Zooz’s people-first payments platform zooms off with $2M

Zooz has raised $2 million to build out its online checkout solutions, which take a consumer-driven approach to powering payments.

Meet the startups jostling at our MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Competition

VentureBeat is proud to announce the finalists for our MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Competition, where exciting new startups compete to see who has the best tablet app, smartphone app, and mobile service.

Fitting into our new design theme, we’ll be paying …

The mobile web finally gets an easy, secure payment system for in-app shopping

One of the biggest concerns developers have about the mobile web revolves around monetization: How are users going to find, pay for, and shop inside a mobile web app?

Quite a few parties are working on the first problem — …