14-May-12
Kony Solutions Is Among the First Mobile Platform Vendors to Support MasterCard PayPass Wallet Services

Kony Solutions Is Among the First Mobile Platform Vendors to Support MasterCard PayPass Wallet Services....

10-May-12
PayMate launches PayPOS, a mobile app for POS card payments

Leading mobile payments company PayMate India Pvt Ltd has officially launched an application that enables small businesses to accept and process electronic transactions (using credit and debit cards) directly on their mobile phones at the point of sale (POS) itself....

08-May-12
99Bill's Smartphone Card Reader to Enable Massive Mobile Payment in China

99Bill Corporation, China's leading electronic financial service provider, announced the official launch of its new mobile payment product 99Bill Card Reader. By simply plugging the tiny 99Bill Card Reader into Smartphone audio jack, merchants can accept bank card and credit card payments on the go, and make more sales quickly. ...

08-May-12
Who's Ready For Mobile Payments? The U.S., Canada...And Kenya

MasterCard launches the MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), which assesses and ranks 34 global economies in terms of how ready (or not) they are for mobile payments of three types: M-commerce, POS, and P2P....

07-May-12
Democratisation of money

The use of mobile technology such as phones and other electronic channels like point of sales terminals, internet, etc, for money transfer and other transactions have revolutionised the financial service sector in Nigeria....

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....

01-May-12
Payfirma Opens its Mobile Payment App for Integration

Payfirma Opens its Mobile Payment App for Integration. Any mobile developer can now turn their mobile app into a point of sale using Payfirma's payment platform....

25-Apr-12
In Canada, phones poised to challenge credit cards

Thousands of Canadian retailers already have equipment in place to let customers pay for purchases with a swipe of their mobile phones, putting the country in the lead in developing a system that could one day make cash obsolete. ...

23-Apr-12
Turkcell adds location-based offers to NFC payments platform

Turkcell, a Turkish mobile network operator, has combined its location-based service (LBS) platform with its NFC mobile wallet service to allow subscribers to receive special offers on their NFC phone when they are near a participating merchant — and then redeem an offer at the point-of-sale....

23-Apr-12
Digital Dining to Offer Tabbedout

Digital Dining to Offer Tabbedout. Leading POS vendor to offer merchants a mobile payment solution that lets consumers pay tabs with their phone,...

19-Apr-12
Barclays intros contactless payment sticker

Financial services provider Barclaycard has introduced a sticker-based contactless payments offering to support mobile money transfer service Pingit in the UK....

19-Apr-12
Tabbedout Brings Mobile Payment to Houston

Tabbedout, the free mobile payment app that allows consumers to open, view and pay tabs with their phones, has launched service in nearly 50 locations throughout the Houston area, including popular locations such as Kung Fu Saloon, Hendricks, OTC, Roak and Royal Oak, with more bar and restaurant locations coming soon....

13-Apr-12
Mobile payment system Paydragon fights the food cart line

Paydragon allows you to order from local food carts, pay via a card saved to the app, and then skip the line to pick up your food. Merchants are pinged when you place your order and use the Paydragon interface on their end to see how long customers have been waiting. You’ll also receive a notification when your order is ready....

13-Apr-12
Sage Launches Mobile Payments Portal

Sage Launches Mobile Payments Portal. Sage Exchange.com enables business owners to log in and see all of the various payment devices at all of the franchises or store locations at which they are located and will be able to run reports, perform back office functions, and even churn out marketing offers....

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....

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....

04-Apr-12
ROAM Data to Launch Payment Industry’s First Device Agnostic Mobile NFC and Magnetic Card Reader Combo called “NFC Swipe”

ROAM introduces NFC Swipe in advance of commercial launch slated for mid-2012 which marks a milestone for low cost contactless acceptance in the evolution of mobile payments....