Thursday, June 21, 2012

NFC Forum and GS1 Team Up on Mobile Retail

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NFC Forum and GS1 Team Up on Mobile Retail
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The MOU is a reflection of the growth of mobile devices in retail. NFC is driving the proliferation of new B2C applications, such as NFC-enabled mobile payments ...
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Windows Phone Wallet Feature to Use NFC - Mashable

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Windows Phone Wallet Feature to Use NFC
Mashable
Microsoft's Wallet feature for Windows Phone will use NFC. ... AT&T and T-Mobile that competes with Google Wallet in the NFC and mobile payment space.
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Mashable
Mobile commerce to be simplified by new NFC token system
QR Code Press
Together, the two companies will begin work to deploy NFC payment tokens. These tokens will allow consumers with NFC-enabled mobile devices to conduct ...
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Microsoft brings NFC payments and loyalty cards to Windows Phone

Blogs10 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Windows Phone 8 revealed: Microsoft's eight new features for mobile
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By Jolie O'Dell
From NFC to mobile payments to software support for incredibly powerful hardware, Microsoft is preparing to pull out all the stops to sell the newest lines of Windows Phone 8-powered devices come this fall. Currently, we still don't see too ...

VentureBeat
Microsoft brings NFC payments and loyalty cards to Windows Phone ...
By Donald Melanson
... Wallet and Apple's Passbook have some new competition. Today at the Windows Phone Developer Summit, Microsoft shared its plans to bring NFC payments and loyalty cards to Windows Phone 8 with its very own mobile wallet feature.
Engadget
Chinese city to get NFC smart meters • NFC World
By Sarah Clark
The near field communication news source – NFC, contactless, mobile payments, RF SIM, RFID and more. Skip to content. Home · About NFC World · Advertise with us · Contact us · Got a tip? Tell us! News · Front page · Applications » ...
NFC World
Microsoft Windows Phone 8: New Hardware, IE10, NFC, Wallet ...
By Jaden
Essentially their goal is to effectively replace the whole wallet, not just the payments. You'll have access to mobile payments, loyalty and membership cards, saved deals, and NFC 'tap to pay.' As for security Windows Phone 8 will offer secure ...
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Windows Phone 8: the new features
NFC. image. An NFC chip is in the core of future mobile payments and easy file transfers between devices, and it's in Windows Phone 8. NFC. New Start Screen. image. The new Start Screen is probably the biggest news in Windows Phone 8 ...
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Windows Phone 8 Might Finally Make NFC Payments Popular
By Brian Barrett
That's the promise of NFC; payments made with a wave of your handset. The only problem? Despite ... The Wallet hub comes equipped with its own PIN, so you don't have to lock your whole phone to secure your mobile monies. And in-app ...
Gizmodo
Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 8, Unifies Its Platforms ...
Microsoft played up the new NFC capabilities, which will enable everything from mobile payments to loyalty and membership cards to tap-to-pay, and security will come in part in the form of PIN code protection. NFC will also enable pushing ...
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Using Technology to Market Your Downtown | Yfactor
By Tyler Seed
Many new smartphone models with NFC capabilities are being released this summer. They are being touted as the future platform of mobile payments and banking transactions. For the moment though they permit users to touch an NFC tag ...
Yfactor
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Summit Recap - LogicLounge
By Kevin Che
With the new Windows Phone, users will have access to mobile payments, loyalty cards, saved deals, deals found online and the store is close by to the user, and "tap to pay" using NFC. With NFC payments, the new windows Phone will offer ...
LogicLounge
KabayanTech » The only post that you need to read about Windows ...
By Abiel Abuy
NFC Support including WP8 Wallet – mobile payments (on the SIM), loyalty and membership cards, saved deals, and NFC 'tap to pay' rolled into one. Nokia Maps; offline map support, map control for developers, turn-by-turn and NAVTEQ map ...
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SKT–KDDI Join Forces for Global Commercialization of NFC

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SKT–KDDI Join Forces for Global Commercialization of NFC ...
Korea IT Times (press release)
MAE visitors at the GSMA booth will be able to experience 'NFC & Joy' ... The two companies began trial service for seamless NFC-based mobile payment ...
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Accumulate, Borica - Bankservice team up for mobile payment


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Taiwanese Bank to Launch PayPass on microSDs in HTC NFC ...
Cathay United Bank of Taiwan is expected to announce plans to launch an NFC mobile-payment project putting a MasterCard PayPass credit application on ...
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Accumulate, Borica - Bankservice team up for mobile payment
Swedish mobile payment services provider Accumulate has entered an ... Ticket ( OTT), NFC stickers or NFC integrated devices for enabled NFC POS terminals.
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NFC Forum Adds Canon, HP, Infineon and Yahoo (Japan) as Principal Members

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NFC Forum Welcomes Canon, HP, Infineon Technologies, and Yahoo! JAPAN as Principal Members

Industry Consortium Adds 24 New Associate, Implementer, and Non-Profit Members
WAKEFIELD, Mass.--()--The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced that CanonHP, and Yahoo! JAPAN have joined the organization as Principal members. In addition, Infineon Technologies raised its level of membership from Associate to Principal member. The NFC Forum also recently welcomed 24 new Associate, Implementer, and Non-Profit members from across the NFC ecosystem.
“Our newest Principal members span the NFC ecosystem, bringing us their perspectives as global leaders in the consumer electronics, Information Technology, semiconductor, and Internet industries”
Since its founding in 2004, the NFC Forum has drawn market-leading organizations from around the world to its membership roster as momentum builds for the adoption and implementation of NFC technology.
"Our newest Principal members span the NFC ecosystem, bringing us their perspectives as global leaders in the consumer electronics, Information Technology, semiconductor, and Internet industries," said Koichi Tagawa, chairman of the NFC Forum. "They, along with our new Associate, Implementer, and Non-Profit members, will contribute greatly to furthering the adoption of NFC technology and strengthening the knowledge base and impact of the NFC Forum."
Principal membership is the second-highest level of membership in the NFC Forum, with each Principal member entitled to appoint a voting representative to each of the Technical, Ecosystem, and Compliance Committees and Working Groups. Principal members may also designate individuals to run for positions leading Committees or Working Groups, and they may propose initiatives and contribute to the development of Forum deliverables. As Principal members, organizations may also participate in the NFC Forum testing andcertification program using their own in-house test labs.
New Associate members include:
Joining as Implementer members are:
CITC-EuraRFID and Hungarian Mobile Wallet Association joined as Non-Profit members.
In addition to its ongoing work via conference calls and online meetings, the NFC Forum holds face-to-face, all-members meetings three times a year to advance NFC initiatives, and to address specifications and other projects under development. The next all-members meeting will take place in Tokyo, June 25-29, 2012.
About Near Field Communication Technology
NFC technology makes life easier and more convenient for consumers around the world by making it simpler to make transactions, exchange digital content, and connect electronic devices with a touch. A standards-based connectivity technology, NFC harmonizes today's diverse contactless technologies, enabling current and future solutions in areas such as access control, consumer electronics, healthcare, information collection and exchange, loyalty and coupons, payments, and transport.
NFC technology is supported by the world's leading communication device manufacturers, semiconductor producers, network operators, IT and services companies, and financial services organizations. NFC is compatible with hundreds of millions of contactless cards and readers already deployed worldwide.
About the NFC Forum
The NFC Forum (http://www.nfc-forum.org) was launched as a non-profit industry association in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. The Forum’s mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum’s 160+ global member companies currently are developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and device capability.
The NFC Forum’s Sponsor members, which hold seats on the Board of Directors, include leading players in key industries around the world. The Sponsor members are: Barclaycard, Broadcom Corporation, INSIDE Secure, Intel, MasterCard Worldwide, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Inc., NXP Semiconductors, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Samsung, Sony Corporation, STMicroelectronics, and Visa Inc.

Windows Phone 8 OS opens up to multicore processors, NFC

Windows Phone 8 OS opens up to multicore processors, NFC
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Support for near field communication (NFC) will let Microsoft create its own wallet and mobile payments experience. Microsoft is going after Google and Apple ...

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Windows Phone 8 Microsoft's NFC Mobile Wallet Plans

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Along with the new NFC support, Microsoft is launching its own Mobile Wallet Hub with Windows Phone 8. The Mobile Wallet hub features NFC-based tap to pay ...

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Windows Phone 8 Official Commercial
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... Apollo" "windows 8" microsoft Apple iOS Nokia Samsung Football Soccer Euro "Microsoft Surface" Windows Phone 8 Apollo NFC Technology Mobile Payment ...
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Microsoft unveils its NFC mobile wallet plans
NFC World
Windows Phone 8 is to come with both NFC and a mobile wallet that ... The near field communication news source – NFC, contactless, mobile payments, RF SIM ...
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NFC World
Microsoft demos support for NFC-enabled ads, business cards in ...
Engadget
Microsoft spent plenty of time talking about its NFC-based mobile wallet for Windows Phone 8 today, but it has more than just payments and loyalty cards.
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Focused On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets $31.4M

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Mobile Payment Platforms Still In Nascent Stage; Developing World ...
Mobile bloom News
The mobile payment industry is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of 2016, as predicted by several studies. However, the last few decades ...
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Banks' Mobile Payment Services Not Catching On
Trefis
Banks have been increasingly looking at the mobile market in order to provide easy access for customers in a bid to attract more of the tech-savvy crowd.
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Focused On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets $31.4M ...
TechCrunch
Unlike other dongle-based mobile payment services like Square and PayPal's Here which use a card's swipe strip for processing, iZettle has focused on ...
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TechCrunch
Nationz Technologies Licenses MIPS Technologies' Processor ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Nationz is already designing its next MIPS-Based chip for mobile payment ... The 2.4G mobile payment solution standard, originally developed by Nationz, ...
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GlobalCollect implements BOKU's mobile payments platform
Banking Business Review
Global mobile payment of BOKU, operating in 67 geographies through more than 260 mobile network operators provides a potential customer base of up to 4 ...
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MIPS in licensing deal with Chinese chipmaker, shares rise
Reuters
... designer MIPS Technologies Inc said China-based Nationz Technologies <300077.SZ> has licensed its microprocessors for use in mobile payment products.
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ProPay Partners with Payvision to Expand Global Payment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... an industry leader in Merchant Services, End-to-End Payment Security, and mobile payment services, announced today that it has partnered with Payvision to ...
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GlobalConnect selects Boku as mobile billing partner
Mobile Payments Today
GlobalCollect, a provider of online payment services in the e-commerce market, announced today that it has selected Boku as its global mobile payments ...
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Focus Squarely On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets ...
Centralia Chronicle
... API to integrate its payment platform into third-party apps, iZettle, known as the "Square of Europe" for its dongle-based iOS mobile payment system, has even ...
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Research and Markets: The Global Mobile Commerce Payment ...
PYMNTS.com
The Global Mobile Commerce Payment market has also been witnessing increasing uses of mobile payment for digital goods and ticketing purchase. However ...
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GlobalCollect chooses BOKU for mobile payment
Mobile Entertainment
More distribution for the 'pay from the phone bill' specialist.
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Mobile Entertainment
Square mobile payment service hits 2 mln users
Telecompaper (subscription)
Mobile payment startup Square reports that over 2 million individuals and businesses can now accept credit cards with Square. In its first year of service ...
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Square now has two million mobile payment users in the USA
The Fonecast
US-based mobile payment service Square, which enables payments to be taken via a plug-in card reader for mobile phones, says over two million individuals ...
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The Fonecast
Square hits 2M users, $6B in payments processed
IntoMobile
Simply put, Square is revolutionizing the mobile payment industry. For those of you who (somehow) haven't yet heard of Square, the service allows you to take ...
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CMDI Launches Mobile Fundraising Tool
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Unlike other generic mobile payment solutions like Square, it automates the compliance process of reporting donations in formats acceptable to the Federal ...
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Nationz to offer Mips-based mobile payment products
Telecompaper (subscription)
Security processors and RF chips provider Nationz Technologies has licensed processor architectures and cores provider Mips Technologies' MIPS32 M4K ...
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Apple's Opportunity: Disrupt the Credit Card Business
ReadWriteWeb
In May, JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz floated the idea of "iPay," a hypothetical mobile-payment platform that Apple was in position to develop. Although ...
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Square Doubles Its User Base
NBC Bay Area
The mobile payment company said Thursday that it has doubled the amount of individuals and businesses that can process credit cards using its plug in device ...
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Mob eCommerce Releases Mobile Ecommerce Application For ...
Melodika.net (press release)
... easy sending of alerts on special offers, free mobile compatible website, social media sharing, supporting all mobile payment gateways, Google Analytics etc.
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Cement-at-the-doorstep pilot project unveiled
Creamer Media's Engineering News
The company reports that the community of Soweto will now have access to high- quality cement at its doorstep. The project, in partnership with Mobile Payment ...
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Admeris Recognized as 2012 OnMobile Ones to Watch by AlwaysOn
EIN News (press release)
Admeris' mobile payment solution is a PCI-compliant platform that spans a ... Hundreds of merchants rely on the Admeris mobile payment gateway to meet the ...
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My Mobile Payments launches m-wallet service in India
Telecompaper (subscription)
Indian mobile payment services provider My Mobile Payments has launched an m-wallet service dubbed Money-on-Mobile (MOM). The service enables Indian ...
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Square hires Friar as chief financial officer
Telecompaper (subscription)
Mobile payment startup Square has hired Sarah Friar as the company's chief financial officer. Friar was most recently the senior vice president of finance ...
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch Rolls Out New Corporate Banking ...
Banktech
The new app provides mobile payment services such as electronic purchase order submission, invoicing and payment settlement. Executives will be able to ...
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Small Businesses Leverage Mobile Technology to Increase ...
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Small business owners and entrepreneurs have access to articles, podcasts, blog posts and infographics that cover a range of topics, including mobile payment ...
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Apple iOS 6 passbook vs Google Wallet
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The battle between Apple and Google has taken a turn into the realm of mobile payment systems with Apple unveiling Passbook for iOS 6. So how do the two ...
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PluggedIn
Samsung NFC-enabled TecTiles Unveiled: All You Need to Know
iTechPost
Samsung would love to position themselves to take a huge share of the NFC mobile payment pie, a pie which Juniper Research estimated a year ago could be ...
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Venture capital deals
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iZettle, a Swedish mobile payment system, has raised €24 million in new VC funding, according to GigaOm. Greylock Partners led the round, and was joined by ...
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NSN, Everything Everywhere in M2M partnership
Mobile Business Briefing
... be able to remotely monitor stock levels, increase customer interaction through targeted messages to the machines and provide NFC mobile payment options.
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iZettle Closes $31.6 Million Expansion Round
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The Stockholm-based mobile-payment company will use the money to expand rapidly across Europe and elsewhere.
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Blogs12 new results for "Mobile Payment"
A breakdown of our mobile payment future | Techi.com
By Scarlett Madison
Every day we see more people using their smartphones to make payments whether through apps directly on them or by using them to pay for purchases at stores. The.
Techi.com
Hoofnagle, Urban, and Li on Mobile Payment Benefits and Privacy ...
By Jeff Sovern
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Jennifer M. Urban and Su Li , all of Berkely have written Mobile Payments: Consumer Benefits & New Privacy Concerns. Here's the abstract: Payment systems that allow people to pay using their mobile phones are ...
CL&P Blog
GlobalCollect Offers BOKU as Mobile Payment Checkout to its ...
By Payments News Editor
BOKU and GlobalCollect announced GlobalCollect has selected BOKU as its global mobile payments partner. The partnership integrates BOKU's payments platform into GlobalCollect's international payment network, allowing online ...
Payments News - from Glenbrook Partners
Offers are Where Mobile Wallet Value Lies, Says Isis | IP Carrier
By Gary Kim
Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will surpass $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011 values of $105.9 billion, according to Gartner. The number of mobile payment users will reach 212.2 million in 2012, up from ...
IP Carrier
Mobile payment service iZettle banks $31m to become the global ...
By Steffen Konrath
GigaOM European Technology News :: Since coming out of beta last year, Swedish payments service iZettle has been very careful about how it has grown. Now, however, it looks like the time for slow expansion could be over, as the...
:: Future of Journalism
Mobile Payments Bring New Opportunities – and New Threats ...
By Bindu Sundaresan
The PCI Security Standards Council issued a new document this month that explains its views on mobile payment security, and provides guidelines for how merchants can securely accept payments using mobile devices such as smartphones ...
Networking Exchange Blog
Schiller on app discovery, Passbook not being a direct payment ...
By Christian Zibreg
He said so-called digital wallet mobile-payment services are "all fighting over their piece of the pie, and we aren't doing that. And "Mr. Schiller", the steward of Apple's relations with developers, also touched upon a new set of tracking tools that ...
iDownloadBlog.com
PayPal Mobile Wallet App Live In Aurora Fashion Stores - Retail Fraud
By RF_editor
San Jose-based PayPa, has stated that it will use 2012 to test various mobile payment services. PayPal is set to launch UK-only mobile wallet app, PayPal InStore. The payment platform has partnered with fashion chain, Aurora, to let ...
Retail Fraud
MoMo London – July 2nd – Mobile Payments » Mobile Monday
By london
Announcements of new mobile payment methods seem to have been popping up like spring flowers this year- joining that hardy perennial NFC. Last time we looked at this area was more than two years ago - so we agreed with our event ...
Mobile Monday
Commerce Weekly: Couch commerce gets a boost - O'Reilly Radar
By Jenn Webb
In related news, Nick Hughes at TechCrunch took a look at trends in mobile wallet and mobile payment systems, and notes that not only are the proprietary platforms causing fragmentation that is hindering mobile payment progress, but they're ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
STMicroelectronics Provides Solution for China Smart Grid ...
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ST is one of the first semiconductor manufacturers to offer both the NFC controller and a high-performance SWP[1] Secure Element to provide a complete NFC mobile payment solution. By working with various mobile phone manufacturers, ...
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iZettle takes €25 Million in Series B funding | Contactless Intelligence
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Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Facebook Mobile Payment | Social Media Examiner
And marketers also now have the option of buying mobile-only Facebook ads. facebook mobile payment. The new Facebook flow for mobile payments requires ...
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Success in New Zealand mobile payment trial | Contactless ...
Mobile payments are being given the thumbs up from the Bank of New Zealand ( BNZ) following a successful trial of NFC technology between BNZ, Vodafone, ...
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Canadian consumers increasingly using contactless, mobile payment
Canadian consumers increasingly using contactless, mobile payment formats. Canadians are using their phones to pay for goods. Cash's role as the top ...
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