Friday, October 5, 2012

33 Mobile Payment" News Stories for October 5th

ePaymentNews has 33 news stories for "Mobile Payment"
Starbucks brews up mobile payment changes, adds digital tipping
Los Angeles Times
Beginning in early November, Starbucks' roughly 7,000 U.S. stores will also accept payments through Square, a mobile payment start-up founded by Jack Dorsey, who also founded Twitter. Square users will show Starbucks cashiers a digital bar code on ...
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Mobile Payments: A New Frontier for Criminals
Businessweek
The expectation is that fraud will account for 1.5 percent of all mobile payment transactions in four to five years, says Avivah Litan, an analyst at tech researcher Gartner (IT). "There's huge concern," says Mike Urban, director of financial crime ...
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Bet365 Offers Skrill 1-Tap Mobile Payment Method
Gambling Kingz
Bet365 Offers Skrill 1-Tap Mobile Payment Method. by Renee Israel. New Payment Method on Bet365 Platform. Bet365, one of the largest and most reputable online gambling groups in the world, has introduced a new payment method called Skrill 1-Tap for ...
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Gambling Kingz
Turkcell Launches Smart Mobile Wallet
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... across the Middle East and North Africa. Other providers can either integrate into the Turkcell service, he said, or can purchase it outright. The service was developed in house by Turkcell Teknoloji, the company's R&D arm. mobile payment ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Smaller chains need mobile, too
QSRweb.com
With big chains like Starbucks, Subway and Dunkin Donuts testing mobile payment systems, it makes sense that other restaurant operators are looking into it as well. Take sweetgreen, for example. The Washington D.C.-based chain with about 15 units has ...
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Mobile growth causing buzz
China Daily
She and assistants visited several US retailers and downloaded mobile-payment apps to see if they would work. "You can imagine how big the market would be if Chinese mobile users got used to paying for their shopping through their phones instead of ...
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Starbucks to allow 'digital tipping' via mobile phone
SiliconValley.com
The Seattle-based coffee company says a digital tip function will be added to its mobile payment application starting next summer. A similar option will also be available on Square, a new payment app that Starbucks customers will be able to use ...
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Starbucks taking Square Wallet payments next month
CNET
The coffeehouse giant today said that customers will be able to use Square's mobile payment system in about 7,000 U.S. stores starting in early November. Customers will also be able to digitally tip their baristas using Square and Starbucks' existing ...
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Mobile money for public transport: EcoCash in the Kombi
Technology Zimbabwe
Apparently Econet is already trialing its mobile payment service in Kombis (local Zim colloquial for public transport minibus). The friend, a student at the University of Zimbabwe says he started noticing the development yesterday. In his own words ...
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Technology Zimbabwe
MN banks build mobile platforms
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
Niti Badarinath, U.S. Bancorp's head of digital strategy and mobile banking, says the next frontier is mobile payment. Jim Hammerand: Staff reporter- Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: Email | Twitter | Facebook. It's go mobile or go home for ...
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MOL Global targets payment volume at RM3b by end-2013
The Star Online
He said the collaboration would further strengthen the companies' objectives to provide safe and secure mobile payment transactions for corporations and individuals to accept credit cards through mobile phones by swiping the card on the MOLCube card ...
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MintChip Mobile Currency App Design Challenge Winners Announced
Blackberry Cool
Judged by a stacked panel of mobile payment industry experts, the app design competition aims to come up with some good apps and use cases for mobile currency on phones. MintChip could be the next step in the evolution of currency, bringing all of the ...
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Blackberry Cool
Consumers Yet to Take to Mobile Wallets
Daily Deal Media
The conclusion is that not many consumers have incorporated a mobile payment system in their smart phones. This could be because consumers and retailers have yet to sort out and understand the various technologies being offered. Additionally, many ...
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Daily Deal Media
When life hands you Lemon, make a mobile wallet
Mobile Payments Today
Lemon is back in the news. The mobile wallet provider has launched its new Lemon Platform for Publishers, called Lemonade. Additionally, the company is opening its digital Smarter Wallet ecosystem to third-party developers. Lemonade is Lemon's mobile ...
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Payleven mixes up the mobile payments space
Mobile Entertainment
Announced at Apps World in London, Payleven has unveiled a new mobile payment service that uses Chip & PIN to accept parents across Europe from all major credit and debit cards. In Europe, Visa only allows mobile payments with Chip & PIN ...
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Mobile Entertainment
Telecom Stock Outlook - Oct. 2012 - Industry Outlook
NASDAQ
In addition, the emergence of mobile broadband technology has created several new service areas, which potentially offers huge growth potential. This includes IPTV, collaboration and cloud computing, videoconferencing and mobile payment, to name a few.
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Axxess Payments Perfects Merchant Account Customer Service
MarketWatch (press release)
With their newly introduced mobile payments processing innovation, customer service personnel are being trained, and brought in, to handle the growing demand of mobile payment processing users who may not clearly understand the many intricacies of this ...
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Starbucks sees 1000 new US stores in next five years; will accept mobile ...
Chain Store Age
The chain also said it will enable digital tipping at its U.S. company-operated stores through both the Square and Starbucks mobile payment applications in the summer of 2013. Customers will also be able to use the Square directory to find more than 7 ...
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Startups racing to offer European chip-and-PIN mobile payments
Techworld.com
Without chip-and-PIN capabilities, a mobile payment terminal in the UK can only accept the 15% of transactions that rely on either the magnetic stripe or a combination of a chip readout and a signature (chip-and-sign) for authentication, said Otero ...
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Techworld.com
Palm Sized Payment Power Introduced By Axxess Payments
Melodika.net (press release)
With an expected 250% increase in mobile payment processing by 2014, Axxess Payments knew jumping onboard with low pricing technology that spans across Blackberry, iTunes and Android networks would certainly increase their already large customer ...
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Kenya's battle to switch off fake phones
BBC News
The CCK says the move is to protect consumers from substandard phones, safeguard mobile payment systems and prevent crime. "They've become a menace to consumers from both the safety and security perspective," CCK head Francis Wangusi told the ...
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BBC News
Cognizant, Monitise to offer FIs new global mobile money platform
Mobile Payments Today
A new "global alliance" between global IT consulting company Cognizant and Monitise, a mobile money provider, will target financial institutions with a complete mobile money platform, allowing them to offer new mobile banking, payments, and commerce ...
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First Look: Micros Deploys ISIS's Mobile Platform in New Jersey
American Banker (subscription)
MicrosSystems of Columbia, Md. is deploying the SmartTap technology throughout the Aramark restaurants. The point of sale system maker has plans to further deploy ISIS throughout the chain, according to MobileCommerceDaily. ISIS's mobile payment ...
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NITEL Workers Protest Non-Payment Of 10 Months Salary Arrears
Leadership Newspapers
TELCOS Cannot Lead Mobile Payment Schemes In Nigeria – Stakeholders · Mazda CX-5: Innovation Ahead Of Time · Sony Launches Play Station Console In Japan · World Bank-sponsored ICT Programme Trains 1,000 Graduates · FG Rolls Out New Right ...
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South African bank mobilising merchant services
Developing Telecoms (press release)
South Africa's First National Bank is planning to introduce a mobile payment device that will complement its merchant services. The device is being readied following an agreement between the bank and mobile payments firm mPowa. Using a free mobile ...
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Apple planning payments using fingerprint recognition?
Hindustan Times
... experts had predicted that the latest incarnation of the iPhone would support some form of Near Field Communication (NFC) to keep pace with competitors such as Google who is currently at the forefront of the virtual wallet and mobile payment industry.
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Hindustan Times
Street Fight Daily: Local Online Ad Rev to Jump 30%, Facebook Reviews
Street Fight
Square unfurled its deal with Starbucks that will put Square's small mobile-payment devices in 7,000 of the coffee makers' USA storefronts. Next month, customers will be able to purchase coffee with Square's Wallet app, the companies say. Mobile ...
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Street Fight
Buzz Stocks: Zynga, Gannett, Sprint, and Morgan Stanley
Schaeffers Research (blog)
Good news for Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) baristas: a digital tip function is coming to the coffee king's mobile payment system beginning next summer. In other SBUX news, the company is linking up with Square, providing another way for ...
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New York - Starbucks To Allow 'Digital Tipping' Via Mobile Phone ...
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The Seattle-based coffee company says a digital tip function will be added to its mobile payment application starting next summer. A similar option will also be available on Square, a new payment app that Starbucks customers will be able to ...
Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish: What's News?)
Starbucks to accept mobile pay technology - Business - The ...
Beginning in early November, Starbucks customers will be able to pay for their cup of coffee at 7000 U.S. corporate-run stores using mobile-payment technology developed by San Francisco startup Square. In other news:
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Gemalto acquires mobile payment platform from Ericsson
Gemalto acquires mobile payment platform from Ericsson. Amsterdam, Oct 1, 2012 - Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital ...
www.gemalto.com/php/pr_view.php?id=1381
Starbucks Newsroom: Starbucks Advances Mobile Payment ...
Starbucks Advances Mobile Payment Experience, Extends Starbucks Reserve® Coffee Program and Invests in Talent Development at 2012 Global Leadership ...
news.starbucks.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=704
IMPS Mobile Payment for USA Visa Fee in India
Create Profile Follow the steps 1 through 10 as mentioned in scheduling USA visa appointment. After that, on the 'Payment Confirmation Screen', click on the ...
www.immihelp.com/.../imps-payment-by-mobile-phone.html



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