Google Wallet, the search company’s long-awaited mobile payments platform, has seemingly launched today with little fanfare.
TechCrunch yesterday reported on documentation being sent to Google Wallet partners indicating a September 19 launch. And this morning, Gigaom posted a photo of …
Confused about the many different flavors of mobile payments? The below infographic may help, courtesy of Mobile Payments Today.
The site has put together a truly useful diagram that cuts through the hype of mobile payments, and it delivers some …
The mobile payment network Isis is said to receive a major boost of more than $100 million from its parent companies AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, Bloomberg reports.
According to anonymous sources, the additional outlay is meant to make Isis, a …
Intuit and Verizon Wireless announced this morning that they will be partnering to offer Intuit’s GoPayment mobile card reader in Verizon stores, bringing the device to more than 2,300 retail locations across the US.
Aside from the obvious benefit of …
Mobile payments startup Square on Monday launched a new version of its iOS app that speeds up purchases and no longer requires signatures for payments under $25. The company also officially launched its Card Case app for customers who use …
At a recent rock festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, I ran into some American Express representatives promoting Serve, its new mobile payments product.
See below for a video I made about the product and its rock-show promotion tent.…
Visa’s mobile payments future just got real. The company announced today that it will deploy dual-mode chips in its infrastructure that will pave the way for NFC-based mobile payments, and it has also come up with an aggressive strategy to …
I have a bit of a crush on group-texting application GroupMe, which lets a bunch of phone owners jump into an ad-hoc chat room that’s powered by text messages. It’s simple, and best of all, it doesn’t use data.
The …
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There has been a huge scrum amongst the smartphone players to capture the market for phone-based purchases. In a very surprising move, the major US-based carriers just folded their mobile payments hand, and folded it hard. Isis, the mobile payment …
eBay‘s goal is to bring in $15 billion in yearly revenue by 2013, eBay chief executive John Donahoe said today. PayPal and a new unannounced product that will bring eBay offline might take them there, according to the company’s second …
Isis, the mobile payment network put together by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, today announced that it now has the support of Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
The news means that Isis’s mobile payment terminals will be able to handle …
American Express has signed Sprint to help it promote its Serve digital wallet platform.
The deal will give American Express a high-profile partner that can help it move from the age of credit cards to the age of digital payments. …
Verizon Wireless has plans to help developers, startups and other companies make the most of Near Field Communications to enable mobile payments as well as other applications.
Verizon Wireless’s executive director of new technology development, Humphrey Chen, took the stage …
Mobile payments will be mainstream within two years, according to a growing number of executives in financial, tech, telecommunications and retail industries.
A study released today by KPMG, a global network of firms providing financial advisory services, found 46 percent …
Online payments enabler PayPal today unveiled its first NFC (near-field communication) solution for Android devices at the MobileBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile, showed off how PayPal’s new NFC Android widget can be …
How can a mere mobile payments startup like Square become a beloved brand like Apple or Porsche? According to COO Keith Rabois, it’s by making payments far less frustrating for both consumers and merchants.
Rabois kicked off our MobileBeat 2011 …
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On first glance, Google’s acquisition of Punchd (a mobile phone-based loyalty service), a company barely a year and a half old, with little revenue and less than $150K in funding for $10M (reported widely) seems crazy. Initial speculation was that …
Bitcoins, a web-based virtual currency, are traded pretty fast and loose these days. Camp BX, an online trading site for the Bitcoin currency that launched Tuesday, wants to do things a little bit differently.
Camp BX founder Keyur Mithawala launched …
eBay announced today that it has purchased Zong, a company that lets you easily pay for purchases with your mobile phone number, for $240 million in cash.
The acquisition is clearly meant to make PayPal (which eBay owns) an even …
The market for mobile payments — which includes mobile shopping, money transfers and near-field communication (NFC) transactions — will hit $670 billion globally by 2015, a significant jump from $240 billion this year, according to Juniper Research’s latest report.
All …
