Thursday, October 18, 2012

42 Breaking "Mobile Payment" News Stories for Oct 18th

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Isis, yet another mobile-payment outfit, to launch trials Oct. 22
CNET
Isis is an effort by Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA to create a standard platform that would allow consumers to pay for goods and services with their smartphones. It's just one of several mobile payment initiatives -- one of the most notable ...
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Clear2Pay and TestPlant unveil unique solution enabling full automated Mobile ...
Equities.com
Brussels and London -- Clear2Pay, the international technology provider of next generation payment solutions, and TestPlant , international provider of test solutions, today jointly announce The Mobile Payment App Test Solution, facilitating ...
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Snap Secure Mobile and Personal Security App Enters Italian Market through a ...
Broadcast Newsroom
Snap Secure Mobile and Personal Security App Enters Italian Market through a Partnership with Cashlog, Buongiorno's Mobile Payment Solution. Cashlog Service Allows Consumers to be Billed Directly via Their Carrier Phone Bill. October 18, 2012 -- ...
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Move Over, Twilio: AT&T Integrates Speech, Messaging And Payment APIs Into ...
TechCrunch
... AT&T today became the latest to offer APIs to developers, in a bid to drive more revenue from its mobile network: it is partnering with mobile app developer platform Appcelerator to offer APIs for speech, mobile messaging and mobile payment ...
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Isis mobile payment system announces Oct. 22 launch
GigaOM
Isis, the joint venture mobile payment system from Verizon, AT&Tand T-Mobile, is now officially set to launch on Oct. 22 after missing its planned summer rollout. An Isis representative said in an email that the launch will commence in Austin, Texas ...
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GigaOM
Carriers to Debut Mobile-Payments Service Isis Next Week
Wall Street Journal
While supporters of the technology say mobile-payment services could benefit consumers and merchants through more targeted marketing, some analysts are skeptical the services will gain widespread adoption in the U.S. because paying with existing ...
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Apple iPhone Passbook: The Future of Mobile Payments?
CIO
CIO — Mobile payment has been hailed as the next great frontier for smartphones, and Apple has bet a chunk of the iPhone's future on its new Passbook app—a precursor to the mobile wallet. At least this is the thinking from J Schwan, CEO and founder ...
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CIO
Ex-Nokia Money Team Launches iKaaz Tap & Pay Mobile Payments Platform for ...
Sacramento Bee
iKaaz, a Seattle-based mobile payments solution provider, launched its new iKaaz mobile payment platform for enterprises. The iKaaz platform broadly caters to two major segments. The iKaaz Consumer Wallet for Enterprises allows enterprises including ...
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Asia growing dominant in mobile innovation
ZDNet
One example of "true innovation", which is not a mere rehash of existing technology, is the SIM-based mobile payment service offered by Malaysian startup Tootpay, noted Kellerman. The company enables any mobile handset to make financial transactions ...
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Proximity Mobile Payments Set to Explode in US
The FINANCIAL
In the near term, light users experimenting with low-dollar purchases will dominate the mobile payment audience; a smaller segment of heavy users who habitually buy their daily coffee, for example, with a mobile payment system will increase over the ...
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The Apple Shopper Arrested For Using The Chain's Mobile App Improperly Is ...
StorefrontBacktalk
News of this arrest can seriously reduce consumer willingness to try mobile payment at any retailer. Certainly the consumers we've mentioned this situation to had the reaction, "Well, I think I'll be whipping out Mr. MasterCard for any of my Apple ...
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Access Idaho's Innovative On-The-Go Mobile App Receives National ...
DailyFinance
Republic's Center for Digital Government recently named Idaho's new Android-based mobile payment application, On-The-Go, as one of nation's best government-to-citizen solutions in its 2012 Best of the Web Digital Government Achievement Awards.
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Isis' mobile wallet trial launch set for Oct. 22
TechRadar UK
Isis is less than a week away from launching its mobile payment service in test cities Salt Lake City, Utah and Austin, Texas, according to a report Wednesday. Jaymee Johnson, Isis' head of marketing, sent an email to The Verge confirming Oct. 22 as ...
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Braintree adds another $35M in funding
Mobile Payments Today
Chicago-based payment provider Braintree is adding to its already impressive bank account through a Series B round of funding. The company announced it has raised an additional $35 million with this round, bringing its total to $70 million. The round ...
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Braintree raises $35M Chicago Business Journal
Bizjournals.com
With this investment, Chicago-based Braintree, an online and mobile payment solutions company, has raised $70 million since its founding in 2007. It plans to use the new funding to bring to market new payment capabilities and for expansion. Braintree ...
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Isis Mobile Wallet App is Available – For a Few
WebProNews
Though the iPhone 5 did not include NFC capabilities as expected, the mobile payment investments were already in place and multiple services (including one backed by Walmart and Target) will debut over the next year. T-Mobile's parent company, ...
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Big Three Mobile Joint Venture Sheds Zoompass
Techvibes (blog)
EnStream is working to bring transformational mobile payment solutions to market. We are developing user-friendly mobile services that will make it easier for consumers to perform mobile transactions. The "always with you" nature of the mobile phone ...
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Square Ends NYC Taxi Pilot Program Early
PC Magazine
Square, the mobile payment company from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has abruptly pulled out of a pilot program to bring its technology to New York City cabs. In an Oct. 12 letter to the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC),obtained by the New ...
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ISIS to launch in Austin and Salt Lake City on October 22nd
Phandroid.com
Long-in-gestation mobile payment platform ISIS will officially launch on October 22nd in Austin and salt Lake City, a company spokesperson confirmed to Phandroid today. ISIS is a major payment system backed by the majority of major US wireless ...
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Lucky Strike and Tabbedout make bowling even less strenuous
Mobile Payments Today
Use cases for mobile payments have ranged from transit to parking to buying a cup of coffee, but Tabbedout has a new one and it's bordering on genius: bowling. Lucky Strike, a chain of upscale bowling alleys (no, that's not oxymoronic), has partnered ...
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eBay sales surge 16% in Q3
InternetRetailer.com
EBay expects to handle more than $10 billion in mobile payment volume in 2012, he told investors in a quarterly earnings conference call this afternoon, repeating a projection the company had made previously. Sellers are listing more than 2 million ...
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Business Wire and CARTES 2012 Consolidate Their Media Partnership
MarketWatch (press release)
"Recent developments in mobile payment and cloud security mean we are faced with major technological, economic and social challenges, and communication are also partly linked to these developments. Business Wire is therefore proud once more to be in ...
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PayPal is a dinosaur with smart competitors–and here's why it's wildly ...
Quartz
Developers think that PayPal's tools are too complicated, and the primary value proposition of online and mobile payment startups like Braintree, Stripe and WePay seems to be that they're like PayPal, only significantly easier to use. Merchants have ...
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'Cashless society creates good stock picks', Jupiter
FT Adviser
The manager of the Jupiter Financial Opportunities Fund said due to the rise in credit card use, and new mobile payment technology, cash is no longer seen as king. Mr de Blonay said that companies should provide the technology to enable the development ...
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FT Adviser
Migros Bank to implement KOBIL's AST to mitigate e-banking challenges
Banking Business Review
Suitable for online banking, including mobile payment, secure messaging, and mobile-commerce services, the new technology is compatible with all platforms and types of devices, claims the solution provider. The bank said that introduction of ...
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New Enterprise Associates opens Chicago office, makes investment
Bizjournals.com
NEA, which says it has been investing in Chicago businesses for more than 25 years, led a $35 million investment in online and mobile payment company Braintree Payment Solutions LLC. Braintree will use the capital to expand and hire more programmers ...
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ISIS confirms October 22nd launch in Salt Lake City and Austin
The Verge
We heard a few days ago that ISIS was finally ready to launch its mobile payment service on October 22nd, and now we can confirm that date is indeed correct. Jaymee Johnson, head of marketing at ISIS, just emailed The Verge the following statement ...
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EBay income up 22 percent
CBS News
Why Groupon has joined the mobile payment hunt · PayPal to offer in-store payments through Discover · HP battered by past decisions and the future of its industry. Adjusted earnings were 55 cents per share in the latest quarter, slightly ahead of Wall ...
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Guest post: Fulfilling Myanmar's economic promise
Financial Times (blog)
The obvious answer is mobile payments, which have the potential to reach every citizen. But, according to the World Bank, of the 96 mobile payment schemes live in emerging markets around the world in 2011, just six had 200,000 active users or more.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 vs. Motorola Droid RAZR HD
Gotta Be Mobile
However, while the non-Verizon versions of the Galaxy Note 2 will likely be able to work in conjunction with Google Wallet for mobile payments, the Droids will not and instead will likely have to wait for ISIS, a competing mobile payment solution. As ...
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The GoNow eWallet Card: an All-in-One Credit, Debit, Loyalty and Gift Card ...
PR Web (press release)
Digital Life Technologies' GoNow eWallet "super smart" card offers an answer to the mobile payment adoption problem because it breaks through every barrier that's slowed eWallet adoption in the US market. The GoNow eWallet card, a reprogrammable ...
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PR Web (press release)
Digital happenings this week from Maxus, Rocket Fuel, GE, Mastercard and more
Campaign Asia-Pacific
Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has partnered with Mastercard to expand its contactless payment options for Japanese consumers worldwide, which will enable consumers using iDTM mobile payment to make contactless payments while traveling ...
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VIBE™ Mobile Wallet Webinar Free Webinar on October 25: VIBE Mobile ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
Anyone interested can register at: http://corporate.freedompay.com/vibewebinar. It will be a complete demonstration of the VIBE platform including mobile payment and incentive technologies that integrate with live POS systems [i.e.: MICROS] ultimately ...
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China's Digital Tomorrow
Tech in Asia
Da Ge kindly treats everyone and pays directly through a mobile payment app that links wirelessly with the table. The app also offers suggestions of places and products he might be interested in based on his previous mobile purchase. 9:30 PM: Da Ge ...
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Tech in Asia
PayNearMe now lets renters pay in cash online
VatorNews
The cash payment solution targets the unbanked, but Danny points out that others are using it too. Entrepreneur interview by Faith Merino. 5961 · Danny Shader on cash-based mobile payments · How do you create a mobile payment solution that uses cash?
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DecisionPoint Systems Custom Development Team Wins Award for Outstanding ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The two companies worked together to complete an app for T.G.I. Friday's that includes menu, store hours, locations, mobile payment and rewards program integration. "We are gratified to receive industry recognition for the work done by our Tulsa team ...
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Dish TV's subscriber base increases
MediaMughals
In a first within the television distribution industry, Dish TV recently launched recharge option through Interbank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS) through which the subscriber can recharge his Dish TV account securely and conveniently through an instant ...
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Blogs2 new results for "Mobile Payment"
ISIS Launching October 22 to Take On Google Wallet
By Chuong Nguyen
The mobile payment service formed by a coalition of carriers including AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless will be setting its sights on tackling rival mobile wallet service Google Wallet. Like Google Wallet, ISIS will allow users ...
Gotta Be Mobile
BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: OCT 17 - Business Insider
By Heather Leonard
Mobile payment technology is providing businesses of all shapes and sizes with new payment-acceptance solutions that capitalize on mobile commerce to attract new business, cultivate loyalty with existing customers and grow revenues.
Business Insider

Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
android - NFC Mobile Payment And Carriers - Stack Overflow
I would like to know if mobile carriers play any role in NFC moile payment ... I do not think that this kind of question does belong to stackoverflow. 1. Its NOT a ...
stackoverflow.com/questions/.../nfc-mobile-payment-and-carri...
Comparing the most popular mobile payment systems
Whether selling services or products at a conference, or in a traditional store, there are endless reasons to add mobile payments as an option for your ...
agbeat.com/.../comparing-the-most-popular-mobile-payment-s...
Clear2Pay and TestPlant team on mobile payment app testing tool
Clear2Pay and TestPlant team on mobile payment app testing tool. Clear2Pay, the international technology provider of next generation payment solutions, and ...
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