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Western Union, VTN launch mobile money service
Bizcommunity.com
The Western Union Company and Virtual Terminal Network (VTN), a Nigerian mobile paymentoperator, launched a mobile money transfer service in Nigeria - giving Nigerians, for the first time, the choice to use their mobile phones to direct Western Union ...
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The Next 10 Tech Markets That Will Be Worth $1 Billion Or More
Houston Chronicle
Mobile payment services like Square, Intuit's Go Payment and PayPal Here allow users to accept payments virtually anywhere that there is a cell signal. As of late 2012, Square was valued at roughly $3 billion. The industry is still in its infancy but ...
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Watchdog backs iPhone pay plan
Express.co.uk
Payleven is the first mobile payment provider to receive FSA authorisation, so it is a major milestone for the company. Alston Zecha, co-founder and chief executive. Customers simply enter their pin on the keypad of the device. There is a 2.75 per cent ...
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PayPal going mobile to extend its services
Omaha World-Herald
The digital payments company, owned by San Jose, Calif.-based EBay Inc., is attempting to appeal to mobile-phone users and to accustom people to using the system to pay for goods and services even while physically present at a merchant, Marcus said.
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T-Mobile's new Simple Choice Plan: How does it stack up?
Los Angeles Times
Although T-Mobile says there are no contracts, users must either provide a T-Mobile-compatible smartphone or buy one from the company. Users can pay for their smartphone at full price right off the bat or make a down payment followed by 24 monthly ...
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Mobile Wallets: The U.S. Landscape
PR Web (press release)
Mercator Advisory Group's new report, Mobile Wallets: The U.S. Landscape, reviews U.S. mobile payment trends, analyzes the wallets by function and sorts them into a taxonomy of the major players, their wallets and the most common uses. "The mobile...
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PR Web (press release)
Former trader's software skips Visa to Challenge Google Wallet
The News Journal
Google Inc.'s mobile-wallet solution lets consumers pay for goods in stores by tapping a smartphone on a device. People talking about mobile payments dwell on the use of near-field communications, or NFC, as the best way to transfer money from the ...
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