Monday, August 20, 2012

Barclays offers 1st international mobile phone transfers

News6 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
NFC and the Trough of Disillusionment
ReadWriteWeb
One such technology, near field communications (NFC), has promised easy mobile payments for the last few years. NFC so far has been more hype rather than reality. According to research firm Gartner, the hype for NFC may soon be coming to an end.
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Report: McDonald's, PayPal Testing Mobile Payments
PC Magazine
... when compared to Asia. Although mobile payments technology seems like a cool bit of science fiction-style convenience, a recent report claimed that only 8 percent of U.K. McDonald's customers even knew they had the ability to pay using NFC technology.
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Mobile commerce security a top issue in Singapore
QR Code Press
Gemalto, one of the companies forming the consortium, claims that there are no inherent security dangers that exist in NFC technology. NFC is, largely, a passive technology, used only to facilitate mobile payments through the transmission of digital ...
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Barclays offers 1st international mobile phone transfersGoMo NewsThe mobile payments sector is hotting up very fast indeed. But Barclays Bank appears to have a strong grasp of what the market wants. That's the opposite to industry pundits who predict m-payments will only happen if everyone has an NFC enabled handset.See all stories on this topic »
Mobile commerce may soon blend with social networks
QR Code Press
Though integrating social networks into a mobile commerce scheme may make mobile payments more widely available to consumers, mobile commerce may not find the success it needs until the availability of NFC-enabled mobile devices increases. Related ...
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Protecting Your Brand in a Mobile Payments Ecosystem
Credit Union Times
In an era of almost daily news about alternate and mobile payment solutions in our industry, credit union executives are right to be concerned – not only about the future of their business, but also of the potential dilution of their brand as new ...
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27 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for August 20th, 2012

News18 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Retail chains break into mobile payment app technology
Sun-Sentinel
Some of the largest store chains, like Publix, Target and Walmart, have come together to form a new company that will offer shoppers a new digital-age way experience of paying at the register. Merchant Customer Exchange will exist as a mobile app and ...
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PayPal, McDonald's talk mobile payment
Columbus Dispatch
SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal is in the early stages of what might be a blockbuster deal with McDonald's Corp. McDonald's, the world's biggest hamburger chain, is testing a mobile payment service featuring PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France. Earlier ...
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Smartphone payment space packed with competition
Washington Post
A host of new options are turning up in shops and restaurants, and more are on the way — part of a fledging industry known as "mobile payment" that seeks to take advantage of the growing adoption of smartphones, tablets and wireless connections.
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Dunkin' Donuts launches mobile app for payment of Dunkin' products (USA)
Wireless Federation
... Mobile App, Mobile Money, USA · Tagged with Android Smartphones, App Store, App's mGift feature, Dunkin' Brands CEO and Dunkin' Donuts President, Dunkin' Donuts, Google Play store, iPhone, iPod touch, John Costello, mobile app, Mobile payment, ...
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SMSZombie wraps self in nudie pics, slips into 500000 Android devices
Register
SMSZombie is designed to exploit security shortcomings in the mobile payment system used by China Mobile to generate unauthorised payments. The malware also steals bank card numbers and money transfer receipt information, mobile security firm ...
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Web - The Forgotten Channel?
Finextra
In this context, I find it odd that many banks and nonbanking financial service providers are virtually treating the web as a non-existent channel while communicating the value proposition of their phone, mobile banking and mobile payment services. Let ...
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Finextra
Punchey introduces new payments platform for SMBs
Computer Business Review
Mobile payment firm Punchey has unveiled a new payments platform for small and mid-sized businesses to securely conduct transactions, whether through a mobile device, on the Web or at the store counter. The new platform will enable local merchants to ...
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CreditCall unveils CardEase Mobile payment acceptance app
Telecompaper (subscription)
UK card-not-present, e-commerce and contactless payment transactions processor CreditCall is making its mobile Chip and PIN card acceptance service for smartphones and tablets available to partners and developers worldwide. CreditCall has developed ...
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VeriFone starts showing how SAIL's openness helps it compete
GigaOM
When VeriFone launched SAIL, its Square rival back in May, it touted the openness of the platform, which can evolve as developers and businesses connect the base mobile payment product to other features and services from third-party providers. Now, it ...
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GigaOM
Carphone Warehouse to help all smartphone customers register for mobile ...
InternetRetailing.net
Carphone Warehouse is a large stakeholder in Mobile Money Network and has spent years developing this mobile payment solution, which seeks to integrate as many ways as possible to initiate payment in any channel through mobile devices. MMN retail ...
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RBA wants payment system reform
Sydney Morning Herald
The race for mobile payment by the banks is also adding extra complexity to the payment system. While the cost of choosing "credit" is popular, it typically brings a higher cost for merchants that provide the terminal, raising competition issues in the ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Retailers' wallet-less plans prompt concerns
MarketWatch
Create Portfolio or Cancel Already have a portfolio? Log In. Some big retailers are joining forces to develop their own mobile payment app, but Ken Wisnefski, CEO of WebiMax, voices some concerns about their plans. He joins Alisa Parenti in Take on Tech.
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Nordstrom iPad App to Make Mobile Shopping Faster, Easier
Daily Deal Media
... their Behavior · Australian SMEs Successfully Target Local Customers Online · NetEase Misses Revenue Number – Wall Street Whacks World of Warcraft, Shares Tank 17% in Two Days · McDonald's to test PayPal Mobile Payment System in France: Report ...
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Daily Deal Media
Mobile payments poised for lift-off
Hydrapinion
... deal gives Square an immediate critical mass as well as a high-profile way to promote their service. It's logical that, once things are up and running, other retailers will be keen to join the trend. Have you been holding back on using mobile ...
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High Quality Merchant Services Available To Variety Stores
Equities.com
If a business wants to accept mobile payment options, for instance, it will need something capable of using HTML 5. It can get very confusing, and it requires a business owner to look very carefully over what services their providers can offer and what ...
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Greek bailout tension sets up tough week for markets -- Big health insurance ...
Politico
MOBILE PAYMENT: WaPo's Mohana Ravindranath: "A host of new options are turning up in shops and restaurants, and more are on the way — part of a fledging industry known as "mobile payment" that seeks to take advantage of the growing adoption of ...
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Cashless policy: Insurers key in with pr...
BusinessDay
These include, retail insurance savings, third party products from online product application to an online management of policy accounts by customers as well as online payments using Debit Cards, Scratch Cards, POS and Mobile Payment Operators.
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Startup Ridefind Wants to Redefine Carpooling in the Phillipines
Tech in Asia
When asked what future plans they have: Safety is the biggest question surrounding every ridesharing service out there. Mobile payment system, location verification, and sponsored road trips are some ideas for the future. Our goal is not only to make ...
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Tech in Asia

Blogs7 new results for "Mobile Payment"
The Monetization Rush For Mobile Payment Apps - blog*spot
By Akeem C
As retailers rush to adopt mobile-first strategies, we'll likely see the release of more mobile payment apps to cut down on time shoppers spend waiting in line at their stores, much like the one launched by Carphone Warehouse last week.
Mocean Mobile Blog
Retail chains break into mobile payment app technology
By Justine Griffin
Some of the largest store chains, like Publix, Target and Walmart, have come together to form a new company that will offer shoppers a new digital-age way experience of paying at the register. Merchant Customer Exchange will exist as a ...
Shop-O-Matic | Sun Sentinel blogs
McDonald's tests PayPal payments in mobile app trial — TalkVietnam
By vir
PayPal is facing increasing competition in the mobile payment space for retailers: Square recently signed a landmark deal with Starbucks, whereby the mobile payments start-up will process credit and debit card transactions at the coffee ...
TalkVietnam
Announcing Village Capital Nairobi | Village Capital
By admin
Kytabu is producing a $35 reading tablet for low-income schools across Kenya, enabling payments of the tablet through a "micro-lease" mobile payment and affordable content through a subscription service. They have tested the prototype ...
Village CapitalVillage Capital | We ...
New Mobile Commerce Findings from ABI Research and Forrester ...
By Staff Writer
35 million were shipped last year, though uptake of the NFC contactless mobile payment method has been slow and limited to certain networks and certain credit cards and banks within the UK. However they're reporting three to five years ...
Transaction Age | Payments Industry...
Orange Money Big Success In Emerging Markets - MobiAD
By admin
″This exponential growth attests to the strong consumer appetite for this innovative, simple and practical mobile payment service in countries where the population has limited access to bank accounts but is widely equipped with mobile ...
MobiAD
PayPal Enters the Race for Offline Payments at - Techie Buzz
By Chinmoy Kanjilal
PayPal is conducting a test with offline mobile payment at McDonald's, and wants to compete with Square in the mobile payment market after acquiring Card.io.
Techie Buzz

Web2 new results for "Mobile Payment"
Starbucks and Square to Team Up - NYTimes.com
"But if a big merchant jumping into some mobile payment solution signals to other ... Starbucks has offered its own mobile payment app since last year and ...
www.nytimes.com/.../starbucks-and-square-to-team-up.html/
Retailers seek to cash in on mobile-payment trend - wsbt.com
Retailers and restaurants team up to wrest control of the fast-emerging pay-by- smartphone industry from technology firms, in a new venture called MCX.
www.wsbt.com/.../la-fi-google-mobile-payments-20120816,0,...



Mobile Payments' Problem: Too Many Options

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
Mobile Payments' Problem: Too Many Options
Investorplace.com
ISIS is the mobile wallet brainchild of three telecom giants: AT&T (NYSE:T), T-Mobile and Verizon (NYSE:VZ). NFC-capable smartphones are used to pay at a variety of retailers. Like many cellular upgrades, ISIS is being rolled out by city, not by retail ...
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McDonald's Begins Testing PayPal Payments

News2 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
McDonald's Begins Testing PayPal Payments
The Inquisitr
As Near Field Communications (NFC) mobile payment technology continues to improve and more users gravitate away from traditional forms of cash and even credit cards there is a good chance we will see many more mobile payment platforms both ...
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The Inquisitr
Best Buy, Walmart Team to Form Google Wallet Competitor
Tom's Hardware Guide
The list is seemingly slim because the cost of NFC technology has become reasonable to the point that manufacturers are just now beginning to integrate the tech into their designs. With Google's alliance with MasterCard slowly gaining traction, it's ...
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PayPal Tests Mobile Payment System at McDonald's

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
PayPal Tests Mobile Payment System at McDonald's
Mobile & Apps
The PayPal software enables users to conduct a transaction without relying on NFC chips. Instead, the company connects a users' PayPal account to his/her mobile phone number and a PIN code. The technology can be used to make payments at any ...
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Mobile & Apps



Paypal Mobile Payment to McDonald's will soon be Possible


ePaymentNews
McDonalds
McDonalds (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)
Paypal Mobile Payment to McDonald's will soon be Possible
The Droid Guy
As online marketing strategies are blooming in the past five years, Paypal is taking another huge step in mobile payments. McDonald's, the world's largest hamburger food chain, has partnered with PayPal in conducting a series of tests on receiving ...

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5 Ways to Pay for Dinner With Your Phone
Mashable
Mobile payment transactions are predicted to reach $1.3 trillion per year by 2017, and the restaurant industry appears ripe to scarf down a hefty chunk of that money flying around electronically. But while news about the mobile payments space has ...

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PayPal Is Testing Out Mobile Payment at McDonald's Restaurants
Gizmodo UK
Just as it was announced last week that Square will become the mobile payment platform for Starbucks going forward, PayPal now has revealed it too has designs on the fastfood/payment game—its conquest: McDonalds. Currently 30 different McDonald's ...
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PayPal is Testing Mobile Payments at French McDonald's
Complex.com (blog)
Paypal, the online payment service owned by eBay, has begun testing its mobile payment service in McDonald's restaurants in France, Reuters is reporting. The test allows customers to order food using a McDonald's mobile app and paying for the items ...
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Unwire Teams up with Nexperts to Offer Mobile Wallet in Europe
Daily Deal Media
By combining their technologies and solutions, the two companies will be able to come up with an improved product that offers a multi-platform mobile payment solution that will help businesses retain customers. With most research showing that mobile ...
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Daily Deal Media
Top Three Rated Mobile Payment Solutions
Melodika.net (press release)
Mobile payment solutions are hitting the processing industry with force. The convenience for customers to pay and quickly have businesses run their credit cards is beneficial on both ends of the payment. Brady's insight into the mobile processing world ...
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Chipotle treads lightly with restaurant tech
The News Journal
Like others in similar positions, he's got a wide palette of gee-whiz technologies at his disposal – tablets for ordering, mobile payment systems, in-store ATM-like machines for ordering that replace cashiers. Yet he eschews most of them. He's in no ...
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Wholesale Clothing Ghana Market Supplied By CloseoutExplosion.com
Daily Markets
You are now benefiting from a consumer that can shop online, and use payment options such as MTN Mobile Payment, OzinboPay, and the Vodafone Visa mobile payment system, which can all be used due to the prevalence of Internet cafes and mobile ...
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Blogs1 new result for "Mobile Payment"
Resilient 'SMSZombie' Infects 500000 Android Users in China ...
By Mike Lennon
Resilient "SMSZombie" Exploits China Mobile's Payment System - Over 500000 Android Devices Infected, Firm Says. Researchers from mobile security firm TrustGo have recently discovered a new, resilient mobile threat targeting Android ...
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NFC technology expanding beyond mobile commerce

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
NFC technology expanding beyond mobile commerce
QR Code Press


NFC technology has grown in popularity primarily due to its uses in mobile commerce. Though the technology has proven itself to be exceeding proficient in facilitating mobile payments, NFC can be used for more than this purpose. A new report from ...

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Mobile Payments to Top $1.3 Trillion Within Five Years

Angel with mobile phone
Angel with mobile phone (Photo credit: Akbar Sim)
NewsNFC Mobile Payment
Mobile Payments to Top $1.3 Trillion Within Five Years
NACS Online


Mobile payments will soon reach the trillion-dollar mark. New projections from Juniper Research forecast payments processed via cell phones will reach $1.3 trillion by 2017, Mobile Marketing Daily reports. "Mobile Payments Strategies: NFC, Remote ...

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