| 10 New Rules for Mobile Payments and Loyalty Startups Forbes Among mobile payments and loyalty startups, easy money is fueling what I call “marginal discovery” – slight variations on similar ideas. For every truly outstanding startup, five or six have a faulty premise, fail to solve a problem, or choose “cool ... See all stories on this topic » |  Forbes |
| Mobile Payments Still Lack Clear Winner MediaPost Communications A new report concludes that the mobile payments business is small but rapidly growing, with payment solutions linked to major card-based networks like Visa and MasterCard showing the most promise so far. By contrast, m-payments powered by near-field ... See all stories on this topic » |  MediaPost Communications |
| The Boy Genius Report: Apple's billion dollar mobile payment magic trick Yahoo! News (blog) By simply taking the time to get it right, and not jump on board with an unproven piece of technology at the wrong time, Apple will be able to leverage the company's own hundreds of millions of accounts and revolutionize the mobile payment space. See all stories on this topic » |  Yahoo! News (blog) |
Mobile Payments Today
Venmo is flipping mobile payments around with its newest product. The peer-to-peer payment provider, which was bought by online payment processor Braintree last year, is introducing Venmo Payouts today. For a while now, the mobile payments market has ...
See all stories on this topic »Nokia teams up with LevelUp to boost mobile payments
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Have you ever used LevelUp? It's a convenient service for making payments with your phone and is great for consumers who want to be rewarded for making routine payments. Here's how LevelUp works – first you sign up at thelevelup.com and link a credit ...
See all stories on this topic »"Paper, Plastic... Or Mobile?": FTC Issues Staff Report On Mobile Payments
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On Friday the FTC issued a staff report titled "Paper, Plastic . . . or Mobile?: An FTC Workshop onMobile Payments" addressing mobile payments and its effects on consumers and highlighting potential areas of concern. The staff report follows a ...
See all stories on this topic »Beyond NFC and QR, the next m-payment acronym might be BLE
Mobile Payments Today
It doesn't look like we're getting any closer to narrowing down the technologies that will make mobile payments possible. According to the Frontline blog, Microsoft is toying with mobile paymentsusing a combination of Bluetooth low energy and gaming ...
See all stories on this topic »Square impressed with activations in Canada, says average mobile payment is ...
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Square launched their Mobile Card Reader in Canada on October 24th. This was their first market outside the of U.S. and a welcomed addition to the mobile scene as any individual or business owners could easily and securely start accepting payments from ...
See all stories on this topic »PayZang releases API for its payment gateway
Mobile Payments Today
Every corner of the mobile payment market is getting more crowded. Now it's the developer-focused online payment gateway space that's becoming more competitive. (When did that even become a niche?) Today, Salt Lake City-based PayZang, a provider of ...
See all stories on this topic »Volume of payments via mobile phones up 10% in 2012
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Prague, March 18 (CTK) - The total volume of payments via mobile phones in the Czech Republic grew by one-tenth to almost Kc2.5bn last year, the most frequently used payments being transactions via SMS text messages, the Association of Mobile Network ...
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