Wednesday, July 11, 2012

36 "Mobile Payment" News Headlines From Around the Globe, July 10th

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Paydiant, mobile payment platform, raises $12m
ZDNet
Summary: The cloud-based, white label mobile payment and offers platform doesn't require proprietary hardware to work.
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Paydiant Closes $12M in Series B Funding
MarketWatch (press release)
While other mobile payment solutions require consumers to buy new phones or retailers to invest in costly new payment terminals, Paydiant works with existing smartphones, POS systems, and payment terminals, including entry-level countertop devices.
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Paydiant adds $12M for mobile payment tech
Upstart (blog)
Boston mobile payments startup Paydiant said Tuesday it's raised a $12 million Series...
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Mobile payment use rises in US
Warc
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Star Micronics Partners With SalesVu
MarketWatch (press release)
SalesVu's mobile payment and point of sale solution is designed to significantly improve efficiency for retail stores, restaurants, and mobile businesses. SalesVu is comprised of a payment application for the Apple(R) iPhone(R), iPad(R) and iPod touch ...
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Paydiant Gets $12M More To Build Out Its White-Label Mobile Payments API
TechCrunch
The first is that it is completely white-labelled and does not have a direct retail play of its own: that means a potentially more ubiquitous service, if the banks and merchants sign on to use Paydiant, backend for their own mobile payment and offer ...
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UK mobile payment JV may get regulatory go-ahead
Mobile Payments Today
The Financial Times is reporting that Project Oscar, the codename for the mobile payment joint venture between rival mobile operators in the U.K.,
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Apple Not Rushing Into Mobile Payments
NACS Online
Phil Schiller, Apple's head of worldwide marketing, said digital wallet mobile payment services are "all fighting over their piece of the pie, and we aren't doing that." While Apple has revolutionized music and mobile phone industries, it isn't often ...
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First App for Mobile Meal Payments Hits Apple® App StoreTM
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first app that turns an iPhone® into a mobile payment system for school meals is now available for download in the Apple® App StoreTM. The free MyPaymentsPlus app by Horizon Software International – developers of the ...
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Mobile payments surge in the US
Utalkmarketing
By contrast the closest Apple has got to this stage is through talks of Passbook, a mobile payment app that stores barcodes and can be used instead of printing off tickets, essentially keeping all rewards cards in one place. However industry analysts ...
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Study: 1 in 3 US consumers have used mobile payments
Mobile Payments Today
The number of payments made via mobile phone more than doubled in the past year, according to IDC Financial Insights' annual Consumer Payments Survey. The survey also found that one in three respondents have used a mobile payment method.
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Digital Media Firm Unites Parking Meters, Smartphones and Payment Solutions
mediacaster
"We are very proud to have designed and implemented the mobile payment ecosystem for Stationnement de Montréal, including custom deployment to all major platforms," said Ghislain Dallaire, Senior Director Mobile Operations at TC Media. "Thanks to the ...
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Mobile payments app for school meals hits App Store
Finextra
The first app that turns an iPhone into a mobile payment system for school meals is now available for download in the Apple App Store. 9 views 0 comments. The free MyPaymentsPlus app by Horizon Software International - developers of the popular ...
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SegPay Expands Mobile Offerings With Spankmo Partnership
AVN News (press release)
Additional revenues can be earned through offering web-to-mobile upsells, as well as Segpay's EU Debit and Spankmo's mobile payment options for international markets. "The partnership between SegPay and Spankmo is all about expanding options for ...
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Technology Giants Focus on Mobile Devices
Business Review India
Mobile Payment Apps. Payment preferences of the consumers are shifting from online to mobile payments. Mobile Wallet services are likely to replace credit/debit cards and net banking. Organizations other than financial institutions will also invest in ...
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Report: Apple cautious about entering mobile payments
Mobile Payments Today
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple Inc. considered adding mobile payments and NFC technologies to its most recent iPhone 4S model. The i.
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Apps turn smartphones into digital wallets
The Australian Financial Review
Industry officials and analysts acknowledge that when a mobile payment is made, the money moves through more hands than it would with a cash or credit payment. In addition to the smartphone manufacturer – Apple or Samsung, for example – the payment ...
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Ultrabroadband Wireless Helps Mobile Workers Go Farther
Electric Light & Power
The technology is vital to business, and it is used daily from enabling 24/7, two-way communication in the field to automating meter reading and mobile payment collection. One only can imagine what Gross would say about the utility industry; the ...
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Olympic Athletes May Be A Testbed For Hackers
2d-code
Back in May Samsung Electronics and Visa announced that a Samsung Galaxy S III, enabled with Visa's mobile payment application, will be given to athletes and trialists during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The use of the smartphone's Near Field ...
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Seamless offers credit account for SEQR mobile payments
Telecompaper (subscription)
Seamless has teamed up with Swedish financial services company Collector to offer customers a credit account for purchases made using Seamless' QR code-based mobile payment platform, SEQR. The service is called SEQR Fakturakonto and it allows ...
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Watch for New Attacks Aimed at Mobile Devices
Blogger News Network (blog)
Only download mobile payment applications from a reputable app store. Check user reviews of the app and make sure to read to app's privacy policy on what data of yours it is accessing and sharing. Don't do any mobile transactions over unsecured Wi-Fi ...
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Freak Using Facebook to Buy You Lunch
NBC Bay Area (blog)
It's almost stereotypical... but the recently struggling pitcher has partnered with mobile-payment app GoPago to distribute the $10 vouchers, according to a release. Freak will post the first of four codes to his Facebook page beginning July 10. Each ...
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Charts: If you're concerned about privacy, don't use your cell phone
GigaOM
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Apple: Taking Their Sweet Time On Building The Future
RedOrbit
According to the Wall Street Journal piece, there were some Apple engineers who wanted to be aggressive with their mobile payment strategy and roll out a solution sooner. Apple, as they often do, chose to take a slower approach, letting those first out ...
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Middle East Start Ups Thrive in Beirut
Wall Street Journal (blog)
However, Hassan Baydoun, founder of the mobile payment application, says the event did help him meet the co-founders of his company—which the following year won first place at the annual regional technology conference Arabnet. Lebanon,; MENA ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
The Internet of things is coming to a grocery store near you
GigaOM
... creating tomorrow's health care · Connected world: the consumer technology revolution · The Internet of Things: What It Is, Why It Matters. If you like this story, please share it. Tweet · Previous · Paydiant raises $12M for white label mobile ...
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Samsung Galaxy S III now available in Kenya
Bizcommunity.com
The Galaxy S III is powered by Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, which enhances usability and practicality. The handset comes with a 4.8" HD Super AMOLED display to enhance the viewing experience. The phone also has mobile payment applications ...
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Blogs8 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Popularity of mobile payments doubles - postalnews blog
By admin
Of those that had made a mobile payment, more than half used PayPal Mobile (56%), with Amazon Payments and Apple's iTunes service statistically tied at about 40%. In addition, prepaid cards showed strong growth, particularly in the ...
postalnews blog
How Credit Cards and Mobile Payments Build Your Business ...
By Stephanie Christensen
... All About GoPayment's New Card Reader · Getting Started with Your Intuit GoPayment Credit Card Reader · 5 Tips for Starting an Ice Cream Truck Business · Intuit GoPayment Wins Best Mobile Payment Award at 2011 Mobile Excellence ...
GoPayment Blog
T.G.I Friday's relies on iAd to increase mobile ordering app downloads
By Rimma Kats
"Driving app downloads is a smart way to deliver a POS-integrated mobile payment tool, especially since Friday's can reward consumers for trying it and learn about ways to engage via mobile commerce, as the space matures. Smart retailers ...
Mobile Commerce Daily
Researchers test privacy and mobile ID - forum OCOVA
With the emergence of Google Wallet and the slow migration toward mobile payment transactions, researchers at the University of Toronto had an idea. How about creating an app just for identification purposes? It would act as a simple form of ...
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The Retail Email Blog: AM Inbox: Google Wallet + mobile optimization
By Chad White
Despite the rapid adoption of smartphones and mobile apps, mobile payment systems like this don't appear to be attracting much interest, as evidenced by the lack of promotion by retailers. Mobile coupons that can be read in stores are ...
The Retail Email Blog
Square: The Mega-Disrupter Everyone Wants to Be In, Even the ...
By Sarah Lacy
And Square — unquestionably the leader of the mobile payment pack in terms of innovation, vision, cash, team, and buzz — wisely has created something that isn't just iPhone dependent. It fits into a headphone jack, something every phone ...
PandoDaily
NewNet Communication Technologies
By admin
NewNet is uniquely poised to support the competitive marketplace in providing applications such as mobile payment and broadband wireless data services. I look forward to working with RCA and its members," said P.J. Louis, NewNet CEO.
NewNet Communication Technologies
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Web1 new result for "Mobile Payment"
5th Mobile Contactless Payment Innovations Summit | NFC Times ...
China Mobile Signs Deal with Payment Network UnionPay to Cooperate on Mobile Payment. Published: Jun 21 2012. China's giant mobile operator, China ...
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