available, promising in a statement released by the company that it's a less-than-10-minute cut-and-paste job made up ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| doxo debuts single-click mobile bill payment Banking Business Review doxo, the e-payment solution provider has introduced a new single-click mobile payment capabilities, and added a new smart phone app, doxo Mobile for Android, to its existing iPhone mobile app. According to the application launcher, both applications ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Doxo offers consumers mobile approach to bill payments Self-Service World Doxo, a Seattle-based company that provides an "all-in-one digital file cabinet" as well as online payment solutions, has announced the launch a new single-click mobile payment solution. It's also adding an Android version of its doxo Mobile app to its ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Seamless has been approved for listing on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm MarketWatch (press release) More information can be found at www.seamless.se In the Seamless mobile payment solution, SEQR, consumers scan a QR code into the POS terminal, the web or the bill to approve that payment will be charged to their bank accounts. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GFG Group year-end financials show consistent, profitable revenue growth Bobsguide (press release) Row says market demand for convergent card and mobile payment solutions is strong and intensifying. This demand, along with the rapid uptake of mobile payments and mobile banking, is driving GFG Group's card and mobile convergence strategy. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| doxo Launches Android App, Debuts doxoPay Mobile Payments BetaKit Seattle-based digital filing cabinet and mobile payment system doxo today announced the launch of its Android application, and the launch of new one-click mobile payment features. The doxo Mobile apps, available for Android and iOS, now include the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mobile payments rise set to defy market chaos Lakestar Media Teething problems with mobile payment technology should not dramatically affect the pace of its adoption, with almost £400billion of transactions forecast to be carried out on the move by 2016. According to analysts Gartner, the market for mobile ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| PayPal unveils app to pay via phone in shops CITY A.M. ONLINE payments pioneer PayPal yesterday launched an app that takes in-store mobile payment to the next level. Valid in 230 stores across the UK, including high street favourites Coast, Oasis, Warehouse and Karen Millen, the app generates a unique bar ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Social Commerce Platform Multiply Implements Credit Card Payment in Indonesia Virtual-Strategy Magazine For the past year, payment methods offered included bank transfer, ATM, mobile payment (XL Tunai), PayPal and e-banking. With the release of the credit card payment method, shoppers can now start shopping using Visa/MasterCard credit cards. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ZooZ offers HTML5 version of its in-app solution Mobile Payments Today ZooZ, an in-app mobile payment provider is adding an HTML5 version of its solution. The company boasts that its new SDK is so easy to use — requiring just three lines of code — that developers can monetize apps across any platform in just 10 minutes. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Innovative New Washington Merchant Services Provider Houston Chronicle Together, MDS and Karma Snack offer a full suite of Virtual Merchant services including mobile payment acceptance, electronic check processing, and online merchant accounts. MDSSEO provides peace of mind to clients that all payments will be securely ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NET MOBILE AG : implements Google Play Carrier Billing for Telefónica Germany 4-traders This confirms that we are on the right track with the national and international expansion of our mobile payment systems." The net mobile AG Group is a leading international full-service provider for mobile and interactive value added services and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Upwardly Mobile Bank Technology News ... with being one of the first banks to introduce an iPad app, Citi is among the first to have a Kindle app; it was also the first bank to team up with Google on its mobile wallet, which still has the potential to be a leading mobile payment solution. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Finding Future CSPnet.com Integration between devices--such as point-of-sale (POS) registers and display signs--and advancing technologies for mobile payment and cashier upselling will continue, said James Hervey of VeriFone Systems Inc., Clearwater, Fla. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Great Financial Service Company for Your Portfolio DailyFinance A recently announced partnership with Zynga is taking a swipe at the mobile payment business of PayPal, and they are also getting into Groupon's business by offering deals to customers that sync their AmEx card to a Twitter account. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Freeport Capital Inc. (FAS:CNSX) Appoints Mr. Guy Lafontaine To EMV Compliancy ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) First Equity Strategy LLC (DBA; Hybrid Paytech is a subsidiary of Freeport Capital Inc. Based in Montreal, Canada; Hybrid Paytech is a technology leader in the mobile payment space for credit and debit acceptance. With a global footprint, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| St Albans and Harpenden commuters face chaos at stations St Albans & Harpenden Review Commuters starting the day at St Albans and Harpenden stations have been faced with the new system and have found they were not able to pay by card and could not text to set up a mobile payment they have to phone. Maria Moyes, who uses Harpenden ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| PCI Data Security Standards Council provides mobile payment acceptance guidance Lexology (registration) On May 16, 2012, the PCI Security Standards Council's ("PCI SSC's") Mobile Working Group published its "At a Glance: Mobile Payment Acceptance Security" fact sheet (the "Guidance"), which outlines best practices for securely accepting payments via ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Groupon Buys NY Based Startup Breadcrumb NY Convergence There has been speculation over exactly how Groupon will utilize Breadcrumb's features, but the company has hinted that it will integrate its own deals into the system. However, Groupon's new daily deals site has been testing mobile payment and may use ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| MobiAD » Mobile Advertising News » Mobile Payment Apps ... By admin Mobile Payments has been receiving an increasing amount of attention in the media recently, both for mobile commerce and for person-to-person money transfers. Two recent product launches in the UK of Barclaycard Pingit and O2's mobile ... MobiAD | ||
| Which Payment Mode Will You Use in the Future? | Idea Engineers By Madhusudan Murthy Cloud-based mobile payment: Mobile payment players are vying with each other to provide more value to their customers that go beyond ensuring the basic contactless capabilities. The latest innovation is a cloud-based mobile payment ... Idea Engineers | ||
| iOS Review Roundup: Four mobile payment systems - Apple ... iOS Review Roundup: Four mobile payment systems. From: Macworld - 4:00pm - May 31, 2012. Does your business accept payments by credit card? We evaluate four of today's best payment processing systems. Continue reading this article ... eWallstreeter | ||
| Top Online Marketing News June 1, 2012 By Ashley Zeckman Does this headline have you seriously considering amping up your mobile optimization budget? Maybe it should! According to Gartner's Forcast on mobile payment the average annual growth is expected to be an average of a 42% increase ... Online Marketing Blog | ||
| DesignJobsLive.com » logo for a mobile payment solution – oDesk By contributor We need a logo for our new worldwide mobile payment solution called "Wispay". We need it in AI or EPS. The logo must talk about payment and mobile and must emphasize simplicity. We need some specific colors: orange, gray and white ... DesignJobsLive.com | ||
| Gemalto Supports "la Caixa" in Spain's First Large Scale ... By Smart Card Alliance "They are setting up the contactless ecosystem which will help educate and prepare the market for NFC mobile payment and Gemalto is committed to supporting "la Caixa" in its long term strategy." "la Caixa" is the leading financial group in ... Smart Card Alliance | ||
| Facebook Boots Chrome, Adds Opera To Supported Browser Page ... By Josh Wolford 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 | ||
| PayPal mobile payments hit the UK. Sort of | News Articles | Mobot.net The high street fashion outlets have been chosen to kick off the PayPal mobile payment system's UK rollout, this after similar trials of pay-by-PayPal real-world shopping have been taking place in the US over recent months. To use the system, ... Mobot | ||
| The 5 Best Android Smartphones [June, 2012] By Adam Mills ... almost identical now that Verizon has rolled out the device's Android 4.0.4 update. The only difference is that Sprint's version of the device offers compatibility with Google Wallet, Google's mobile payment platform, and Verizon's does not. Gotta Be Mobile |
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| ERPLY Integrates PayPal for New Seamless Mobile Payment Solution Internet Retailer - Technology/Mobile Commerce - ERPLY Integrates PayPal for New Seamless Mobile Payment Solution. www.internetretailer.com/.../erply-integrates-paypal-new-seam... | ||
| Gemalto Mobile Payment Platform on Oracle T4 (Openomics) By user938730 on May 31, 2012. Gemalto is the world leader in digital security, at the heart of our rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide ... https://blogs.oracle.com/.../entry/gemalto_mobile_payment_t4 | ||
| Mobile Payments Heat Up in Sweden - Tech Europe - WSJ As iZettle announces its Android version, the mobile payment sector is getting ... The mobile payment industry is indeed starting to resemble a hornet's nest of ... blogs.wsj.com/tech.../mobile-payments-heat-up-in-sweden/ | ||
| Visa & Mastercard Face Mobile Payment Competition - Businessweek May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Josh Lipton reports Visa and MasterCard both produced better risk-adjusted returns . He speaks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu ... www.businessweek.com/.../visa-and-mastercard-face-mobile-p... |
Ericsson ramps up NFC app management service
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| Tube bosses: 'Wireless tickets too slow, we think' Register Speaking at the Open Mobile Summit, TfL's Shashi Verma told the assembled that radio-based NFC payments were just too slow for the underground, but when buttonholed by NFC Times he admitted that the organisation hadn't looked at the transaction speed ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Use mobiles as boarding pass at airports Times of India "Fifty passengers will use latest BlackBerry smartphones with NFC technology. After web check-in, a special sms will be automatically loaded on the mobile and read at the airport when it is tapped on a scanner," says Renaud Irminger, Paris-based ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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One in Four to Use NFC Mobile Payments by 2017
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| More than 1 in 4 Mobile Users in the US and Western Europe will pay in-store ... Fiercemobilecontent Hampshire, UK - 30 th May 2012: A new report from Juniper Research has found that more than 1 in 4 of US and Western European mobile phone users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone to pay for goods in-store by 2017, compared with less than 2% in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| You are here: Home » News » In 2017, One in Every Four Mobile Users Will Pay ... MobileMarketing Magazine Only this morning, we posted research which predicted that take-up for NFC mobile payments would remain low until after 2015. Well, Juniper Research apparently disagrees. More than one in four of US and Western European mobile phone users - 29 per cent ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Could The BlackBerry Save Mobile Payments?
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 By Banking.com Staff Big jump in mobile payments expected, but not with NFC in U.S.. Computerworld. Mobile payments will reach $171 billion globally in 2012, a 62% increase over last year's total of $105.9 billion, according to research firm Gartner Inc. That ... Banking.com — Banking.com | ||
| Will 25% of U.S. and Western Europeans be Paying with NFC by ... By Gary Kim Juniper Research projects that more than 25 percent of U.S. and Western European mobile phone users will use their near field communications-enabled mobile phones to pay for goods in-store by 2017, compared with less than two percent ... IP Carrier | ||
| NFC contactless payment system coming to the UK Post Office June ... By Robert Nazarian UK's adoption of mobile payments has been slow at best, but with 11500 branches onboard with NFC, this just might be the jumpstart needed to get things going. I wonder if Google will launch Google Wallet in time for the Olympics? Android News, Rumours, and Updates | ||
| Could The BlackBerry Save Mobile Payments? - StorefrontBacktalk By Frank Hayes Everybody is waiting for Apple in NFC mobile payments—the theory being that the iPhone's try-anything-if-it's-Apple owners will embrace tap-to-pay as soon as the company endorses it. But Apple is in no hurry, and Google Wallet and ISIS ... StorefrontBacktalk | ||
| Mobilis Enable Biometric and NFC World Firsts for Mobile Wallets ... By africanpressorganization Widespread use of mobile phones for retail payments was considered to be a few years away, however with Mobilis' mobile wallet services for NFC, all of a mobile operators' subscribers can make these mobile payments today. The service is ... Database of Press Releases related... |
25% of Mobile Users Will Try NFC for Mobile Payments by 2017
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| 25% of Mobile Users Will Try NFC for Mobile Payments by 2017 Mobile Marketing Watch From a morsel to a monster in the world of mobile, near field communications technology is growing at a breath-taking pace. Juniper Research says in its newest report that 1 in 4 of US and Western European mobile phone users will use an NFC-enabled ... See all stories on this topic » |
NFC technology in need of rebranding, according to Deutsche Telekom
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| NFC too slow for the Tube Mobile Payments Today Despite continuing attempts to improve the speed of NFC reads on mobile devices, the technology is still not making the 500 millisecond read speed required for fare payment on the London Tube. An article in PC World said that in a recent Open Mobile ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| RFID News Roundup RFID Journal Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to test NFC and SIM technology for passenger check-in; Times-7 signs SkyeTek as North American reseller for UHF antennas; Vizinex RFID announces preferred partner program; Inteligensa intros the i-Thing, an RFID-enabled payment ... See all stories on this topic » |
Masabi Unveils App for Reading Smart Card Transport Tickets Using NFC-Enabled Phones
Although the proof of concept app is designed to operate with the ITSO smart card standard being used in the UK, it could be amended to be used with any NFC contactless technology. ITSO is the UK's national standard for enabling integrated and interoperable smart ticketing and is being employed by transport operators such as Go-Ahead, Stagecoach and Newport Transport as well as in schemes in Scotland, Wales, Greater Manchester, Leicestershire and Cheshire amongst others¹.
"Masabi's Smart card Buddy Beta has the potential to bridge two rapidly growing but separate technologies - mobile phones and smart cards. This proof of concept app shows that the new generation of NFC enabled smartphones can operate as ticket readers thereby letting passengers and inspectors check what's on a smart card without the need for specialist hardware. In the future, users could even buy tickets or credit for their smart card using their phone - this once again would limit queues at ticket machines and eliminate the complexity surrounding setting 'home stations' for smart card top ups," said Tom Godber, CTO of Masabi.
Masabi's mobile ticketing technology allows passengers to search for train times and buy tickets which can then be either picked-up at stations, displayed as an on-screen barcode or via in-built NFC. Its applications support the majority of mobile handsets and are currently offered by a dozen UK rail operators and ticket retailers including thetrainline.com, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry and Virgin Trains. It has also won its first contract outside the UK with the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) which is set to launch in Q4.
About Masabi
Masabi is the leading developer of mobile ticketing technology for the transport sector. Its award-winning 'Ticket Machine in Your Pocket' applications signal the end of ticket queues by allowing passengers to quickly and securely buy and display tickets on most mobile phones. The company's technology allows transport operators to transform their passengers' travel experience while also dramatically expanding sales capacity without significantly increasing costs. Based in London, it has 35 employees and is backed by m8 Capital. For further information see www.masabi.com
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Mobilis Enable Biometric and NFC World Firsts for Mobile Wallets
Mobilis Enable Biometric and NFC World Firsts for Mobile Wallets (via PR Newswire)
PALO ALTO, Calif. and AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Mobilis Networks Limited, an international software applications company offering mobile wallet and billing solutions for mobile operators, today announced its software services to enable what Mobilis believes to be world…
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