Wednesday, September 5, 2012

41 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for Sept 5, 2012

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Walmart's Mobile Payment Test: Checking Out 'Scan and Go'
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DailyFinance
Apple (AAPL), a mobile-payment pioneer, launched EasyPay last year, which allows customers at its Apple Stores to complete purchases on their smartphones without the help of a store employee. Even before that, those stores were largely cashier-less: ...
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Brookfield to roll out mobile payment app for parking lot at village hall
Riverside Brookfield Landmark
Brookfield to roll out mobile payment app for parking lot at village hall. No cash for commuter parking, no problem. By BOB UPHUES Editor. In October commuters who park their cars in the lot behind the Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave ...
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Cause Commerce via Mobile Wallet Could Spark New Mega Trend in Mobile ...
Equities.com
Just last week LevelUp, a mobile payment startup out of Boston, announced they were the first mobile payment app to enable users the ability to give a portion of their merchant-funded reward to charity. Smith says, "This is a 'Sneak Preview' of the ...
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Mobile water payment system gaining popularity
The Swazi Observer
THE mobile payment uptake of the Swaziland Water Services Corporation (SWSC) is very high with close to 91 transactions made in two weeks. This new mode of paying water bills was launched by the parastatal in collaboration with Swazi MTN around July.
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Orange offers Quick Tap mobile wallet service for Samsung Galaxy S3
IDG News Service
The latest report by Juniper Research predicts that the scale of global mobile payment transactions will rise nearly fourfold over the next five years to more than $1.3 trillion. However, current adoption is still sluggish. This is partly because of ...
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EU watchdog clears UK mobile wallets venture
ITworld.com
The new venture will provide various mobile commerce services to businesses, including mobile payment transaction services, mobile marketing services, and associated data analytics services. Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @BrusselsGeek or email tips and ...
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Monitise narrows losses, signs mobile payment deal with Hong Kong lender
China Post
Monitise narrows losses, signs mobile payment deal with Hong Kong lender. Monitise PLC's full-year loss narrowed and the British mobile banking technology company said it entered a deal with a unit of Bank of China to provide the Hong Kong-based lender ...
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Mobile Payments Appeal to Many in Britain
The FINANCIAL
... especially high considering they were among all internet users—not just those who have a smartphone or other advanced handset that would be necessary to carry out a mobile payment transaction using technologies like near-field communication (NFC).
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EU to clear UK mobile operators' e-wallet plan: source
Reuters
Vodafone, Telefonica's 02 and Everything Everywhere, owned by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, aim to compete with similar mobile payment services from Google, Apple and Facebook. The mobile wallet scheme, called Project Oscar, allows users ...
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New international survey reveals mobile spending behaviour
The Fonecast
mopay also noted that mobile payment traffic from direct-to-carrier billing grew almost four-fold in the survey period. Kolja Reiss, managing director at mopay, said "Based on our data it's clear that consumers are embracing direct-to-carrier billing ...
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Skype offers carrier billing through MACH
Mobile Europe
MACH to enable new mobile payment option for Skype Credits globally. MACH has been selected by Skype as the first vendor to deliver direct operator billing to new and existing Skype users in markets across the globe, starting in October. The rollout ...
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Ingenico's iWL2 Series Mobile Payment Terminals Are First Devices to Connect ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Built on Ingenico's industry leading Telium2 architecture, the iWL2 series represents the smallest and most lightweight secure mobile payment devices on the market today. With 3G connectivity and color screen option, the iWL2 series provides merchants ...
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Google Wallet Migrates to Cloud Amid Security Fears
Midsize Insider
Black hat conferences in recent years have reported vulnerabilities in various mobile payment applications, including Google Wallet and those offered by Square Inc. This move to the cloud is expected to address many, but not all of these concerns as ...
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Frugal Consumers Will Drive Widespread Mobile Adoption, While Cheap Bond ...
Bank Technology News
The article uses Starbucks to support this hypothesis, citing that the coffee chain has "the most successful mobile payment system to date" because it serves as not just a payment method, but also a loyalty card, which consumers would prefer not to ...
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Quick Tap opens up
Mobile Payments Today
U.K. wireless carrier Orange announced that it is now offering subscribers the Samsung Galaxy SIII smartphone as the first Android device to feature its Quick Tap mobile contactless payment technology. Quick Tap is Orange's tap-and-pay product offered ...
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Report: Walmart testing iPhone self-checkout app
Fiercemobilecontent
The app does not support mobile payment transactions: Customers simply scan products they wish to purchase and place each item in bags while they shop. Scan & Go transfers pricing information on each scanned item to the store's self-checkout kiosks, ...
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Mobile payments companies expect to benefit from frustration
QR Code Press
According to recent reports from PayPal, it has set its sights on stepping into at least 20 different major retailers for point of sale mobile payment pilot programs by the end of 2012. It has already made its way into 16 enormous chains, but this deal ...
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EU to Clear UK Mobile Operators' E-Wallet Plan
Banktech
... a person following the deal said on Tuesday. Vodafone, Telefonica's 02 and Everything Everywhere , which is owned by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, aim to compete with similar mobile payment services from Google, Apple and Facebook.
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HKMA's e-bill to bring easier cross-border yuan settlement
China Daily
In other initiatives to enhance other forms of diversified retail payment platforms, the HKMA also planned to carry out a consultancy study on the development of Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment infrastructure in the city. The HKMA will ...
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Apple's victory over Samsung may yet be a win for NFC
Mobile Payments Today (blog)
At the end of the day, every single Galaxy SIII sold creates another consumer with NFC mobile payment capabilities. Expect some Samsung partners such as Google to aid in this strategy. To quote Sun Tzu, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Apple's got ...
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Inside Wall Street: AmEx still strong as growth stock
MSN Money
The move is expected to strengthen customer loyalty for the convenience it offers. AmEx had already signed mobile-payment pacts with Verizon, Sprint, and Ticketmaster. As of June 2012, 3.7 million users have installed American Express mobile ...
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The Daily Start-Up: QBotix Uses Robots To Move Solar Panels
Wall Street Journal (blog)
With a new round of capital, Payleven, the Square clone from Germany's Rocket Internet incubator, is expanding its mobile payment service to multiple countries. Payleven provides a service, through a mobile application and a payment-card reader, that ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
EC approves UK m-commerce JV without conditions
Telecompaper (subscription)
The Commission's preliminary investigation had indicated potential competition concerns in the markets of mobile payment applications supply (so-called mobile wallets), mobile advertising and related data analytics services. Following an in-depth ...
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Lagging Growth, Tough Competition Has Renren (RENN) Looking to Mobile, e ...
StreetInsider.com (subscription) (blog)
But, Chen sees social gaming as cash-positive, with the segment becoming even more important as better mobile payment systems are unveilied. Additionally, Renren will be looking for more acquisitions to bolster growth. The focus will be on mobile and ...
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Gemalto reports first semester 2012 financial results
Channel EMEA
Olivier Piou, Chief Executive Officer, commented: "During this semester our teams delivered milestone projects in the digital identity and mobile payment sectors around the world. Gemalto achieved strong results that illustrate its transformation and ...
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Enhance Payments Security with Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments Today
At this time two primary approaches to fraud prevention are gaining traction: the virtual card number and tokenization. The current mainstream applications of these approaches each serve a different market. But ultimately the methodologies could be ...
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With An Extra $1.2M From Rally Capital, Pirq Adds Loyalty, Nat'l Rollout To ...
TechCrunch
With its Apple relationship still intact, Sun wouldn't say even a small speculative word to me about whether Apple's Passbook service — or any other initiative from the company — might be the "something else" that could end up being the killer mobile ...
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Apple's iPhone5 to launch 'in a week'
NEWS.com.au
"There is a range of technologies that Apple can't ignore, one of them being mobile payment technology and the other being 4G," he said. "They must ensure that they keep up with their competitors when it comes to 4G connectivity.th.th. it's just as big ...
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Blogs10 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Bulgarian Payment Institutions Sector Is Becoming More and More ...
By admin
New alternative online and mobile payment channels and solutions enter the market "The alternative payments market is growing rapidly and I'm expecting new payment institutions competing the bank services will start appearing" – said ...
ITOnews.eu
Mobile Payment News: Isis to Roll Out in September | Consumer ...
The mobile wallet payment system being promoted as a joint venture between the nation's three largest mobile phone service providers ......
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Donate to a Cause When You Pay with Your Smartphone | Selfish ...
By Joe Waters
Massachusetts-based SCVNGR said last week that its mobile payment service, LevelUp, will allow users to donate their loyalty credits to one of five charities. Loyalty credits are what you earn when you use Levelup at a participating business.
Selfish Giving
UK MNO's mobile wallet joint venture receives clearance from EU ...
By krowne
Vodafone, Telefonica's 02 and Everything Everywhere, operated as a joint venture between by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, aim to compete with similar mobile payment services from Google, Apple and Facebook. EU officials ...
Contactless Intelligence
The Retailer's Role in the Mobile Payment Revolution ...
By Matt Klassen
While the mobile payment revolution has stalled its deployment remains inevitable, and there are several things retailers should do to prepare for its arrival.
TheTelecomBlog.com
Skype Chooses MACH For Direct Operator BillingGoMo News
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MACH to enable new mobile payment option for Skype Credits globally Press relese September 5th 2012. MACH, the world leader in direct operator billing, announced today that it has been selected by Skype as the first vendor to deliver ...
GoMo News
5 Essentials for a Mobile-Friendly Website — A SPN Exclusive ...
By Derek Jansen
"Come 2014, there will at least one billion mobile payment users around world." These findings study undertaken IE Market research. Given these stratospheric statistics, it safe say that at least some your current website users visiting their ...
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources
Report: Walmart Testing iPhone Payment System
Just as mobile payment players like PayPal and Square begin to make headway with mainstream retailers, a new report from Reuters says that Walmart is testing a mobile payments iPhone app that would allow shoppers to pay for items ...
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Remains of the Day: You Can Now Automate Google Drive with IFTTT
By Craig Lloyd
IFTTT adds a Google Drive Channel, Wal-Mart is testing a new mobile payment system, Amazon adds more movies to its Prime Instant Video library, and CyanogenMod 10 will get new Quick Message feature.
Lifehacker
Samsung Galaxy S III Claimed the First Quick Tap Smartphone ...
By Mobilemaniac
Samsung Galaxy S III Claimed the First Quick Tap Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S III Claimed the The Quick Tap mobile payment facilities from Orange and Barclaycard would support the Samsung Galaxy S III. Samsung's Galaxy S III will be ...
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LevelUp Is First Mobile Payment App to Let You Give ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Mobile payment app LevelUp helps its users save money through incentives, loyalty programs and special offers. Now, the app has ...
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Orange brings Quick Tap mobile payment tool to Samsung Galaxy ...
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With New Funding, Germany's Payleven Sends Mobile Payment App
With a new round of capital, Payleven, the Square Inc . clone from Germany's Rocket Internet incubator, is expanding its mobile payment service to multiple ...
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