Tuesday, August 21, 2012

44 "Mobile Payment News" Stories for August 21st, 2012

News34 new results for "Mobile Payment"
McDonald's, PayPal join forces for mobile payment test
Fox News
Starbucks recently joined forces with start-up technology company Square Inc. to work out its mobile payment system. Merchant Customer Exchange, which includes big names such as Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, is working to develop a smartphone app ...
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How to Select the Best Mobile Payment Service
NBC Chicago (blog)
Are you set up to take mobile payments? Are you confident that the platform you're using is the most viable, reliable and the most convenient for your customers? If not, don't sweat it. Since the Internet and its many branching and related technologies ...
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McDonald's Testing Mobile Payment App
KGTV San Diego
McDonald's showcased an even more in-depth mobile payment app earlier this year at a conference in Orlando, Reuters reports. Copyright CNN 2012. The following are comments from our users. Opinions expressed are neither created nor endorsed by ...
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Fries from your phone: McDonald's testing mobile payment app
CNN
PayPal, long a leader in Web transactions, is fighting to stay in the forefront of the mobile-payment game. In addition to the McDonald's deal, PayPal has signed up with such retailers as Home Depot. McDonald's showcased an even more in-depth mobile ...
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Walmart-Backed MCX Aims to Dominate Mobile Payments
DailyFinance
Retail heavyweights such as Wal-Mart (WMT), Target (TGT), Best Buy (BBY) and CVS (CVS) have banded behind MCX, a new mobile payment network that's angling to become the universal way shoppers pay for purchases with their smartphones. Although ...
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McDonald's Testing Mobile Payment App and More News
The Daily meal
McDonald's Testing Mobile Payment App and More News. In today's Media Mix, a bear wanders into a Colorado restaurant, plus Cat Cora avoids jail time. Tweet. By Jessica Chou, Editor · Jessica Chou's picture tdm-35-icon.png. More on Eat. The 60 (Plus) ...
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The Daily meal
Retail Giants Team Up for Mobile Payments
Technorati
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Technorati
Dunkin' Donuts launches mobile payment option
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Dunkin' Donuts, the national chain with 55 stores in the Rochester region, has launched a mobile payment option at all of its outlets. Customers can use their iPhone, iPod Touch or Android smartphones to activate a Dunkin' app that includes a virtual ...
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Housing association launches mobile payment app
Dorset Echo
Housing association launches mobile payment app. 6:30pm Monday 20th August 2012 in News. Raglan Housing is offering its tenants in Weymouth and Dorchester a new innovative and more convenient way to pay their monthly rents using a downloadable ...
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MasterCard targets "billions" of mobile payment users
Mobile Business Briefing
Electronic payment giant MasterCard is to focus on scaling up its early commercial mobile payment deployments as the company attempts to encourage its credit card base of almost two billion to adopt mobile money services. In a new video interview with ...
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McDonald's, PayPal partner on mobile payment pilot
Mobile Payments Today
McDonald's, PayPal partner on mobile payment pilot. Tags: Mobile Apps, Online Purchasing, POS, Restaurants. August 20, 2012. Customers in some French McDonald's locations have a new way to pay for their Royale with Cheese. The fast food chain is ...
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CreditCall debuts white-label chip-and-PIN mobile POS solution
Mobile Payments Today
Another mobile point-of-sale option has launched with chip-and-PIN acceptance capabilities. CreditCall, a U.K. payment gateway, announced that CardEase Mobile, its new mobile POS application, is available worldwide. The company said it has been ...
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Barclays takes Pingit international
Mobile Payments Today
Barclays is expanding Pingit, its mobile payment app, to include cross-border fund transfers. The company said it will offer the service in Kenya starting this week. Additionally, Barclays plans to roll out services to 13 African countries by the end ...
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McDonalds tests PayPal system in 30 restaurants
VatorNews
In the world of mobile payment companies, it look we are entering an era where brands are measured by their latest conquest. Just a week after Square announced that it secured Starbucks as a client for its mobile-phone based payment service, PayPal ...
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McDonald's France testing mobile payments with PayPal
QSRweb.com
Mobile payment options are making their way into the restaurant space at a fairly consistent pace. At the beginning of this month, Starbucks announced an agreement with Square to utilize Square's Pay with Square service in Starbucks' 7000 stores and ...
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McDonald's Tests Mobile Payments App by PayPal
Franchise Herald
McDonald's, the world's biggest hamburger chain, is testing a new payment system that could allow customers to purchase their meals using mobile devices, making it the latest franchise to get into the mobile payment game. Like Us on Facebook ...
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Franchise Herald
Report: McDonald's trialing PayPal mobile wallet services
Fiercemobilecontent
Last month, PayPal said it expects to handle $10 billion in transacted mobile payment volume in 2012, an increase of 150 percent over a year ago. PayPal must nevertheless keep pace with rivals including Square, which offers its own mobile transaction ...
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BII REPORT: Here Are The Two Keys To Making Mobile Payments Work
Business Insider
And yet, already five years into the smartphone era, mobile payments are not mainstream. In a recent report, BI Intelligence analyzes the two key problems that any mobile payment solution must solve to break into the mainstream. Access the Full Report ...
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Mobile Companies Connect With Almost $4B in VC Funding
Wired News (blog)
Chinese mobile payment company Lianlian Pay banked $125 million in VC. Italian Wi-Fi hotspot and wireless broadband company Linkem raised $90 million. The biggest surprise for Chand in the data has been all the money pouring into early stage and ...
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Game of Phones: Verizon Expands LTE, Nokia Plans Lumia
Mobiledia
Verizon continues to expand its LTE reach, major retailers band together to jump start a new mobile payment option and Nokia plans out its future. Game of Phones is our weekly podcast that takes a look at the biggest releases, news and rumors in the ...
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Mobiledia
NYC-area commuter rail testing mobile payments and ticketing
Mobile Payments Today
New York City-area commuter rail lines are looking at ways to offer mobile payment and ticketing options to passengers. According to Bank Technology News, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad, the two rail lines serving the New York area, ...
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Virtual Payments in the Real World of Big Macs (MCD, EBAY, SBUX, HD, ODP ...
DailyFinance
PayPal, a division of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), which is chasing mobile payment deals with a number of big retailers, including McDonald's. Startup competitor Square Inc. last week signed a deal with Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) to offer mobile ...
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DailyFinance
China Ravaged By 'SMSZombie' Malware; Over 500000 Android Devices ...
iDigitalTimes.com
The malware is called "SMSZombie" and is used primarily in China as it targets a vulnerability in the mobile payment system used by China Mobile. "SMSZombie" is said to be a stubborn and hard to remove malware and has been spread to online forums and ...
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iDigitalTimes.com
The trend that terrifies Big Tech
CNNMoney
The mobile payment start-up Square is already processing over $6 billion in annual transactions, and the 2-year-old company is now valued at $3.25 billion. The most significant action is in mobile, and the business evidence is now there to back up this ...
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CNNMoney
Veterinarians going mobile
Montreal Gazette
"I also use a mobile payment system called Kudos so that clients can pay by credit card if they don't have cash readily available," she added. With the exception of major surgeries, there's not much a mobile vet can't do while on site. When surgery is ...
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PAYBOX from VeriFone's Point Group Drives Mobile Orders to McDonald's in ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Release Tags. consumers · diners · gomcdo · mobile payment · ordering. Website. Categories. News by Industry. Consumer; Electronics (Consumer); Retail; Websites & Internet (Consumer). News by Subject. Product. News by Geography. California; Europe ...
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Google's Other Fragmentation Problem
PC Magazine
"The business model [Google] is using is a train wreck," said Chris Gardner, co-founder of a white-label mobile payment platform called Paydiant. "The model has so many mouths to feed and so many business partners along the chain, you can't do anything ...
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Revel Systems looks to outfit the iGrocery store
GigaOM
Shoppers can pay with standard methods — cards, cash, coupons, EDT (food stamps) — but also with services from mobile payment startups Dwolla and LevelUp, which let users make a quick transaction via a smartphone. There's also a "kiosk mode" that ...
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GigaOM
Walmart's holiday layaway program is back
WDIV Detroit
Money Headlines · Shop now, pay as you go till Christmas · Need a coupon? Reach for a toilet paper ad · Stocks dip but remain near 4-year highs · McDonald's testing mobile payment app · Apple is now the most valuable company of all time · View More ...
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5 Best Upcoming Smartphones for 2012
Gotta Be Mobile
This could be the Nokia Phi's screen. Other rumored features include an external SD card slot for expanded storage, NFC for use with mobile payment solutions and 4G LTE data speeds which can reach up to 10 times faster than normal 3G speeds.
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'European Square' iZettle Now Works With Android; Visa Europe Dispute Drags On
eu.techcrunch
Like dongle-based mobile payment services Square and PayPal's Here, iZettle is focusing on the part of the market that doesn't already have card-processing services — small merchants. Using services like iZettle, Square and Here, small businesses do ...
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MasterCard's 24th Annual Asia/Pacific Risk Management Conference ...
The FINANCIAL
In particular, marquee conference sessions will explore a wide range of pressing data security issues, including mobile payment security considerations, the impact of ongoing global chip technology migration, new advancements in e-commerce data ...
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Metro Detroit back in top 100 places to live
WDIV Detroit
Money Headlines · Volvo's stunt walker commercial goes viral · Stocks close flat but remain near 4-year highs · Shop now, pay as you go till Christmas · Need a coupon? Reach for a toilet paper ad · McDonald's testing mobile payment app · View More ...
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WDIV Detroit
Net Neutrality Organization Accusing AT&T of Violating FCC Rules With ...
Mac Rumors
30/30 Gets iCloud Syncing, Multiple Lists, and More · Dunkin' Donuts Mobile Payment App Arrives for iPhone · College Packing List for iPhone Helps You Get Organized for Life Away from Home · Dark Sky for iPhone and iPad Gets Push Notifications to Alert ...
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Blogs9 new results for "Mobile Payment"
McDonald's testing mobile payment app | WQAD.com — Quad Cities ...
By Shellie Nelson
McDonald's customers in Paris can now pay using their smartphones or tablets -- a concept that could spread to the company's 33500 locations worldwide.
WQAD.com -- Quad Cities News...
PayPal makes eBay the best play on the mobile payment sector ...
By Jim Jubak
The battle over mobile point of sale payments—what software and hardware businesses will use to enable mobile phone owners to pay with their phones—is.
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PayPal's French McDonald's Experiment Could Have Big U.S. ...
By Brian Proffitt
Square, PayPal, Google Wallet, and Isis - a joint mobile payment venture from AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless - are all fighting to insert themselves between the customer and the merchant. The big selling point?
ReadWriteWeb
Virtual Payments in the Real World of Big Macs (MCD, EBAY, SBUX ...
By Paul Ausick
PayPal, a division of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), which is chasing mobile payment deals with a number of big retailers, including McDonald's. Startup competitor Square Inc. last week signed a deal with Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) to ...
24/7 Wall St. - Market Wire
Mippin News: Mobile Movers & Shakers
By Teri
The list of companies featured runs the gamut from mobile advertising services to mobile payment processors. Also included are marketing solutions, analytics firms, and - of course - other mobile app building platforms like our own. We are ...
Mippin News
Morning Scan: Amex's Orbitz-run booking engine launches, United's ...
By Sean O'Neill
Novo lands the Air Berlin contract to supply contactless mobile payment devices. By November, Novo, a subsidiary of Belgravium Technologies, will install on Air Berlin flights 500 "PayPDA" devices running the "SkyPOS" solution, which ...
Tnooz
Tips for retailers looking to provide e-commerce via mobile phones
By Misha Tan
To enhance the app, features such as map, support option or even mobile payment can be included. If your business is planning to jump on the bandwagon of e-commerce and even mobile ecommerce, and would like to find out more about it ...
The Outlet
Morning Advantage: Time to Reinvent Patents? - Dana - Blogs
By Dana Rousmaniere
Wired says that most retail apps are still just glorified gift cards with few benefits for consumers. However, they give retailers a wide-open window into your purchasing history, habits, and even your physical location. Until mobile payment apps ...
HBR.org
Retailers team up to battle Google wallet | The Best Rates
By thebestrates
... to the Google Wallets of the world, is that, as retailers, they have a better knowledge of shoppers' buying habits, and that by joining together, they can create a mobile-payment system that is easier to use and appeals more to consumers.
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Web1 new result for "Mobile Payment"
Dunkin' Donuts Gets Its Own Mobile Payment App
That's one less thing you need to carry in your wallet, as Dunkin' Donuts gets its own mobile payment app.
www.everythingicafe.com/dunkin-donuts-gets-its.../16/



With McDonald's Trial, PayPal Is Trying To Be A Lot More Like The Apple Store

English: McDonalds Sofia
English: McDonalds Sofia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
ePaymentNews4 new results for NFC Mobile Payment



McDonald's, PayPal testing mobile payments in Europe
ITProPortal
Although mobile payments technology seems like a cool bit of science fiction-style convenience, a recent report claimed that only 8 per cent of UK McDonald's customers even knew they had the ability to pay using NFC technology. PayPal's possible ...
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NFC And Mobile Devices: Payments And More!
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
United Kingdom: NFC And Mobile Devices: Payments And More! 21 August 2012. Article by Deloitte LLP · Twitter Twitter · Facebook Facebook · Digg Digg. What are NFC chips and how can they be used? Are consumers excited to embrace a 'digital wallet', ...
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With McDonald's Trial, PayPal Is Trying To Be A Lot More Like The Apple Store
Cult of Mac
The McDonald's trial appears to function in the same manner as mobile apps used by Moe's and Chipotle – select a location, place your order and pay – then pick up your food. No need for NFC or to have an employee scan a bar code displayed on your ...
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PayPal drops into McDonalds, begs meat-guzzlers to give it a bonk
Register
Thirty McDonalds outlets* in France will be accepting PayPal, using the eBay-owned processor's mobile client, as companies race to become the default mobile payment platform whether customers want it or not. The deployment is only a trial, and Reuters ...
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Google Wallet, Isis, NFC Will Push Mobile Payments to $1.3 Trillion

Google Wallet Logo
Google Wallet Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
ePaymentNews: NFC Mobile Payment
MIS-Asia - NFC not just for mobile payments: Six future uses
NFC technology could let bus travelers pay for their commutes to work with their mobile devices. Commuters who drive to work could access parking lots and ...
mis-asia.com/.../nfc-not-just-for-mobile-payments-six-future-u...
Google Wallet, Isis, NFC Will Push Mobile Payments to $1.3 TrillionDiscover and Google are doing their parts to encourage a mobile payments ... using remote purchasing and near-field communication (NFC) technologies to be ...www.techinvestornews.com/.../google-wallet-isis-nfc-will-push...
NFC - Cellcom, ICC-Cal To Bring NFC Payments To Israel ...
Israel Credit Cards-Cal (ICC-Cal) and mobile network operator Cellcom Israel have agreed to jointly develop an NFC-powered mobile payment product for the ...
pymnts.com/.../Cellcom-ICC-Cal-To-Bring-NFC-Payments-To...



Monday, August 20, 2012

Barclays offers 1st international mobile phone transfers

News6 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
NFC and the Trough of Disillusionment
ReadWriteWeb
One such technology, near field communications (NFC), has promised easy mobile payments for the last few years. NFC so far has been more hype rather than reality. According to research firm Gartner, the hype for NFC may soon be coming to an end.
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ReadWriteWeb
Report: McDonald's, PayPal Testing Mobile Payments
PC Magazine
... when compared to Asia. Although mobile payments technology seems like a cool bit of science fiction-style convenience, a recent report claimed that only 8 percent of U.K. McDonald's customers even knew they had the ability to pay using NFC technology.
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Mobile commerce security a top issue in Singapore
QR Code Press
Gemalto, one of the companies forming the consortium, claims that there are no inherent security dangers that exist in NFC technology. NFC is, largely, a passive technology, used only to facilitate mobile payments through the transmission of digital ...
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QR Code Press
Barclays offers 1st international mobile phone transfersGoMo NewsThe mobile payments sector is hotting up very fast indeed. But Barclays Bank appears to have a strong grasp of what the market wants. That's the opposite to industry pundits who predict m-payments will only happen if everyone has an NFC enabled handset.See all stories on this topic »
Mobile commerce may soon blend with social networks
QR Code Press
Though integrating social networks into a mobile commerce scheme may make mobile payments more widely available to consumers, mobile commerce may not find the success it needs until the availability of NFC-enabled mobile devices increases. Related ...
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QR Code Press
Protecting Your Brand in a Mobile Payments Ecosystem
Credit Union Times
In an era of almost daily news about alternate and mobile payment solutions in our industry, credit union executives are right to be concerned – not only about the future of their business, but also of the potential dilution of their brand as new ...
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27 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for August 20th, 2012

News18 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Retail chains break into mobile payment app technology
Sun-Sentinel
Some of the largest store chains, like Publix, Target and Walmart, have come together to form a new company that will offer shoppers a new digital-age way experience of paying at the register. Merchant Customer Exchange will exist as a mobile app and ...
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PayPal, McDonald's talk mobile payment
Columbus Dispatch
SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal is in the early stages of what might be a blockbuster deal with McDonald's Corp. McDonald's, the world's biggest hamburger chain, is testing a mobile payment service featuring PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France. Earlier ...
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Smartphone payment space packed with competition
Washington Post
A host of new options are turning up in shops and restaurants, and more are on the way — part of a fledging industry known as "mobile payment" that seeks to take advantage of the growing adoption of smartphones, tablets and wireless connections.
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Dunkin' Donuts launches mobile app for payment of Dunkin' products (USA)
Wireless Federation
... Mobile App, Mobile Money, USA · Tagged with Android Smartphones, App Store, App's mGift feature, Dunkin' Brands CEO and Dunkin' Donuts President, Dunkin' Donuts, Google Play store, iPhone, iPod touch, John Costello, mobile app, Mobile payment, ...
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SMSZombie wraps self in nudie pics, slips into 500000 Android devices
Register
SMSZombie is designed to exploit security shortcomings in the mobile payment system used by China Mobile to generate unauthorised payments. The malware also steals bank card numbers and money transfer receipt information, mobile security firm ...
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Web - The Forgotten Channel?
Finextra
In this context, I find it odd that many banks and nonbanking financial service providers are virtually treating the web as a non-existent channel while communicating the value proposition of their phone, mobile banking and mobile payment services. Let ...
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Finextra
Punchey introduces new payments platform for SMBs
Computer Business Review
Mobile payment firm Punchey has unveiled a new payments platform for small and mid-sized businesses to securely conduct transactions, whether through a mobile device, on the Web or at the store counter. The new platform will enable local merchants to ...
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CreditCall unveils CardEase Mobile payment acceptance app
Telecompaper (subscription)
UK card-not-present, e-commerce and contactless payment transactions processor CreditCall is making its mobile Chip and PIN card acceptance service for smartphones and tablets available to partners and developers worldwide. CreditCall has developed ...
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VeriFone starts showing how SAIL's openness helps it compete
GigaOM
When VeriFone launched SAIL, its Square rival back in May, it touted the openness of the platform, which can evolve as developers and businesses connect the base mobile payment product to other features and services from third-party providers. Now, it ...
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GigaOM
Carphone Warehouse to help all smartphone customers register for mobile ...
InternetRetailing.net
Carphone Warehouse is a large stakeholder in Mobile Money Network and has spent years developing this mobile payment solution, which seeks to integrate as many ways as possible to initiate payment in any channel through mobile devices. MMN retail ...
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RBA wants payment system reform
Sydney Morning Herald
The race for mobile payment by the banks is also adding extra complexity to the payment system. While the cost of choosing "credit" is popular, it typically brings a higher cost for merchants that provide the terminal, raising competition issues in the ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Retailers' wallet-less plans prompt concerns
MarketWatch
Create Portfolio or Cancel Already have a portfolio? Log In. Some big retailers are joining forces to develop their own mobile payment app, but Ken Wisnefski, CEO of WebiMax, voices some concerns about their plans. He joins Alisa Parenti in Take on Tech.
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Nordstrom iPad App to Make Mobile Shopping Faster, Easier
Daily Deal Media
... their Behavior · Australian SMEs Successfully Target Local Customers Online · NetEase Misses Revenue Number – Wall Street Whacks World of Warcraft, Shares Tank 17% in Two Days · McDonald's to test PayPal Mobile Payment System in France: Report ...
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Daily Deal Media
Mobile payments poised for lift-off
Hydrapinion
... deal gives Square an immediate critical mass as well as a high-profile way to promote their service. It's logical that, once things are up and running, other retailers will be keen to join the trend. Have you been holding back on using mobile ...
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High Quality Merchant Services Available To Variety Stores
Equities.com
If a business wants to accept mobile payment options, for instance, it will need something capable of using HTML 5. It can get very confusing, and it requires a business owner to look very carefully over what services their providers can offer and what ...
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Greek bailout tension sets up tough week for markets -- Big health insurance ...
Politico
MOBILE PAYMENT: WaPo's Mohana Ravindranath: "A host of new options are turning up in shops and restaurants, and more are on the way — part of a fledging industry known as "mobile payment" that seeks to take advantage of the growing adoption of ...
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Cashless policy: Insurers key in with pr...
BusinessDay
These include, retail insurance savings, third party products from online product application to an online management of policy accounts by customers as well as online payments using Debit Cards, Scratch Cards, POS and Mobile Payment Operators.
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Startup Ridefind Wants to Redefine Carpooling in the Phillipines
Tech in Asia
When asked what future plans they have: Safety is the biggest question surrounding every ridesharing service out there. Mobile payment system, location verification, and sponsored road trips are some ideas for the future. Our goal is not only to make ...
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Tech in Asia

Blogs7 new results for "Mobile Payment"
The Monetization Rush For Mobile Payment Apps - blog*spot
By Akeem C
As retailers rush to adopt mobile-first strategies, we'll likely see the release of more mobile payment apps to cut down on time shoppers spend waiting in line at their stores, much like the one launched by Carphone Warehouse last week.
Mocean Mobile Blog
Retail chains break into mobile payment app technology
By Justine Griffin
Some of the largest store chains, like Publix, Target and Walmart, have come together to form a new company that will offer shoppers a new digital-age way experience of paying at the register. Merchant Customer Exchange will exist as a ...
Shop-O-Matic | Sun Sentinel blogs
McDonald's tests PayPal payments in mobile app trial — TalkVietnam
By vir
PayPal is facing increasing competition in the mobile payment space for retailers: Square recently signed a landmark deal with Starbucks, whereby the mobile payments start-up will process credit and debit card transactions at the coffee ...
TalkVietnam
Announcing Village Capital Nairobi | Village Capital
By admin
Kytabu is producing a $35 reading tablet for low-income schools across Kenya, enabling payments of the tablet through a "micro-lease" mobile payment and affordable content through a subscription service. They have tested the prototype ...
Village CapitalVillage Capital | We ...
New Mobile Commerce Findings from ABI Research and Forrester ...
By Staff Writer
35 million were shipped last year, though uptake of the NFC contactless mobile payment method has been slow and limited to certain networks and certain credit cards and banks within the UK. However they're reporting three to five years ...
Transaction Age | Payments Industry...
Orange Money Big Success In Emerging Markets - MobiAD
By admin
″This exponential growth attests to the strong consumer appetite for this innovative, simple and practical mobile payment service in countries where the population has limited access to bank accounts but is widely equipped with mobile ...
MobiAD
PayPal Enters the Race for Offline Payments at - Techie Buzz
By Chinmoy Kanjilal
PayPal is conducting a test with offline mobile payment at McDonald's, and wants to compete with Square in the mobile payment market after acquiring Card.io.
Techie Buzz

Web2 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Starbucks and Square to Team Up - NYTimes.com
"But if a big merchant jumping into some mobile payment solution signals to other ... Starbucks has offered its own mobile payment app since last year and ...
www.nytimes.com/.../starbucks-and-square-to-team-up.html/
Retailers seek to cash in on mobile-payment trend - wsbt.com
Retailers and restaurants team up to wrest control of the fast-emerging pay-by- smartphone industry from technology firms, in a new venture called MCX.
www.wsbt.com/.../la-fi-google-mobile-payments-20120816,0,...



Mobile Payments' Problem: Too Many Options

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
Mobile Payments' Problem: Too Many Options
Investorplace.com
ISIS is the mobile wallet brainchild of three telecom giants: AT&T (NYSE:T), T-Mobile and Verizon (NYSE:VZ). NFC-capable smartphones are used to pay at a variety of retailers. Like many cellular upgrades, ISIS is being rolled out by city, not by retail ...
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McDonald's Begins Testing PayPal Payments

News2 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
McDonald's Begins Testing PayPal Payments
The Inquisitr
As Near Field Communications (NFC) mobile payment technology continues to improve and more users gravitate away from traditional forms of cash and even credit cards there is a good chance we will see many more mobile payment platforms both ...
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The Inquisitr
Best Buy, Walmart Team to Form Google Wallet Competitor
Tom's Hardware Guide
The list is seemingly slim because the cost of NFC technology has become reasonable to the point that manufacturers are just now beginning to integrate the tech into their designs. With Google's alliance with MasterCard slowly gaining traction, it's ...
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PayPal Tests Mobile Payment System at McDonald's

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
PayPal Tests Mobile Payment System at McDonald's
Mobile & Apps
The PayPal software enables users to conduct a transaction without relying on NFC chips. Instead, the company connects a users' PayPal account to his/her mobile phone number and a PIN code. The technology can be used to make payments at any ...
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Mobile & Apps



Paypal Mobile Payment to McDonald's will soon be Possible


ePaymentNews
McDonalds
McDonalds (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)
Paypal Mobile Payment to McDonald's will soon be Possible
The Droid Guy
As online marketing strategies are blooming in the past five years, Paypal is taking another huge step in mobile payments. McDonald's, the world's largest hamburger food chain, has partnered with PayPal in conducting a series of tests on receiving ...

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5 Ways to Pay for Dinner With Your Phone
Mashable
Mobile payment transactions are predicted to reach $1.3 trillion per year by 2017, and the restaurant industry appears ripe to scarf down a hefty chunk of that money flying around electronically. But while news about the mobile payments space has ...

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PayPal Is Testing Out Mobile Payment at McDonald's Restaurants
Gizmodo UK
Just as it was announced last week that Square will become the mobile payment platform for Starbucks going forward, PayPal now has revealed it too has designs on the fastfood/payment game—its conquest: McDonalds. Currently 30 different McDonald's ...
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PayPal is Testing Mobile Payments at French McDonald's
Complex.com (blog)
Paypal, the online payment service owned by eBay, has begun testing its mobile payment service in McDonald's restaurants in France, Reuters is reporting. The test allows customers to order food using a McDonald's mobile app and paying for the items ...
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Unwire Teams up with Nexperts to Offer Mobile Wallet in Europe
Daily Deal Media
By combining their technologies and solutions, the two companies will be able to come up with an improved product that offers a multi-platform mobile payment solution that will help businesses retain customers. With most research showing that mobile ...
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Daily Deal Media
Top Three Rated Mobile Payment Solutions
Melodika.net (press release)
Mobile payment solutions are hitting the processing industry with force. The convenience for customers to pay and quickly have businesses run their credit cards is beneficial on both ends of the payment. Brady's insight into the mobile processing world ...
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Chipotle treads lightly with restaurant tech
The News Journal
Like others in similar positions, he's got a wide palette of gee-whiz technologies at his disposal – tablets for ordering, mobile payment systems, in-store ATM-like machines for ordering that replace cashiers. Yet he eschews most of them. He's in no ...
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Resilient "SMSZombie" Exploits China Mobile's Payment System - Over 500000 Android Devices Infected, Firm Says. Researchers from mobile security firm TrustGo have recently discovered a new, resilient mobile threat targeting Android ...
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NFC technology expanding beyond mobile commerce

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NFC technology expanding beyond mobile commerce
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NFC technology has grown in popularity primarily due to its uses in mobile commerce. Though the technology has proven itself to be exceeding proficient in facilitating mobile payments, NFC can be used for more than this purpose. A new report from ...

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Mobile Payments to Top $1.3 Trillion Within Five Years

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Mobile payments will soon reach the trillion-dollar mark. New projections from Juniper Research forecast payments processed via cell phones will reach $1.3 trillion by 2017, Mobile Marketing Daily reports. "Mobile Payments Strategies: NFC, Remote ...

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