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Why Mobile Payments Might Still Be A Few Years Away In A Few Years

By Tom Krazit Sep. 27, 2011, 2:00pm 3 Comments

Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read More »

Where The Daily Deal Business Is Headed

By Laura Hazard Owen Jul. 26, 2011, 2:40am 5 Comments

How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are anothe… Read More »

Four Major Credit Card Companies Joining Isis Mobile Payments Group

By Tom Krazit Jul. 19, 2011, 11:05pm Comments Off

The mobile payments scene got a little more complicated Tuesday, as the big traditional credit card companies joined the Isis mobile payment… 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 »

Visa Buys Fundamo, Takes Big Step Into Mobile Payments In Developing World

By Ingrid Lunden Jun. 9, 2011, 3:17pm Comments Off

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 »

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 »

The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire

By Ingrid Lunden May. 6, 2011, 3:52pm Comments Off

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read More »

Visa Invests In Mobile Payment Startup Square

By Joseph Tartakoff Apr. 27, 2011, 11:20pm 1 Comment

Visa has invested an undisclosed sum in mobile payments firm Square in what the companies are describing as a “strategic investment.” Square… Read More »

Congress Wants To Shut Down ‘Rogue’ Websites, But Verizon Wants Limits

By Joe Mullin Feb. 17, 2011, 5:46am Comments Off

Just about every member of the the Senate Judiciary Committee seems amped up to pass some version of a controversial anti-piracy bill, the C… Read More »

Mobile Content Bits: Apple/Google/Nokia + Nortel; NY Daily News; Visa

By Ingrid Lunden Dec. 15, 2010, 5:26pm Comments Off

– Apple/Google/Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Nortel: This one is still a work in progress… Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Nokia are… Read More »

Visa Starts Mobile NFC Payments In Malaysia

By James Quintana Pearce Apr. 14, 2009, 3:09am Comments Off

Visa has teamed with Malaysian operator Maxis and bank Maybank to launch a Near Field Communications (NFC) service using the credit card com… Read More »

Visa Plans To Use Android And Nokia For New Payment Services

By Tricia Duryee Sep. 25, 2008, 9:08pm Comments Off

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 »

Visa Flashes Its Credit Card On Facebook: $2M Ad Spend, Plus Promotional App