| Merchants wary of mobile-payment costs Globe and Mail The group wants a requirement for “express consent” – meaning that merchants would not be obliged to accept mobile payments just because they have signed up for so-called contactless credit-card transactions. Canadians are already in the habit of using... See all stories on this topic » |  Globe and Mail |
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In-store mobile payments almost quadrupled last year, and PayPal alone processed around $14 billion in mobile payments in 2012, according to Business Insider. That means mobile paymentsneed to be a key part of future retail strategy. Just last week ...
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| Payment industry executives eye mobile future Bostonglobe Many of them gathered Wednesday at Harvard University to hash out the future of buying and selling via smartphones and other Internet-connected gadgets during a two-day forum that includes MasterCard, PayPal, and the Boston mobile payments start-up ... See all stories on this topic » |  Bostonglobe |
| Rogers boosts smartphone offerings in mobile-payment push Globe and Mail Canada's largest wireless carrier is deepening its push into the nascent market formobile payments. Rogers Communications Inc. said Wednesday it is offering a broader array of smartphones that consumers can use, instead of plastic credit cards, to pay ... See all stories on this topic » |  Globe and Mail |
The Province
The idea behind the service is that for purchases of less than $50, you can leave your credit card in your wallet and instead wave your smartphone – equipped with near-field communications (NFC) technology – in front of a contactless payment terminal.
See all stories on this topic »Rogers clears Suretap NFC payments on some Android and BlackBerry 10 ...
Engadget
The certification allows credentials issuers including banks, loyalty and reward programs to developmobile payment solutions for Android and BlackBerry 10 devices that leverage the secure SIM card in an NFC-enabled device. Rogers suretap service ...
See all stories on this topic »Mobile kingpins to marketing mavens: Bonking is brilliant, wanna try?
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Weve was born out of the realisation that the credit card companies, Visa and Mastercard, were never going to share a cut of payments made using their cards, even if those cards were electronic versions stored in a mobile phone. Denied that most ...
See all stories on this topic »Walmart inches toward mobile checkout with Scan & Go app for iPhone
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It's not a mobile payment system exactly. And Walmart's version doesn't enable the same independence as, say, what Apple has enabled in its own retail stores with the EasyPay option in its Apple Store app or apps from companies like Square and Paypal.
See all stories on this topic »Nokia, LevelUp partner for mobile payment service
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At the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival is Austin, Texas, Nokia and mobile paymentscompany LevelUp partnered to demonstrate LevelUp's service to new and existing customers. With LevelUp users can link their credit or debit card with the service, and ...
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