Thursday, June 7, 2012

24 "Mobile Payment" News Stories from June 6th

News18 new results for "Mobile Payment"
PassportParking Launches Mobile Payment System; First Pay-by-Phone Application ...
English: Vending machine that accepts payment ...
English: Vending machine that accepts payment with mobile phone through through texting(sms) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
MarketWatch (press release)
CHARLOTTE, NC, Jun 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Passport Parking, LLC added mobile payment to their suite of cloud based parking solutions. PassportParking Mobile Pay has been developed to enable providers greater operational efficiency through ...

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Intuit combines small-business POS, mobile payment technology
ZDNet (blog)
You could see this one coming a mile away: Intuit has shipped QuickBooks Point of Sale 2013, an application for small businesses that integrates traditional point of sale management and transaction features with the GoPayment mobile payment processing ...
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Pitch the Plastic: The Mobile Payment Era Has Begun
Business 2 Community
Let's take a look at two companies capitalizing on this trend by providing creative mobile payment solutions for the smartphone-toting masses. What if you could store all of your plastic – credit cards, loyalty cards, membership cards – in your ...
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E-Tax Mobile to Improve URA Revenue Collection
AllAfrica.com
By Julius Businge, 4 June 2012 When Uganda Revenue Authority launched its e-tax mobile payment system on May 30, it had only two partners signed in; the telecom company Warid and Orient bank. Not quite the anticipated reaction as the big banks and ...
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Shipments of NFC-ready POS terminals doubled to 2.5 million in 2011
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
The rapid growth was driven by a transition in the NFC-payments ecosystem from performing trials to accelerating the rollout of NFC-ready payment infrastructure, in preparation for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payment services.
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Nigeria trails Kenya, South Africa in payment penetration, says CBN
The Nation
In the report entitled: Financial Enclosure Strategy for 2012, CBN attributed the development to the relatively new nature of mobile payment in the country. CBN said mobile payment users in Nigeria is 0 per cent, Mexico (25 per cent), Indonesia (40 per ...
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E-commerce firms tapping into mobile shopping
China Economic Net
On the other hand, it is imperative to improve the mobile payment systems. The development of mobile phone payment is not yet complete. Users still haven't established the habit of paying large sum of money through mobile phone, which will somewhat ...
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China Economic Net
Top 10 Small Business Events from ChooseWhat.com
Sacramento Bee
Google, Yahoo and Bing are making major changes to their search functionalities and services, Facebook's IPO may not be as lucrative as originally planned, Groupon takes a step to increase it's monetary value with mobile payment solutions and much more ...
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CashU, Zain partner for online shoppers
AME Info
The iCard service offers a new exclusive mobile payment service that provides customers with the safest and easiest way to get CashU prepaid cards without the use of a credit card or K-Net (K-Net is a national company providing electronic banking ...
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'Phone, unlock thyself'
CNET
Dragon ID could be used to create and control simple logins for multiple user profiles, or to tie mobile payment options like Google Wallet to a specific voice command. The technology behind Dragon ID has been available for enterprise and governments ...
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PayAnywhere Releases SDKs for Android Developers
ADOTAS
It's timely news, considering the challenges to make m-commerce more desirable for users, and coming as it does on the heels of last week's HTML5 mobile payment service announced by ZooZ, which would accept forms of payment beyond credit cards.
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Drastic innovation is possble in a framework of digital payments
Mobile-Financial.com
The mobile payment revolution is about turning this into a digital exchange. This in itself can add significant value to the world of many. However it is the fact that systems can now access the digital nature of payments that will really lead to ...
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Mobile-Financial.com
Commentary: Are banks getting blindsided by the mobile tsunami?
Mobile Payments Today
Consider Pingit, the mobile payment system launched by Barclays Bank as a rival to PayPal. Pingit allows users to easily and rapidly make and receive payments via a mobile phone number. Imagine making a quick payment to someone with Pingit — splitting ...
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CBN drafts framework on agent banking
BusinessDay
In addition, he disclosed that 14 mobile payment scheme operators have been granted license while nine more have been granted Approval In Principle (AIP). It would also be recalled that the apex bank recently prepared a financial inclusion strategy ...
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BusinessDay
Zain Kuwait, cashU partner for online vouchers
Telecompaper (subscription)
Through this partnership Zain customers in Kuwait can purchase cashU refill coupons through the newly launched iCard mobile payment service. Payments require a card voucher which is ordered by SMS and the payment for the voucher is done via the user's ...
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Square unveils card reader at US retail stores
Telecompaper (subscription)
Mobile payment startup Square has unveiled its card reader in over 20000 retail locations nationwide, including Walgreens, Staples, and FedEx Office stores in the US. The Square Card Reader enables user to accept credit card payments on their mobile ...
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Blue Spark Technologies Partners with IDS Microchip to Promote New and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Currently, IDS Microchip has one of the broadest RFID semiconductor portfolios, which comprise readers and enhanced sensory tags for HF and UHF as well as NFC and microSD for mobile payment systems. Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. is the leader in ...
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Blogs4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
GetTaxi Raises Capital in Race to Launch in New York | PandoDaily
By Erin Griffith
But GetTaxi is all-in: the company handles the entire transaction, from the taxi request to the mobile payment. That requires deeper integration with drivers on the enterprise side, including individual hardware that the drivers connect to their ...
PandoDaily
Mobile Commerce Technologies – Market Research Report | Market ...
By linda carter
Mobile Network Operators; Mobile Software Developers; OSS/BSS Solution Providers; Handset and Tablet Manufacturers; Mobile Payment Service Providers; Content and Applications Aggregators; Mobile Marketing and Advertising Providers ...
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Mobile eCommerce Restores Dropping Margins In Some Sectors ...
By Tony
Finally, with increasing adoption of mobile payment, one can even make purchases in a few clicks. Thanks to all this, Mobile eCommerce has become increasingly popularity in the last couple of years and has helped restore falling margins in ...
designrfix.com
TELUS' CFO boasts about their Q1 number 1's | MobileSyrup.com
By Ian Hardy
... high-definition television to Canada, the first to launch HSPA+ in North America, first to launch the BlackBerry, iPhone and Android in Canada, first to launch and LTE network in Canada, and recently the first to announce a mobile payment ...
MobileSyrup.com

Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Payment Transaction Value to ...
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 ...
www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2028315
Pitch the Plastic: The Mobile Payment Era Has Begun | Social Media ...
describe the image We all know the mobile era is upon us. At its core, the massive consumer shift to smartphones is about one thing: empowerment.
socialmediatoday.com/.../pitch-plastic-mobile-payment-era-has...
How to Tell iOS Paypal Mobile Payment Library Version? - Stack ...
I'm referencing the demo against the library I have and there seem to be some differences. I just want to make sure I'm not working with something deprecated or ...
stackoverflow.com/.../how-to-tell-ios-paypal-mobile-payment-...



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