24-May-12
Which of these smartphone card readers will win the mobile payments race?

The mobile payment industry is constantly evolving and extremely complex. NFC gains a lot of attention , however, as yet, it has failed to take off. In the short-term, it seems likely that mobile card readers will prove to be more popular with merchants and consumers and four companies hoping to take a share of the mobile payment industry are Square, iZettle, PayPal and Sage....

16-May-12
iZettle mobile payment app and dongle comes to the UK

Zettle, a new mobile payment solution, has arrived the UK. The dongle, which attaches to the iOS device, reads your card like a chip-and-pin machine and allows you to sign for goods....

09-May-12
SMB mobile payment options add up

VeriFone and MasterCard are targeting small businesses with new mobile payment technologies, but there are plenty of start-ups bringing innovation to these solutions....

09-May-12
Flint: A New Mobile Payment App For Small Businesses Picks Up $3M From Storm, True Ventures

Flint, a new mobile payment app for small businesses picks up $3M from storm, true ventures....

08-May-12
Mobile Payments Platform Square Finds A Foothold At Art Fairs And Farmers’ Markets

Mobile Payments Platform Square Finds A Foothold At Art Fairs And Farmers’ Markets. The company says that at Etsy’s New York’s Spring Handmade Cavalcade last weekend in Brooklyn, over 90% of the vendors used Square to accept payments....

07-May-12
LevelUp is asking consumers to scan, not swipe

LevelUp is asking consumers to scan, not swipe. Mobile payment startup eyes the path of Square, but with a bigger focus on loyalty perks....

02-May-12
How Safe Are Mobile Payments?

How Safe Are Mobile Payments? Approximately 12 percent of mobile phone owners made a mobile payment in 2011, according to a recent survey by the Federal Reserve. According to the survey, concerns about the security of the technology were the primary reason respondents gave for not using mobile payments. Industry experts weigh in on security concerns....

02-May-12
SalesVu 2.0 Launches in the US and Canada, Gains Technology Advantage over Mobile Payment Competitors Square and Intuit

Austin-based SalesVu just released its latest mobile payment application, SalesVu 2.0 for iPhone’s and iPad’s. The new update solidifies SalesVu’s technology leadership position as the only mobile payment solution with centralized cloud-based management, reporting, and social media marketing....

30-Apr-12
Square Growing Faster Than Top Competitors in Mobile Payments

In the three years that Square has existed, the company and its hugely popular line of smartphone and tablet-compatible credit card readers have grown consistently in terms of both merchant usage and consumer popularity....

26-Apr-12
Square mobile payments reach $5 billion/year

Square is doing better than ever, and showing that even in the face of highly mounting competition it can be a major player - the company is processing transactions at a rate of $5 billion per year....

19-Apr-12
Ebay aims for lead in mobile payments race

Ebay is staking out its ground in the race to lead the mobile payments market, as large companies and start-ups alike compete to replace credit cards and cash registers with “mobile wallet” offerings....

12-Apr-12
Intuit Acquires Mobile Payments Startup AisleBuyer

AisleBuyer, a mobile payments solution provider that focuses on making in-store shopping on mobile devices easy for retailers to implement, was acquired by ecommerce heavyweight Intuit in a deal this week, the terms of which were not disclosed....

11-Apr-12
Payments Companies Making Mobile Wallets a Reality

Connected smartphones can take the place of any number of other items, including mobile wallets. It's already starting thanks to companies like Square, PayPal and Google. But it isn’t only big companies rushing to fill that need; the space is a point of focus for plenty of smaller players, too, many of which are trying to do something a little different than what’s already out there....

09-Apr-12
Bump Pay app helps transfer money

Bump Pay app helps transfer money. With over 85 million downloads in the past three years of the original Bump app, the company is expanding its focus to other areas using their design philosophy, which is to minimize the friction involved in exchanging information and data between people. ...

04-Apr-12
GoPago’s line-skipping mobile payment system launches in San Francisco

GoPago is launching its cloud-based mobile payment system in San Francisco on Tuesday, the start of a nationwide rollout that will spread to Dallas, Chicago and New York City later this year. The service allows consumers to order and pay ahead from their mobile app and essentially skip the line at all kinds of businesses, from restaurants and hair salons to dry cleaners and coffee shops....

30-Mar-12
Bump Pay iPhone app exchanges money by tapping devices together

Bump Labs joined the mobile payments craze yesterday when the startup launched its Bump Pay app that allows people to exchange money by tapping their phones together....

27-Mar-12
Google Looks To Split Fees With Carriers To Boost Wallet Adoption

Reports suggests that Google is considering sharing revenue with carriers like Verizon and AT&T in order to get them to adopt its technology and boost market share in the mobile payments market....

26-Mar-12
Square relaunches mobile payments app as 'Pay with Square'

Square relaunches mobile payments app as 'Pay with Square' with numerous new features....