BlackBerry Partners Fund Makes First Three Investments In Buzzd, Digby And WorldMate
The $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced its first three investments totaling $16.7 million. They are: buzzd, a social networ… Read more »
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Mobile Content Bits: Michelin Guides; Mobile-To-Mobile Money; Ford; Apartments; Orange; HBO; Stickam
By Matt Kapko
Michelin Guides Go Mobile: If cloth napkins, sommeliers and an array of silverware is your kind of thing, Michelen guides might already be o… Read more »
Transaction Wireless Raises $2.25 Million In First Round For Mobile Gift Cards
By Tricia Duryee
San Diego-based Transaction Wireless, which is a mobile infrastructure, commerce and marketing company, said it raised $2.25 million in a fi… Read more »
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Visa Plans To Use Android And Nokia For New Payment Services
By Tricia Duryee
Visa said the U.S. isn’t ready to start using their phones to make payments in stores, like people do in Japan, but they preparing to launch… Read more »
G1 Live: The Android Market Is No App Store For Better And For Worse
By Tricia Duryee
When the T-Mobile G1 launches on Oct. 22, people will be able to browse and buy applications from the phone within the Android Market. Goog… Read more »
Sprint Rolls Out Mobile Payment System In New York Cabs
By Tricia Duryee
Sprint (NYSE: S) is getting one step closer to mobile payments with a massive roll-out of a service currently live 6,600 New York City cabs.… Read more »
Billing Revolution Comes Out Of Stealth To Replace Carriers As A Mobile Billing Platform
By Tricia Duryee
Seattle-based Billing Revolution is coming out of stealth today to unveil a billing platform that’s designed to cut mobile operators out of… Read more »
Text Messages Increasingly Used To Send Alerts, Ringtones, Video Clips, Etc.: Report
By Tricia Duryee
The number of text messages sent during the second quarter jumped 20 percent to 52 billion messages, compared to the previous quarter, accor… Read more »
Japan’s Mobile Tech Too Quirky To Succeed Overseas?
By Dianne See Morrison
For all of the cutting edge mobile technology that Japanese consumers have routine access to, surprisingly little of it has made its way out… Read more »
Obopay, Grameen Solutions Tie-Up For Mobile Payment Services For The Poor
By Cerius Shah
Mobile payment service provider Obopay and Nobel Prize winning Dr. Yunus’s micro-finance firm Grameen Solutions, have tied up for a mobile b… Read more »
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Paymo Secures $5 Million in Seed Financing
By James Quintana Pearce
Micropayments company Paymo has secured $5 million in seed financing, “provided by prominent angel investors in the United States and Europe… Read more »
RBI Puts Halt On Mobile Banking Services; Final Guidelines Expected In 2 Weeks
By Cerius Shah
The Reserve Bank of India has asked banks to keep their mobile payment services on holds until final guidelines are issued. However, mobile… Read more »
Maldives Setting Up National Mobile Banking System
By James Quintana Pearce
The Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives is gearing up for mobile banking, having received a $7.7 million loan from the World Bank to do s… Read more »
Update: Thumbplay Sued Over Billing Practices; Thumbplay Responds
By James Quintana Pearce
Thumbplay is the latest company to get sued over mobile content billing, with claims the company is guilty of “either passive indifference o… Read more »
KDDI Q2 Slight Data ARPU Increase Doesn’t Cover Voice Losses; Launches Mobile Bank
By James Quintana Pearce
Japanese telco KDDI has released its second quarter results — on the mobile side operating revenues increased by 0.7 percent to 679.8 billi… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Opera Mobile 9.5; Verizon Mobile Banking; Google Mobile Reviews; Mobile Posse
By Tricia Duryee
– Opera launches Mobile 9.5: Opera Software (OSL: OPERA) released today Opera Mobile 9.5 in beta, a new browser for Windows Mobile touchscr… Read more »
Sovereign Wealth To Acquire CellCard From EAccounts
By Tricia Duryee
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Sovereign Wealth, which invests in mobile marketing companies, said it has agreed to acquire CellCard from eAcco… Read more »
Google Adwords Launches Netbanking; Ties Up With DirecPay
By Cerius Shah
Just when you thought you knew all the usual suspects. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Adwords has launched its netbanking service and tied up with Dire… Read more »
EU Banks, Carriers Team Up On Mobile Payments
By Dianne See Morrison
European Union banks and mobile operators have agreed to work together on mobile payments. Mobile industry group, the GSM Association, and t… Read more »
Canadian Mobile Movie Listings Site MyMovies.ca Sold To RepeatSeat
By Rafat Ali
An interesting acquisition north of our borders: Calgary, Canada-based mobile ticketing solutions company RepeatSeat has bought the mobile m… Read more »
France’s Hi-Media Buys Mobile Marketing Firm Mobile Trend For Euro 7 Million
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France-based European online media firm Hi-Media has now extended its reach in mobile markets and has bought out local mobile market firm Mo… Read more »
Bank Of America Says It Has 1 Million mobile Users; Details Other Mobile-Banking Trends
By Tricia Duryee
Bank of America said in the last year since it launched its mobile-banking services, it has been able to tally up one million unique active… Read more »
RBI Drafts Norms On Mobile Payment For Banks
By Cerius Shah
The Reserve Bank of India has issued draft guidelines on mobile payments, a few highlights from the 12 page document below:
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Mobile Content Bits: The Three C’s: Cellpoint; CellSpin and Cellufun
By Tricia Duryee
Just for fun, this Friday’s mobile content bits will feature only companies with “cell” in their name….
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Paymate Raises Rs 38.57 Crores In Series B Funding
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Paymate has raised $9 million (Approx Rs 38.5 Crore) in series B funding from Mayfield Fund and existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield… Read more »
Tanla Acquires $15.8 Million Stake In Finnish-based Openbit
By Tricia Duryee
Tanla, an Indian provider of mobile services, said it acquired an 85 percent stake in Openbit, a Finland-based mobile payment software compa… Read more »
Indian Mobile Services Company Tanla Acquires $15.8 Million Stake In Finnish Openbit
By Tricia Duryee
Tanla, an Indian provider of mobile services, said it acquired an 85 percent stake in Openbit, a Finland-based mobile payment software compa… Read more »
Mobile Banking Forecasted To Generate Up To 62 Billion Transactions in 2012: Report
By Tricia Duryee
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Still A Long Wait For Mobile Contactless Payments
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Mobile Payment Service Obopay Raises $20 Million; Total At $68 Million
By James Quintana Pearce
Mobile payment company Obopay has raised $20 million in its fourth round of funding, reports GigaOM. The round isn’t finished and the final… Read more »
Alltel Sued Over Content Billing
By James Quintana Pearce
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Alltel (NYSE: AT) accusing the carrier of “systematically, repeatedly and without authorizatio… Read more »
Tata Indicom, Paymate Tie Up For Mobile Flight Ticketing
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Tata Indicom and Paymate have tied up to provide Indicom subscribers with flight ticketing services. The agreement is currently limited to d… Read more »
SK Telecom And Citigroup Launch Mobile Banking JV
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South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Citigroup, the US Read more »
Mobile Payment Roundup: Paymate-Sri Lanka; Barclays – USSD Based Services
By Nikhil Pahwa
– PayMate becomes the second Indian mobile payment co to enter Sri Lanka: the company has tied up with Bank of Ceylon (BOC) for enabling bi… Read more »
RBI To Finalize Regulatory Framework For Internet And Mobile Banking Soon
By Nikhil Pahwa
A committee looking into issues of Internet and mobile banking is expected to submit its report to the Reserve Bank of India in March, follo… Read more »
Complexity And Fear Keep Consumers From Shopping On The Phone: Study
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The mobile phone is too complex for users to feel comfortable using them to buy physical goods, however, consumers in the U.S. and the U.K.,… Read more »
Mobile Coupon Firm Cellfire Gets $12 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
CellFire, the San Jose, CA.-based mobile coupon firm, has raised $12 million in its third-round funding. The round was led by Silver Creek V… Read more »
Bango Adds Mobile Audience Research To Its Payment Products
By David Kaplan
Bango, which is mainly known for its mobile payment services, is now augmenting that function with a new research tool. The company tells us… Read more »
BART Launches Mobile Payment Service, Links With Ads
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San Francisco train system BART has launched a mobile payment trial with Sprint (NYSE: S) where 230 trial participants can pay for a ticket… Read more »
Mobile Retail Ad And Couponing Firm Modiv Media Gets $8 Million Funding
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Modiv Media, a Boston-area based mobile retail couponing and advertising firm, has received $8 million in its first round of funding, accord… Read more »
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