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RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology

By Ingrid Lunden Nov. 24, 2011, 6:40pm 2 Comments

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?

By Ingrid Lunden Nov. 17, 2011, 4:54am 2 Comments

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 Comments Off

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 Comments Off

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 »

Update: Google Buys Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce

By Ingrid Lunden Sep. 19, 2011, 5:38pm 1 Comment

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read More »

UK Mobile Payments JV Hits Rocks Before It’s Started: Three Appeals To EU

By Ingrid Lunden Sep. 8, 2011, 4:41pm Comments Off

Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture be… Read More »

Isis May Get $100M, But What Is The Future Of Its Mobile Technology?

By Ingrid Lunden Aug. 29, 2011, 9:31pm 1 Comment

Near Field Communications with mobile devices is still far from being a mainstream technology, and there have been precious few examples of… Read More »

PayPal Demos Android-Based NFC Mobile Payment System

By Tom Krazit Jul. 14, 2011, 2:27am 1 Comment

There aren’t a lot of phones on the market which can serve as digital currency, but PayPal demonstrated Wednesday how its users will be able… Read More »

Updated: UK Mobile Carriers Team Up For M-Payments Push

By Ingrid Lunden Jun. 16, 2011, 3:22pm Comments Off

Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet… Read More »

Mobile Lowdown 5-26-11: Google Sprint NFC; Chinese Android; O2; New Fund

By Ingrid Lunden May. 26, 2011, 3:04pm 1 Comment

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read More »

Reports: Google’s Mobile Payments Strategy Is Ready For The Bill

By Tom Krazit May. 25, 2011, 1:33am 2 Comments

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is finally ready to articulate its mobile-payments strategy at an event Thursday in New York, according to several repor… Read More »

Mobile Lowdown 5-20-11: More Apple Cloud; NFC UK; iPhone China; WP7 Verizon

By Ingrid Lunden May. 20, 2011, 3:27pm Comments Off

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch… Read More »

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