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Visa: Mobile payments will hit mainstream in 2 to 3 years

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Visa: Mobile payments will hit mainstream in 2 to 3 years
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Visa is using the Olympics as an international showcase for mobile payments. The company has hooked up 140000 payment terminals in London with near-field communication, or NFC, chips that enable the tap-and-pay process. The locations include 5000 ...


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NXP Semiconductors 2nd-qtr beats on growing NFC sales
Reuters
Google Inc has chosen NFC as the standard for mobile payments on its Android platform, and Apple Inc is widely expected to follow suit by incorporating it in the upcoming iPhone 5. Demand from banking customers and mobile phone makers for NFC chips is ...
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Razorfish dispenses mobile content with NFC bubble gum machine
NFC World
Instead of dispensing bubble gum in return for inserting a coin, the Razorfish concept device, dubbed "Digital Gum Goods", allows consumers to download digital content to their NFC phone in return for a small payment. The device "is packed with all ...
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NFC retail payments market to be worth $180bn in 5 years
MediaTel Newsline
The company forecasts that North America, Western Europe and Far East regions will contribute 90% of this market value, as smartphones with NFC payment technology become standard. Juniper Research welcomed developments in the mobile market in ...
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Visa showcasing mobile payments at Olympics
Mobile Payments Today
It features an Olympic-branded version of the Visa mobile payment application, Visa payWave, to facilitate tap-and-go payments using NFC technologies. Contactless Retail Locations: More than 140000 payment terminals throughout the U.K. will accept Visa ...
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First mobile banking service launches in Burkina Faso
Developing Telecoms (press release)
Development Agenda. Mobile Finance & NFC · Humanitarian Projects · Security · Green Telecoms. LATEST NEWS: 3G licences raise EUR60 million in DRC auctions Liberalisation to boost ... operator has launched its own mobile money platform in partnership ...
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Visa's Earnings Will Show Spending Improvement Despite Macro Headwinds
Trefis
More than 140000 contactless terminals are expected to be setup across the UK, which will allow customers to make payments on-the-go via Visa's mobile payment application, Visa payWave using Near Field Communication (NFC) payment facility. (See Visa ...
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ING to pilot NFC in Poland
NFC World
The two hundred pilot testers, all employees of Bank Slaski or its partners Visa Europe and Oberthur, will use BlackBerry NFC phones or iPhones equipped with an NFC add-on to make mobile payments at merchants equipped with contactless point-of-sale ...
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