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PayPal co-founder Levchin launches new mobile payment start-up
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Max Levchin, co-founder of online payment giant PayPal, launched a rival business on Tuesday called Affirm that will compete in the crowded but fast-growing mobile payments business. Affirm's technology helps shoppers ...
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Financial Times
Won-Pyo Hong, head of Samsung's Media Solution Center, added: “The partnership with Visa represents a step towards a global mobile payment platform. We believe that we have a strong value proposition for financial institutions that will ultimately ...
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MasterCard's MasterPass makes mobile payments easier
TechHive
Buyer, beware: Purchasing products is becoming almost too easy. MasterCard is building on its existing PayPass mobile wallet technology with MasterPass, a service that lets consumers store payment information on their smartphones and buy items with ...
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Snapper to launch mobile payments for parking
Computerworld New Zealand
Szikszai says he wants to work with Auckland Council on providing mobile payments for parking meters in Auckland, however he points out that Snapper – which is owned by Infratil – was ousted from the Auckland's integrated ticketing contract last year ...
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MasterCard reports on consumer attitudes to mobile payments
NFC World
The Mobile Payments Social Media Study tracked 85,000 social media comments across Twitter, Facebook, blogs and forums around the world and found that there are continued concerns over security and customer support as well as confusion over the...
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NFC World
MasterCard rolls out MasterPass mobile payment system
The Denver Channel
MasterCard is introducing MasterPass, a new service that will make it even easier to shop and make purchases from virtually any mobile device, whether it's a smartphone in the dressing room or a tablet at the coffee shop. The service builds on ...
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Samsung and Visa take NFC mobile payments global
The Age
This is a big win for Visa, Samsung and viability of NFC payments. Visa is one of the leaders in the mobile payments space and Samsung is the world's biggest smartphone maker. Together, the two have a solid chance of making mobile payments a global ...
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The Age
Samsung, Visa to accelerate global mobile payments market
Digital Spy UK
These devices can be personalised with a customer's Visa payment account information, enabling them to more easily use a mobile payment application provided by their bank or financial company. In turn, any financial institutions that want to launch ...
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Smartphone payments via NFC? Don't ditch your wallet just yet
ZDNet
The companies said the deal could pave the way for the implementation of large-scalemobile payment programmes, pointing to numbers from ABI Research forecasting that a total of 1.95 billion NFC-enabled devices will ship in 2017 — although in 2013 the...
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MasterCard pushes mobile payments worldwide
E&T magazine
Announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, The aim of the service is to provide paymentsolutions, such as money transfers between individual customers, bill payments from mobiledevices, and mobile commerce across its European, Asian and ...
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