How A Stolen Wallet Made Me A Mobile-Payments Enthusiast
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 »
New Patent Suits Target Starbucks, Expedia Mobile Payments
In a possible sign of trouble for the booming mobile payment industry, a semiconductor firm filed patent lawsuits against Starbucks (NSDQ: S… Read more »
RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology
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 »
45 Carriers Endorse Mobile Payment Standard, But Will It Make A Difference?
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
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
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 »
Isis May Get $100M, But What Is The Future Of Its Mobile Technology?
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
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 »
How Mobile Can Bridge The Digital And Physical Worlds In New Ways
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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 »
Report: Mobile Payments Group Isis Scaling Back Plans For Payment Network
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
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 »
@TiE-ISB Connect: MChek To Launch P2P Mobile Payments With Visa, Banks
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 »
