Friday, August 3, 2012

45 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for August 3rd, 2012

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Google Wallet now accepts multiple cards
CNN
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Google just took your phone a step closer to replacing your wallet in the mobile payment revolution. The company expanded its mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, to accept multiple credit cards. Users can now connect their ...
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Oops! American Express Never Agreed To Be Part Of Google's Big Wallet Upgrade
TechCrunch
Google announced a substantial update to its Wallet mobile payment service the other day, but it turns out the company may have been overstating things a bit. According a post on Google's Commerce blog, the service now plays well with all major credit card ...
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TechCrunch
Now book rail tickets using your mobile phones
Times of India
MUMBAI: State Bank of India will be able to pay for online train bookings through mobile banking using the Interbank Mobile Payment System (IMPS) that is available to all depositors. After selecting their tickets on the IRCTC(Indin railway catering ant tourism ...
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SBI launches rail ticket booking through mobile payment service
Hindu Business Line
The State Bank Mobile Banking Service has launched a mobile payment service where customers can now book railway tickets over the IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation) Web site and pay through SBI. Customers can pay through ...
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Apparently American Express Never Agreed To Be Part Of Google Wallet
Business Insider
Google announced the newest version of its mobile payment app Google Wallet earlier this week, and the big selling point this time around is that you can use any major credit card with it. However, that may not be true for long. It turns out that American ...
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Business Insider
Google Wallet Starts Carrying More Plastic
TechNewsWorld
The mobile payment system Google Wallet now works with all major credit cards and will begin transitioning to a cloud-based model. The service allows users to tap their smartphones to pay at a retail checkout location, rather than having to swipe a credit ...
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'Strong willingness' to adopt mobile payment methods
Voxy
New Zealanders are early adopters of technology that makes our lives easier. According to the results of the latest MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), there is strong willingness amongst Kiwis to adopt mobile payment methods with New ...
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Boston Mobile Payment Company Raises Another $21 million
CBS Local
Boston Mobile Payment Company Raises Another $21 million. By Anthony Silva, WBZ NewsRadio 1030 New England Business Editor. August 2, 2012 6:05 PM. Share this. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline ...
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CBS Local
Cocoa Beach Adds Paid Parking to Downtown – but No meters or Pay Stations ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Everyone else can pay for parking only using ParkNOW! mobile Payment or they park at a meter. For many years beachgoers have avoided paying to park at meters by grabbing the free parking spaces on A1A and elsewhere in downtown, just blocks off the ...
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Now buy online rail tickets without cards or net banking
Times of India
An SBI official said that the bank expects the Interbank Mobile Payment System gain in popularity as a payment mechanism and expects the volume of transactions to growth because of the convenience and security it offers. IMPS is a remittance facility that ...
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Mobile Payments Dance Draws a Crowd
Wall Street Journal (blog)
T-Mobile, the U.S. arm of Deutsche Telekom, teams with Verizon and AT&T in introducing the Isis mobile payment system slated to launch in beta later this month. Google, which announced its Google Wallet product last year to enable users to carry their credit ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
You can soon tap your phones to pay for shopping, transport
Channel News Asia
Some 72 per cent out of an estimated four million Singapore's mobile phone subscribers use smartphones. Industry watchers believe the trend is rising and with more tech savvy users, such mobile payment tools may come in handy. - CNA/ck ...
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Google Wallet gets a Makeover
Gamenguide
Google recently introduced changes to its mobile-payment system, this move will let Google have an edge over the consumers' "digital wallets." The change will allow consumers to upload his credit/debit card number onto a software application, and then ...
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American Express Does Not Support Google Wallet
Benzinga
At the time, Verizon was in the process of developing a mobile payment platform with T-Mobile and AT&T (NYSE: T). The platform was expected to receive help from Discover Financial Services to process payments and Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), which ...
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Will Google Wallet take off now?
MSN Money
The king of search just opened up its mobile payment system, Google Wallet, which had been limited to Citibank cards, to all credit and debit cards, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. That means you can now sync any credit card ...
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Kiwis keen to use mobile payment tech
NZ City
Kiwis keen to use mobile payment tech. A new survey shows New Zealanders are keen to get on board with new mobile payment technology, but need brushing up on exactly how to use it. 3 August 2012. A new survey shows New Zealanders are keen to get ...
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Scvngr's LevelUp raises additional $9m for mobile payments
Digital Media Wire
Mobile payment services startup LevelUp said today it has raised an additional $9 million from T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's investment arm, and other individual investors. This brings LevelUp's current round to $21 million, including the previously ...
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Near Field Communication services arrive in Singapore
AsiaOne
DigitalOne | 03-08-12. 0 comment. Mobile payment services using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will be launched in Singapore at the end of August. This means consumers can pay for purchases by tapping a reader with their mobile phones, ...
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Google Wallet opens up support for everyone
TG Daily
Google has released the biggest update yet to its mobile payment platform. Now, users are able to link any of their existing credit or debit cards to their Google Wallet account. "To support all credit and debit cards, we changed our technical approach to storing ...
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Google revamping mobile payments
San Francisco Business Times (blog)
Google Inc. is making changes to its "Google Wallet" mobile payment system with the aim of making it easier to enroll in and use the system, the Wall Street Journal reports. The changes will allow consumers to put a credit or debit card number into an ...
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LevelUp: Better for biz than Google?
Upstart (blog)
Seth Priebatsch, founder of LevelUp, says the mobile payment system is seeking to become just the 6th new payment network in U.S history. Kyle Alspach: VC Editor- Boston Business Journal: Email. One year into the rollout of the LevelUp mobile payment ...
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Home Depot fights 'abusive' credit card fees with PayPal system
Computerworld
In similar fashion, Google's Google Wallet, the ISIS mobile payment consortium of three wireless carriers, and even Apple's App Store could begin encouraging customers to use mobile phones to charge purchases that would be paid to wireless carriers or ...
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LevelUp Raises $9 Million From T-Venture and Other Investors
Equities.com
LevelUp, the second largest mobile payment network behind Starbucks, recently announced that it has achieved its ambitious goal of lowering its merchant interchange rate to zero. Available at more than 3000 businesses nationwide, LevelUp provides value ...
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Galaxy S III hack allows owners to install Google Wallet
QR Code Press
Verison caused a bit of a stir in the mobile commerce realm when it announced that the Galaxy S III would not support the Google Wallet, Google's mobile payment platform. Galaxy S III owners may still be able to use the payment application, however, thanks ...
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LevelUp raises another $9M
Boston Herald
LevelUp will use the funding to fuel both product development and the expansion of its "Interchange Zero" mobile payment network. Randeep Wilkhu, senior investment manager at T-Venture, will join the LevelUp board as an observer, the company said.
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QuickPay raises $3.5M in seed funding for m-payment parking solution
Mobile Payments Today
QuickPay Corp., a provider of mobile payment solutions aimed at parking facilities, announced today it has secured $3.5 million in seed funding. The company also has named Barney Pell as CEO. Investors in this seed round include Fontinalis Partners, ...
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LevelUp adds another $9M to its coffers
Mobile Payments Today
LevelUp adds another $9M to its coffers. Tags: Mobile Marketing, Mobile/Virtual Wallet, POS, Restaurants, Retail. August 2, 2012. Boston-based mobile payment startup LevelUp has snagged an additional $9 million in funding. The company announced that ...
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Blogs11 new results for "Mobile Payment"
IBM recommends mobile payment systems for Accra residents ...
By emma
Technology company, IBM says it has made recommendations to help the country's capital, Accra to maximize income from city services and one of the.
Ghana Business News
Future Growth Potential of Mobile Money in China: Market Profile ...
By admin
The country is also recording an increasing uptake of contactless mobile payment services with NFC being the primary technology adopted for this implementation of this service.The mobile payment initiative is further driven by initiatives ...
Healthcare Store Online
Near Field Communication (NFC) Services Go Li... « Blog ...
By Lester Chan
Singapore, 3 Aug, 2012 – The consortium led by Gemalto today announced its readiness to launch mobile payment services using the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of ...
Lester Chan's Website
Mobile payment network LevelUp adds $9m from corporate venture ...
By Benjamin Chambers
Mobile payment network LevelUp adds $9m from corporate venture firm T-Venture.
AltAssets Private Equity News
Mobile wallet makeover positions Google higher in NFC race ...
By Rimma Kats
Mobile payment advancements. Google decided to make its mobile wallet universal after getting feedback and requests from its users. Google Wallet is currently available on six devices from Sprint and Virgin Mobile, as well as the new Nexus ...
Mobile Commerce Daily
TSM Qualification enables First Data to support financial institutions ...
By krowne
"Being one of the first brands to pilot NFC wallets and to issue mobile payment stickers, Discover now has a TSM qualification process that provides our partners with confidence that the platform powering their NFC-based products is ...
Contactless Intelligence
Street Fight Daily: FiveStars, LevelUp Raise Double-Digit Funding ...
By The Editors
Mobile payment service LevelUp, an off-shoot of Boston-based SCVNGR, announced this morning that it has raised $9 million from T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. LevelUp users can pay with their mobile device of ...
Street Fight
"MDM offers a holistic approach to security" - CXOtoday.com
By Pankaj Mishra
As the market sees the evolution of concepts such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), social networking, mobile payment and e-commerce, mobility has become mainstream for nearly all enterprises. Owing to the complexities in the mobile ...
RSS Feed - CXOtoday.com
Venture capital deals - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term ...
By Dan Primack
SCVNGR, a Boston-based developer of the LevelUp mobile payment system, has raised $9 million in additional Series D funding from T-Venture. VentureWire reports that the valuation was $172 million. The round now stands at $21 million, ...
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds,...
The Cashless Society
By Scott Pape
The mobile payment revolution has already begun. According to Google, there are more mobile phones in the world than there are dunnies. And last week a Deloitte report forecast that within five years, two and a half billion people will ...
The Barefoot Investor
LevelUp Raises Additional $9M | FinSMEs
By FinSMEs
LevelUp, a Boston, MA-based mobile payment network, has raised an additional $9m in venture capital. Backers in the funding, which is the second part of a larger round and brings the total raised to just more than $21m, include T-Venture.
FinSMEs

Web7 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Mobile Payment System Company Secures $9M in Financing ...
LevelUp, the world's first "interchange zero" payment network, announced today that it has raised an additional $9 million in venture capital from Deutsche ...
www.qsrmagazine.com/.../mobile-payment-system-company-s...
Google fattens its Wallet and amps up mobile payment rivalry with ...
Google has added security features to its Google Wallet, an app that now supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and ...
upstart.bizjournals.com/.../google-wallet-supports-more-plastic...
Mobile Payment Processing - Aramor Payments
Aramor Payments is a Canadian payment solution provider specializing in credit card processing, mobile payments, eCommerce sales, and integrated kiosks.
www.aramorpayments.com/mobile-payment-processing.php
Starbucks Enables Mobile Payment for Canadian Android Users ...
If you live in Canada, own an Android phone and have a passion for Starbucks, you're in luck. Starbucks has changed its app to allow Android users to make ...
www.omeganetworksolutions.com/starbucks-enables-mobile-p...
Guest post: Top mobile payment apps | Technology news blog ...
Mobile payment apps are here to stay and are an excellent alternative to using cash or credit cards. So which app companies are leaders in the industry right ...
technewsarm.com/2012/.../guest-post-top-mobile-payment-ap...
Partnerships to be Part of Successful Strategy in Mobile Payment ...
Near Field Communication (NFC), the promising mobile (m)-payment technology, has not created the revenue-generating opportunities the telecom industry ...
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IBM recommends mobile payment systems for Accra residents ...
Technology company, IBM says it has made recommendations to help the country's capital, Accra to maximize income from city services and one of the ...
www.ghanamma.com/.../ibm-recommends-mobile-payment-sy...



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