Losing your phone is never fun. But losing your wallet is much worse, and that’s one argument where those trying to roll the mobile-payments… Read More »
In a possible sign of trouble for the booming mobile payment industry, a semiconductor firm filed patent lawsuits against Starbucks (NSDQ: S… Read More »
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read More »
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest… Read More »
The NFC Dance: One Step Closer With PayPal; One Step Further With Square
By Ingrid Lunden
Nov. 2, 2011, 8:30pm
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We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read More »
Nokia To Chop 1,300 People From Its Navteq Mapping/Commerce Division
By Ingrid Lunden
Sep. 29, 2011, 3:27pm
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No one ever said turnarounds were easy, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) — currently the world’s largest handset maker — is one big ship. Today the c… Read More »
Near Field Communications with mobile devices is still far from being a mainstream technology, and there have been precious few examples of… Read More »
Visa Buys Fundamo, Takes Big Step Into Mobile Payments In Developing World
By Ingrid Lunden
Jun. 9, 2011, 3:17pm
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Visa is getting a lot more serious about mobile payments, and significantly it’s not just putting its efforts and investments in developing… Read More »
Given Google’s core search business and ad-based revenue model, why is the company making the major investment that is the recently-announce… Read More »
Mobile payments are a hot topic among phone makers, wireless carriers, and payment processing companies this year, and those groups looking… Read More »
Orange Finally Gives Green Light For NFC In The UK
By Ingrid Lunden
Jan. 28, 2011, 6:07pm
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Looks like it is all coming together for mobile NFC, the technology that lets people buy things by simply waving a mobile handset at a point… Read More »
Sanjay Swamy, CEO of MChek mentioned some details of the deployment of their P2P (person to person) payment option. They’re launching the se… Read More »
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