Wednesday, July 11, 2012

34 "Mobile Payment" Headlines from Around the Globe, July 11

News34 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Starbucks Expands Mobile Payment Footprint Globally with Launch of Starbucks ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The expansion of our mobile payment footprint to two of our most important markets is a strong milestone for us, but more importantly, it extends the number of customers who now have a faster and easier way to pay at Starbucks," said Adam Brotman ...
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A Shifting Mobile Payment Landscape
MarketWatch (press release)
The mobile payment revolution has been initiated by giant telecom operators and hardware providers in partnership with major stakeholders who engaged in exciting joint ventures. Security concerns form an obstacle for massive customer acceptance, ...
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Survey: Mobile payment use more doubles in a year
Chain Store Age
The new report, "Business Strategy: Results from the 2012 Consumer Payments Survey," found that those that of whose had made a mobile payment, more than half used PayPal Mobile (56%), with Amazon Payments and Apple's iTunes service statistically ...
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A Banking Giant Makes a Mobile Payment Bet
Technology Review
Backing from JPMorgan Chase will speed a startup's rise in a crowded field.
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Technology Review
Mobile Payment Startup Paydiant Raises $12 Million in Series B Funding
BostInno
Paydiant provides banks and retailers with a white label mobile payment solution that enables them to quickly deploy a branded, contactless mobile wallet, mobile payment and cash access platform. The new investment will be used to accelerate product ...
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Starbucks for Android overhauled with new design and mobile pay for UK and ...
VentureBeat
... UK and Canada, where its been available to Starbucks for iPhone users since January of this year, is still unknown. Starbucks, said Brotman, would release a combined U.S., UK, and Canada mobile payment figure at a later date. Photo credit ...
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VentureBeat
India and Smart Technology: the promise of accelerated social and economic ...
MarketWatch (press release)
All this fostered the emergence of mobile payment services (Obopay, Paymate, iMobile) and encouraged the NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) to develop IMPS (Interbank Mobile Payment Service). This service offers the option to transfer money ...
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Mobile Payments Offer Travelers Convenience, but Uptake Is Slow
The FINANCIAL
Mobile Payments Offer Travelers Convenience, but Uptake Is Slow. 11/07/2012 04:27 (00:00 minutes ago). The FINANCIAL -- Mobile payment systems have the potential to provide significant benefits to business travelers, as well as travel managers. Email ...
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StarTimes Partners Stanbic IBTC On Mobile Payment
P.M. News
Daily Nigerian News from Nigeria's leading evening Newspaper.
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Paydiant Closes $12M in Series B Funding
Broadcast Newsroom
WELLESLEY, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/10/12 -- , the provider of a cloud-based, white label mobile payment and offer redemption platform for retailers, banks and payment processors, today announced that it closed a $12 million round of funding led by.
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Are Mobile Payments Really as Popular as Studies Suggest?
Daily Deal Media
During the past twelve months, mobile payments have more than doubled in popularity, reaching over 33% of survey respondents. "Of those that had made a mobile payment," IDC reveals, "more than half used PayPal Mobile (56%), with Amazon Payments ...
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Daily Deal Media
IDC: One in three US consumers using mobile payments
Fiercemobilecontent
Among consumers who've made a mobile payment, 56 percent used PayPal Mobile, with Amazon Payments and Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iTunes service tied at about 40 percent each. IDC notes that despite iTunes' strong showing and the overall popularity ...
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Paydiant raises $12M in VC funding
Boston Herald
Paydiant, which provides a cloud-based, white label mobile payment and offer redemption platform for retailers, banks and payment processors, said today it has closed a $12 million funding round, which will be used to speed up product development as ...
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Paydiant Inks $12M
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Paydiant, the provider of a cloud-based, white label mobile payment and offer redemption platform for retailers, banks and payment processors, today announced that it closed a $12 million round of funding led by Stage 1 Ventures. The Series B ...
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More Consumers Making Mobile Payments
MediaPost Communications
Among the people who have made a mobile payment, PayPal Mobile was the most common method, with more than half (56%) using that system. The other top platforms were Amazon Payments and Apple's iTunes, each used by about 40% for mobile ...
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MediaPost Communications
GoPago is mobile payments done right: Backed by JPMorgan Chase, Tim ...
IntoMobile
With all of the mobile payment solutions around today, it's hard to keep up with them. Likely the most interesting and novel approaches to mobile payments is Google Wallet, as there's something that's just fun about paying with a tap of a phone. That ...
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IDC: One-third of Americans have used mobile payments
BizReport
"Over a third of the people that had made a mobile payment said they had done it at the point of sale." Of those that had made a mobile payment, more than half used PayPal Mobile (56%), with Amazon Payments and Apple's iTunes service tied at around 40% ...
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UK carriers set to get EU nod for mobile payments joint venture
Computing
The initiative is likely to build on previous developments by these companies in the mobile payment area, such as O2 Money's Wallet app, and Vodafone's similar contactless payment scheme that it unveiled in conjunction with Visa back in February.
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Computing
Angry Birds Creator Selects Braintree's Payments Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
Braintree's mobile payment solutions also solve for issues such as one-click checkout, bandwidth efficient transactions and encryption of credit card data on mobile devices. The payment gateway has the proven scalability to handle the global surges in ...
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Paydiant dials up $12m for white-label mobile wallet
Digital Media Wire
Paydiant, the provider of a cloud-based, mobile payment and offer redemption platform, has raised $12 million in its second round of venture capital, led by Stage 1 Ventures.
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Paydiant secures $12M in Series B financing
Mobile Payments Today
Mobile wallet provider lands money to help build out merchant partnerships.
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The Death of Cash Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
NASDAQ
There's no bank to charge checking account fees or credit card interest, no mobile-payment processor taking a commission on each payment. Cash is the most efficient way to transfer value from one person to another, and until that changes -- and there's ...
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Google Wallet facing a turbulent future in mobile commerce
QR Code Press
The company has been among the first of its kind to produce a mobile payment application, called Google Wallet. The Wallet was released last year and was highly anticipated amongst the company's fans. The application quickly made headlines for its ...
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QR Code Press
Mobile Payment China 2012
Developing Telecoms (press release)
The 3rd Mobile Payment China 2012, as China's leading international networking and information exchange platform for mobile payment, will be held on November 14-15 in Shanghai, China.
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Mobile Payments Platform Paydiant Raises $12 Million
The Inquisitr
The platform will provide banks and retailers with a motile payment solution, which will help them quickly move out a branded, contactless mobile wallet, mobile payment, and cash access platform, which will appeal to users who want to make payments ...
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ViziApps and ROAM Data Enable Businesses to Create Mobile Apps
Wireless Developer Network (press release)
Through this partnership, ViziApps and ROAM Data are delivering the first 'no-coding' mobile app creation platform to enable businesses to easily create their own custom branded mobile apps to process mobile payment transactions with and without card ...
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Paydiant gets $12M in Series B financing
Mass High Tech
At the time, the company didn't provide many details on its business plan, but now says it is focused on providing cloud-based mobile payment and offer-redemption software for retailers, banks and payment processors, allowing them to integrate mobile ...
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Mass High Tech
Aurus, Daily Systems partner on out-of-the-box mobile POS
Mobile Payments Today
Daily Systems, LLC, a mobile point of sale hardware manufacturer, is partnering with Aurus Inc. to offer a complete mobile POS solution, the companies announced. The solutions will leverage Aurus'whizPay mobile payment framework for iOS devices co.
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SegPay adds payment tools to Spankmo
Mobile Entertainment
And now it has struck another deal, partnering with Spankmo to offer the adult engagement firm's clients a new batch of mobile payment tools. The new partners stand to profit from clients that they convert from the web to mobile, and also those that ...
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Mobile Entertainment
ICANN tries to overcome missteps - Hearings on tap for FCC oversight, mobile ...
Politico
MOBILE PAYMENTS HEARING — The Senate banking committee takes its second look at mobile payment tech today, part of its series of hearings on the regulatory systems that govern the emerging wallets and other tools. Expect Michael Katz, a top ...
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Things you might not know about cellphones in Africa [Video]
Memeburn
It's no secret that mobile is the medium for Africa — millions use mobile-only social networks, young cellphone users are driving the growth of Twitter on the continent and mobile payment systems are major ecommerce players. Wondering why? It may have ...
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Memeburn
Tim Lincecum Teams Up With GoPago to Thank Fans With Free Lunch
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jul 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- GoPago, the leading cloud-based mobile payment app backed by JPMorgan Chase, announced today that it has partnered with two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum of the San ...
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Paydiant Raises $12 Million in New Funds
American Banker (subscription)
Paydiant provides a cloud-based, white-label mobile payment and offer redemption platform for retailers, banks and payment processors. Paydiant allows banks and retailers to integrate mobile wallet capabilities into their iPhone or Android applications.
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Starbucks launches Android app for getting your caffeine fix around the UK
The Next Web (blog)
Our mobile payment app has proven extremely popular amongst iPhone users and is the fastest and most convenient way to pay. Now many more customers with Android phones will be able to get the benefits of speedier service through using the app.
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The Next Web (blog)

Blogs7 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Remote Payments Activity Doubles | IP Carrier
By Gary Kim
Of those consumers that had made a mobile payment, more than half used PayPal Mobile (56 percent), with Amazon Payments and Apple's iTunes service statistically tied at about 40 percent. For the most part, that activity was centered ...
IP Carrier
Summit one-payment for govt 'll create more awareness on cashless ...
By mbgolu
Again, cashless policy will also see various players introduce mobile payment solutions, internet payment solution and other payment solutions that will make it more efficient for people to transact business. In fact the entire objective is to ...
Vanguard News
Starbucks launches mobile payments for Android devices in Canada ...
By Daniel Bader
That's about all I can say as Starbucks has finally brought its mobile payment service, and therefore its official app, to Canadian coffee drinkers. The ability to pay with your iPhone launched last year and has been used millions of times since ...
MobileSyrup.com
Intelligent Cash Handling Key to Healthy Profits - Retail Fraud
By Paul Bessant
Whilst the payments community is awash with new contactless and mobile payment methods, a major new study into the retail sector has found that cash is increasing in terms of value as a payment method. The Retail Fraud Study, ...
Retail Fraud
Apple Sued Over Noise Cancellation Technology | SiliconANGLE
By Mellisa Tolentino
In other Apple news, the iPhone maker is said to be concerned about the security of mobile payments, and that's why they haven't launched their own mobile payment scheme like Google. Fret not, fanbois, of course Apple will launch their own ...
SiliconANGLE
Dream and Hustle » A Guide for Brothas and Sistas on How to Get ...
By Ed
This is why I stated over a very long time on this blog and covered mobile payments to death on this blog so brothas and sistas realize why we need to start the mobile payment business in our community and not let anyone else do this.
Dream and Hustle
A Shifting Mobile Payment Landscape - Pakistan Press International
By PPI News Agency
The mobile payment revolution has been initiated by giant telecom operators and hardware providers in partnership with major stakeholders who engaged in exciting joint ventures. Security concerns form an obstacle for massive customer ...
Pakistan Press International

Web4 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Apple dropped NFC mobile payment plans due to battery and ...
Amongst the many products Apple unveiled at this year's WWDC was Passbook, an app that collates a user's coupons, tickets, and payment cards for easy ...
www.theverge.com/.../apple-nfc-mobile-payment-system-batte...
Starbucks Expands Mobile Payment Footprint Globally with Launch ...
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced the continued global expansion of the Starbucks mobile platform with the roll-out of Starbucks® app for An.
www.businesswire.com/.../Starbucks-Expands-Mobile-Paymen...
Mobile payment use nearly doubles in a year: report - Mobile ...
No one mobile payment method dominates. Mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular, with 34 percent of survey respondents having made a ...
www.mobilecommercedaily.com/.../mobile-payment-use-nearl...
Mobile Payment TransactionsViziApps | ViziApps
ViziApps, whose ViziApps™ mobile platform enables inexpensive creation and publishing of data-rich mobile apps with no coding, and ROAM Data, the leading ...
www.viziapps.com/tag/mobile-payment-transactions/



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