Thursday, September 20, 2012

42 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for Sept 20, 2012


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Apple snubs emerging mobile payment standard
Tech2
Apple snubs emerging mobile payment standard. 20 Sep, 2012, 10:28 am IST | General · Tweet. EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe often quotes a merchant saying NFC stands for "Not For Commerce" - and dismisses the prospects of Near Field ...
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UCS Technology Services delivering mobile payment technology, loyalty and ...
ITWeb
wiGroup has created wiCode, a mobile platform allowing retailers to integrate once to a platform (switch) and access multiple mobile payment providers and applications (including e-money, mobile vouchers, mobile coupons and mobile loyalty). With wiCode ...

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Canadian government addressing mobile payment regulation
Mobile Payments Today
Canadian government addressing mobile payment regulation. Tags: Regulatory Issues. September 19, 2012. Canadian regulators are taking small steps towards addressing issues related to mobile payments. Yesterday, Canada's Minister of State (Finance) ...

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GroupOn (NASDAQ:GRPN) Launches New Mobile Payment System
Oakshire Financial
Stocks were rising after news from U.S. housing came in positive, and an announcement that the stimulus program in Japan is expanding. The Dow Jones Industrial was up 40.19 points, the Nasdaq was up 2.90 points and the S&P 500 was up 3.74 points at ...
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Emerging Forms of Mobile Payment Technology
Midsize Insider
The technology underlying the retail payment industry has been evolving over the past few months with players like Google, MasterCard, and Visa partnering in an early attempt to corner the market. Despite these partnerships among established payment ...
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Midsize Insider
Mobile Wallets Yet to Replace Traditional Payment Systems in US Retail Outlets
Daily Deal Media
Many consumers are willing to adopt mobile payment options to reduce the time they have to spend in queues at the checkout counters. With the spread of smart phones and other mobile devices, consumers are ready to leave their wallets behind as they ...
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Daily Deal Media
PCI Releases Guidelines for Mobile Payment Acceptance
NACS Online
LOUISVILLE, KY –The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council released last week best practices guidance for mobile payment acceptance security, Mobile Payments Today reports. The guidelines are intended to offer mobile app developers and ...
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Making mobile money pay in Africa
BBC News
M-commerce, powered by smart mobile payment systems, would radically change the way business is done. Most of sub-Saharan Africa remains a rurally driven agri-economy, with farmers and businessmen having to rely on their local market days to do ...
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Merchant Data Systems Offers New Services and Advantages for Book Stores
Equities.com
Mobile payment options that make use of smartphone applications and the software that powers other mobile devices is rapidly becoming a popular alternative to conventional credit card processing services and options. POS integration of this technology ...
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Practical Psychology: Purchase Motivation Is Key Payment Preference ...
Vending Times
Plus, there's a new payment game in town: mobile payment. And while still in the minority, mobile payment systems that enable consumers to use their smartphones to make purchases are a growing trend that many major technology vendors are pushing ...
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New Mobile Payments App to Offer Enhanced Security and New Features
Daily Deal Media
One of the most robust mobile payment applications on the market to date, will be launched by mobile commerce company Atos Worldline. The new application offers enhanced security for mobile transactions and brings a wide range of features to consumers.
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Daily Deal Media
Oracle Leverages VeriFone's In-Store Mobile Payment System
American Banker (subscription)
Oracle Leverages VeriFone's In-Store Mobile Payment System. Print · Reprints · Email · Tweet. More companies are borrowing a page from Apple's playbook and offering a way for store employees to handle customer payments on the floor. In the latest ...
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PayDragon adds grocery shopping to its line-busting app
Mobile Payments Today
PayDragon, the app launched earlier this year to provide restaurants and food trucks a line-busting mobile payment option, is spreading its wings, so to speak. The company has announced its newest feature, Checkout, a shopping function that lets users ...
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Facebook Introduces New Shortcut For Mobile Payments
WebProNews
It also redirects buyers directly to the mobile payment dialog instead of showing the usual Credit Card and PayPal options. Check out the documentation here. Another change is coming to how Facebook handles platform dialogs across both the desktop and ...
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Retailers Stay Static on Mobile
Direct Marketing News
One third of those surveyed said mobile payment systems were not in their budgets for 2012 and 26% assigned them low priority. Traditional bank credit cards—in place at stores represented by 93% of respondents—still fill retailer's payment needs ...
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Visa to offer mobile payments with HDFC bank
The Hindu
The product is pitted against the interbank mobile payment service (IMPS) launched by the National Payments Corporation of India, which already has 50 banks as members. Mr. Nayak said even though it is starting up with only HDFC Bank, the company is in ...
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boxPAY Launches Mobile Carrier Payment Operations in 10 Additional Countries
PR Web (press release)
Mobile payment options are growing in popularity since they provide a quick, simple way for customers to make online purchases without registering at a website or providing credit card information. boxPAY, an innovative mobile payment provider that ...
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PR Web (press release)
Groupon adds Apple gadget payment service
AFP
The company is the brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and was named after the small, square magnetic-strip readers plugged into smartphones or iPads to allow people to swipe credit cards. The mobile payment services avoid the need to rent or ...
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What's the Deal with Groupon's Stock?: Greenberg
CNBC.com (blog)
CNBC Senior Stocks Commentator. Before jumping with joy over Groupon's announcement that it's getting into the mobile-payment business, beware: Wall Street is doing what it always does — trying to extrapolate a valuation out of something akin to thin air.
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'Accumulate' TECHM ; target Rs 930: PL
Myiris.com
The acquisition will help TECHM to expand its presence in Mobile Value Added Services, Mobile Money and Mobile Payment Solution. The deal is likely to be accounted from Q3FY13. TECHM has paid around 1.4x Trailing Revenue for the acquisition.
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TELEFÓNICA SA : A credit card in your smartphone: Telefónica cooperates with ...
4-traders
"Mobile payment represents a significant component of the ecosystem surrounding our financial services," says Michiel van Eldik, Managing Director of Wholesale & Partner Management at Telefónica Germany. "The collaboration with DG VERLAG is opening ...
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Platform-as-a-Service: PaySourcing Makes Financial as Well as Service ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
ON offers its customers the implementation of development projects - for example, processing of flight passenger data via on-the-fly registration, including system integration for interfacing with a variety of vendors, through to mobile payment ...
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Facebook testing mobile ads on third-party iOS, Android apps
Fiercemobilecontent
Feds seize Android app marketplaces Applanet, AppBucket in piracy sting · MasterCard delivers mobile payment SDK for Android, BlackBerry · ZTE to launch Firefox OS smartphones in shift away from Android · Google acquires Snapseed photo sharing app ...
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BANK OF CHINA LIMITED : Bank of China Launches Virtual Card Payment ...
4-traders
... continue to strengthen payment innovation, combine the development trends of Internet payment and mobile payment to continuously expand the services of queries and the scope of availability for virtual cards loaded on such channels as Internet ...
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Vantiv Webinar to Explore Exploding Mobile Payments Market
Melodika.net (press release)
... making mobile banking more compelling for consumers; How merchants are using mobile tablets as point-of-sale devices to increase sales and decrease costs; The functionality and value customers are seeking in mobile banking and mobile payment apps ...
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Sprint says Virgin Mobile users are safe from account hijacks
Computerworld New Zealand
... Battle lines drawn for Patents Bill Committee stage || 4 · Auckland Civil Defence launches iPhone app for emergency alerts || 11 · Business intelligence solutions a top priority for NZ businesses · Snapper launches mobile payment system in Auckland ...
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FirstBank launches mobile money platform, to raise branch network to 700
Mobile-Financial.com
MoneyGram, Gemalto to partner on international mobile money, transfer services · CMB, HTC reveal new mobile-payment product · Groupon Gambles Big on Mobile Payments · Fiserv Sees Growing Demand for Mobile Banking and Payments from Financial ...
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Mobile-Financial.com
StanChart offers new features for trade finance e-platform
The Asset
... and information needs across the working capital products for corporates and financial institutions. The Straight2Bank Mobile payment and trade authorization tool is available on iOS, with Blackberry and Android versions due to be released shortly.
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FTC to look at TSM joint venture in October
Telecompaper (subscription)
The joint venture would be established by five mobile operators and EasyCard to promote NFC-based mobile payment services. The Fair Trade Commission will look at the plan in October, The Digitimes writes citing Chunghwa Telecom president Lee ...
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HTC Launches Windows Phone 8X and 8S: Fast Camera, Beats Audio, Lots of ...
LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
An 1,800 mAH hour battery promises reasonable endurance while Beats audio with 2.5-volts of amplification offers loud, accurate music playback and NFC chip will allow the device to work with mobile payment systems and tap-to-share applications.
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LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
Visa targets smartphone payments in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post (subscription)
Mike Middlemas, Visa's regional director for mobile payment technology for the Asia-Pacific, said the company is in talks with banks to support smartphone payments. Banks with payWave-enabled cards include Hang Seng, Dah Sing, Aeon, DBS, Wing Lung ...
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Groupon Releases Mobile Payment App and Reader - Macgasm
By Andrew Kunesh
Accepting payments via tablets and smartphones is becoming the norm as of recently.
Macgasm
Groupon Launches Mobile Payment Service - IPO - eWallstreeter
Groupon Launches Mobile Payment Service. From: InvestorPlaceIPO Playbook - 2:47pm - September 19, 2012. Groupon stock soared Wednesday as it announced the launch of a new mobile payments service, guaranteeing it will have ...
eWallstreeter
Groupon launches its own Square-like payment service for ...
By T.C. Sottek
... give Groupon discounts to customers. We'll have to wait see if yet-another mobile payment system can take hold -- as it stands, Groupon has some catching up to do. Source Groupon; Related Items groupon mobile payment payment Square ...
The Verge - All Posts
Payair Mobile Payment | Mixing Digital
By Charlie
Payair Mobile Payment. September 19th, 2012 | Uncategorized | Charlie | No Comments. The Swedish firm Payair have now started to roll out it's payments solution for mobile in Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, this is part of a ...
Mixing Digital
New Design and Faster Checkout for Online Mobile Payments ...
By Piret Saag
With the previous version of our checkout flow, an average first-time online mobile payment took a user around 20 seconds to complete from the time he pressed "Pay by Mobile", entered his phone number and waited for payment confirmation.
Fortumoblog
Amazon, PayPal Lead in Consumer Confidence - CreditDonkey
By mike@creditdonkey.com (Mike Foster)
In recent years, Amazon has leveraged its brand into tablet and mobile phone spaces, with the Kindle Fire and Amazon Wireless offerings, but it has also quietly rolled out a mobile payment service to allow partner merchants a secure payment ...
CreditDonkey
Groupon Goes After Square in Mobile Payments - 24/7 Wall St.
By Administrator
The move is to compete with Square, which just received a valuation of more than $3 billion, and other mobile payment processing firms. The launch is called GrouponPayments for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The aim is to compete on price ...
24/7 Wall St.
Comsec Blog on Information Security: PCI Council releases Security ...
By Comsec Consulting
Fresh from the oven -- "PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines" – released last week, is the first outcome of the PCI council "Mobile taskforce" which was established late last year, in order to handle the rapidly evolving and ...
Comsec Blog on Information Security
Groupon Starts Dealing With Mobile Payments | Wall St. Cheat Sheet
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
Ebay's (NASDAQ:EBAY) PayPal unit also offers a mobile payment solution via a plug-in card reader. Although there is already heavy competition, investors are pleased with Groupon's latest plan to earn additional revenue. Shares of the ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
The iPhone 5 Doesn't Have NFC — So What? - Carey Kolaja ...
By Carey Kolaja
Bluetooth, RFID, even an audio signal could initiate a mobile payment from your phone — and yes, NFC could also do this. What most people don't realize is that NFC is not a one-size-fits-all technology. It has different modes that do different ...
AllThingsD



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