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Mobile payment fraud decreases acceptability

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Mobile payment fraud decreases acceptability
Bikya Masr
NAIROBI: Mobile phone fraud in Kenya has rocketed since the introduction of mobile payments such as M-pesa, Airtel Money, Orange Money and Yu cash. As a result, many individuals and businesses are slow to accepting mobile payments.
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Bikya Masr
Nonprofit Group Highlights Privacy Issues in Mobile Payments
New York Times (blog)
By BRIAN X. CHEN | April 24, 2012, 4:45 pm Some mobile payment methods are so convenient that you can walk into a store and buy something without even taking your smartphone out of your pocket. But at what cost? The Center for Democracy and Technology, ...
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Apriva Partners With Cloud-Based Payment System Provider CardSmith
VendingMarketWatch
Through this relationship, institutions will be able to cost-effectively deploy wireless vending and mobile payment acceptance around campus and eliminate the cost, security and maintenance requirements associated with traditional Ethernet and data ...
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PayPal's big ambitions in the real world
MSN Money
By MSN Money partner 13 hours ago By Therese Poletti A David and Goliath face-off may be brewing in one sector of the nascent mobile payment arena. The Goliath is PayPal, eBay's (EBAY) successful online payments business, where PayPal is the preferred ...
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PayNearMe launches mobile solution for cash payments
VatorNews
Since deploying the mobile payment option, Greyhound says that it has experienced a high volume of mobile transactions, averaging 20% of its cash payments. But how many people without bank accounts or credit cards own smartphones?
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$1.3M in funding to social, mobile, payment startup Chirpify
Mobile Payments Today
The convergence of social media, mobile devices and payments has yielded a nice payday for start-up Chirpify. The company, billing itself as a "Twitter Commerce Platform," announced it has received $1.3 million in Series A financing from investors that ...
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Spindle to Introduce RhinoPay(R) Payments Platform at NAMA OneShow April 25-27 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Spindle, Inc. is an innovator of mobile payment solutions for the banking industry, retail sector and consumer-facing companies. A pioneer in "Frictionless Finance," the company is actively developing new and improved ways for companies and end ...
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China's mobile payments market faces challenges but promises to be the largest ...
Bobsguide (press release)
The Chinese mobile payment market is virtually doubling in size every year and is expected to be worth more than US$80 billion with 441 million active users by 2015, according to the latest report from Kapronasia. China has already overtaken the US as ...
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OWNING THE MOBILE WALLET: Customers prefer banks, but could drift elsewhere
ABA Banking Journal
While the evolving mobile payment structure is and remains extremely intricate, the one simple thing that these nonbanks are doing in this area is to capitalize on the sense of community—a community connected electronically. "The concept of community ...
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ABA Banking Journal
Cashless Policy - a Burden or Relief?
AllAfrica.com
The regulatory framework for mobile payment services released by the CBN imposes some restrictions on the volume of transactions a customer can do in a day. For the unbanked, for instance, who requires only his name and phone number to carry out ...
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Noon News: UK Launch of Lumia 900 Might get Delayed, Motorola Wins Xbox Patent ...
ITProPortal
The phone will get Google Wallet mobile payment application which makes it an excellent all rounder given that it has NFC capabilities and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The first Lumia 900 smartphones will land in the UK later than expected (although ...
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ITProPortal
Visa exec: plastic's not dying soon
Mobile Payments Today
Buse told Dow Jones Newswires the old school plastic card will be around for some time, even in markets where Visa is using mobile payment products to reach unbanked consumers. "In those markets, you will have people who want feature-rich credit ...
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Digital Dining picks Tabbedout for mobile payment service
Telecompaper (subscription)
US-based provider of hospitality point-of-sale (POS) software Digital Dining has signed a partnership agreement with US mobile payment company Tabbedout. Digital Dining will add Tabbedout's mobile payment application to its product portfolio by the end ...
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Google offers unlocked Galaxy Nexus
TG Daily
It seems impossible to compete with that, but Google has said time and again that it is committed to the mobile payment market. There are ways it can offer value, such as partnering with stores to offer Google Wallet-exclusive deals.
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TG Daily
China m-payments market set to be largest in world by 2015.
Finextra
The Chinese mobile payment market was estimated to be worth $7.6 billion at end 2011, rising to $84 billion by the end of 2015 - roughly doubling in size every year. China has already surpassed the US as the biggest smart mobile phone market worldwide.
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Finextra
Buying U.S.-China Stocks At Bargain Prices
Seeking Alpha
The company is a leading provider of Mobile Payment Solutions ("MPS") and Mobile Value Added Solutions ("MVAS") in PRC. Trunkbow's solutions enable the telecom operators to offer their subscribers access to unique mobile applications, innovative tools, ...
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Orange, Canal Plus Afrique partner
ITWeb
By Alex Kayle, Senior portals journalist Canal Plus Afrique, the African arm of the French pay TV operator, is rolling out a mobile payment service to African markets, Digital TV Europe reports. The operator has teamed with Orange to enable mobile ...
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Acquistions to change how travel customers, mobile shoppers embrace content
BizReport
ADMobile offers mobile payment, content management and analytics for location based mobile shopping. ADFormat is a content generation tool allowing brands to launch customized video, image/graphic and other campaigns across digital screens.
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Google back in the smartphone sales game: unlocked Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ (GSM ...
Engadget
The handset ships with Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with Google Wallet pre-installed (including a $10 credit to get you started with the company's mobile payment service). As a refresher, it's not Google's first time in the smartphone ...
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Qeeping all over the world!
openPR (press release)
Steady improvement in our mobile payment systems and upcoming support of further smartphone operating systems will help us minimize monetization barriers and grow our global footprint." Qeep is one of the world's largest mobile social discovery ...
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AT&T HTC One X Vs Sprint Galaxy Nexus: Two Android Killer Smartphones Land On ...
International Business Times
Further keeping its promise, Sprint has also assured its customer, the availability of the Galaxy Nexus backed by the 4G LTE capability and the Google Wallet feature (the Google's mobile payment service missing in Verizon Galaxy Nexus).
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International Business Times
ProgressSoft and ebpSource Announce Partnership at MEFTEC 2012, to Bring ...
Zawya (registration) (press release)
For the 7 th year in a row, ProgressSoft participates as MEFTEC Platinum Sponsor, presenting its renowned payment solutions, including nationwide mobile payment, electronic image-based check clearing and ACH payment solutions.
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Telesystem-Backed Adcentricity Merges with Bee Media
TechFinance
... including mobile interfaces, shopping tools, location services, mobile payment, content management, analytics and reporting; and ADFormat, an automated content generation tool that allows advertisers to execute completely customizable campaigns of ...
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HTC to shift dependence from US market: CEO
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Unlike older products launched in Japan, the new HTC J will support more localized services such as mobile television and mobile payment in a market dominated by domestic Japanese manufacturers. To promote these new models and its flagship One series, ...
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Geek deals: $134.99 gets you a Galaxy Nexus on Sprint
Geek
Google Wallet uses built-in NFC chip, making the GNex one of the first phones to feature the built-in mobile payment hardware and a system with which to use it. The Nexus comes with all the top-grade internal goodies we've come to expect from new ...
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Geek

Blogs7 new results for "Mobile Payment"
PayNearMe launches a mobile cash payment system — Tech News ...
By Ryan Kim
PayNearMe, a cash payment system that lets users pay for online purchases, bills and bus tickets at 7-Eleven stores, is now offering a fully mobile payment option. Users who don't have a card can complete their purchases without having to ...
GigaOM
Operators face uncertainty in the expanding mobile payments value ...
By Eden Zoller
Among the most difficult challenges for operators to counter will come from OTT players that offer mobile payment services free of charge to end users and merchants. This shifts the business model to mobile advertising, where operators have ...
Ovum
NASSCOM EMERGE Blog – An Initiative by the NASSCOM ...
By jyotimakhija
Alongside this growth in electronic payments, there has been a lot of focus being given on mobile based payment systems to provide anytime anywhere access to banking facilities. The Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) launch in 2010 ...
NASSCOM EMERGE Blog - An Initiative...
Mobile won't kill card payments in emerging markets – Visa ...
By Editor
Despite the anticipated ubiquity of various mobile payment systems in emerging markets, such as Indonesia and India, the growth of the middle class in these countries means credit cards will still be sought by consumers. "In those markets ...
Mobile Money Africa
PayPal's big ambitions in the real world | The Hand
By The Hand
A David and Goliath face-off may be brewing in one sector of the nascent mobile payment arena. The Goliath is PayPal, eBay's (EBAY) successful online payments business, where PayPal is the preferred payment method of eBay, and ...
The Hand
Bee Media Confirms Acquisition of Adcentricity | Mobile Marketing ...
By Michael
A platform for location-based mobile shopping, including mobile interfaces, shopping tools, location services, mobile payment, content management, analytics and reporting. ADFormat. An automated content generation tool that allows ...
Mobile Marketing Watch
10 Terms to Help You Spring into Better Payments | The Official Litle ...
By Tom Pouliot
Tom brings two decades of payment processing and bankcard industry experience to his role as Payment Evangelist. Tagged as: Credit card, Financial Services, Merchant Services, Mobile payment, Payment. Previous post: Fundamental ...
The Official Litle & Co. Blog

Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Pivotal Payments to Offer Mobile Payment App - American Banker ...
Partnering with NetSecure Payments on solution for Canadian merchants.
www.americanbanker.com/.../pivotal-payments-offer-mobile-a...
objective c - Mobile Payment Libraries iOS - Stack Overflow
when i download Mobile Payment Libraries iOS from here paypal library demo example. the demo example worked on iPhone simulator 4.3 but when run it on ...
stackoverflow.com/questions/.../mobile-payment-libraries-ios
Starbucks reaches 42M mobile payment transactions | Money ...
The Starbucks app for iPhone and Android devices lets customers check their balance, reload their card with any major credit card and view their transactions.
www.ibfsinc.com/.../starbucks-reaches-42m-mobile-payment-t...
Barclaycard launches PayTag mobile payment - Marketing news ...
Barclaycard launches PayTag mobile payment marketing news. Read Barclaycard launches ...
www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/.../Barclaycard-launches-PayT...


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