06-Feb-12
SpyderLynk's "Snap-to-Buy" Technology Creates Transformative Mobile Shopping Experience for Magazine Readers

SpyderLynk's "Snap-to-Buy" Technology Creates Transformative Mobile Shopping Experience for Magazine Readers. Glamour and L'Oreal USA First to Deploy Snap-to-Buy SnapTags Allowing Consumers to Purchase Advertised Products On-the-Spot in One Seamless Mobile Transaction....

06-Feb-12
Mobile payment apps work to make wallets obsolete

Mobile payment apps work to make wallets obsolete. Google argues that its NFC-based Wallet app is a big step forward for a few reasons. A single tap replaces not just the payment, but also the exchange of receipts, coupons and loyalty points. ...

06-Feb-12
Learning from Kenya: Mobile money transfer and co-working spaces

Since Africa is trying to solve problems that we in the Western world do not have, it’s tempting to say that innovation there isn’t really relevant to us. But upon visiting Africa, one realizes that to ignore its recent innovations is a big mistake....

06-Feb-12
PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns

PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns. Last year, PayPal exceeded its own expectations, reaching $4 billion in mobile payment volume. This year, it expects to increase that to $7 billion....

02-Feb-12
Who Needs a Bank Branch When You've Got a Mobile Phone?

There's a great deal of discussion and debate around what will ultimately happen to banking as a result of the massive changes in connectivity, utility, mobility and customer experience taking place right now. Banks will be disenfranchised, losing direct relationships with customers as banks adapt to becoming pervasive providers of bank products and services, when and where you need them....

02-Feb-12
Mobile Banking Guidance May Be Forthcoming

In response to the increased use of mobile banking applications among consumers, financial services industry regulators may soon release new guidance on how banks and other organizations should go about leveraging this trend, according to BankInfoSecurity....

31-Jan-12
With Square card reader, T-Mobile lets ‘cash-only’ shops take plastic

T-Mobile USA is teaming up with Square Inc. to offer a mobile payment device for small businesses that have not in the past accepted credit card payments from customers....

31-Jan-12
Starbucks Says It's Number One in World in Mobile Payments

Starbucks founder, Chairman and CEO Howard D. Schultz said mobile payment and mobile commerce is going to change the way in which consumers buy things, and he said Starbucks was the number-one company not in the U.S., but in the world, in terms of mobile payment, transactions and dollars....

30-Jan-12
FIS and mFoundry Strengthen Strategic Relationship

FIS Expands Relationship, Increases Stake in Mobile Financial Services Leader...

30-Jan-12
Canada's Payfirma Updates Its Mobile Payment App in a Big Way

he mobile payment app now has a sleeker design, real-time sales summary, location tagging, and supports multiple languages...

30-Jan-12
How LevelUp aims to shake up mobile payments

If retailers don't have smartphones to use in the store, LevelUp and T-Mobile are partnering to offer them for a monthly fee. ...

30-Jan-12
Tabbedout Names Paul Fiore as New CEO Veteran technology and financial services executive brought on to manage rapid growth

Fiore brings more than twenty years of executive leadership experience in the technology and financial services industries to Tabbedout....

13-Jan-12
Big advancements underway in mobile NFC

The new mobile standard, which allows for sending secure data in a contactless and powerful way, is just beginning to make strides in the smartphone market....

13-Jan-12
PayPal raises mobile payments prediction to $7 billion in 2012

PayPal is expecting to nearly double what it saw in mobile payments volume in 2011 to nearly $7 billion for 2012....

13-Jan-12
Pushing Mobile Payments

So far customers and retailers have remained tepid toward the technology, called near-field communication, or NFC, prompting Sprint and others at the Las Vegas show to try a different tack: touting NFC's "side benefits," which include mobile coupons and digital-key replacement....

12-Jan-12
San Francisco Launches NFC Payment for All Its Metered Parking

The PayByPhone system, already in use at 250 of the city's metered spaces, enables drivers with NFC phones to make payments by tapping their handsets against a parking meter....

12-Jan-12
Moneto uses microSD to implement their own NFC payment system on Android

Moneto uses microSD to implement their own NFC payment system on Android....

12-Jan-12
Making the Most of Mobile Banking

Mitek Systems is a pioneer in digital bank deposits. And its shares should take off as more banks embrace its technology....

12-Jan-12
Tapping the Unbanked Market

Wireless carriers, money-transfer vendors, and other stakeholders are poised to bring mobile banking services to North America's unbanked....

11-Jan-12
PayPal Mobile Payments Skyrocketed to $4 Billion in 2011

Online payment company PayPal processed nearly $4 billion worth of mobile payments in 2011, an exponential increase from the previous year....