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 …
Google’s mobile payment strategy is just getting started, but that doesn’t faze Stephanie Tilenius, the company’s vice president of commerce.
“There’s going to be a ton of innovation in mobile payments,” Tilenius said Tuesday at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference in …
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 …
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 …
Investing in and using Bitcoins, a digital currency that can be transferred directly from person to person through the Internet, is a particularly bad idea because it is unstable and is being used as a speculative vehicle. That’s the consensus …
eWise, a company that allows people to to make secure online payments, today announced it has secured a second round of funding for $14 million.
The funding will be used to expand Secure Vault Payments, the company’s payment technology, in …
2011 seems to be the year that mobile payments go mainstream with everyone from the big mobile carriers and handset manufacturers to scrappy new startups scrambling on to the payments bandwagon.
sQuid and ACT, which together cover 85 percent of …
Live Gamer has partnered with payment provider Skrill to provide worldwide monetization options for online game publishers. The combined offering makes it easier for game publishers to launch games with Live Gamer’s virtual goods platform and Skrill’s Moneybookers payment system.…
How committed is Facebook to broadening its revenue streams beyond advertising?
So serious that it’s formed a subsidiary, Facebook Payments, Inc., and is registering it in a host of states.
The move could signal an intent by the world’s largest …
Manilla is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains …
Boku, which lets users make purchases with their mobile phones the same way they would with a credit card, just announced a partnership with the BilltoMobile payment service, which is directly connected to the Verizon Wireless billing system. Rival payment …
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2010 dramatically changed how we think about how people and businesses exchange money. We saw ecommerce continue to grow and we saw emerging channels take flight with consumers and merchants of all sizes.
As great as last year was for …
Cash payment service PayNearMe, formerly known as Kwedit, announced today that it has grabbed another $16 million in funding and is launching a new mobile payment option.
Directed at consumers who don’t have access to credit cards, PayNearMe lets users …
PlaySpan is turning itself into a one-stop shop for e-commerce and payments for online games, social networks, and video sites.
Today, the company is introducing its “monetization as a service” platform. The service is a web-based platform that combines seven …
Dynamics is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Soon you’ll be able to make purchases in the U.S. by waving your smartphone, if AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have their way. The carriers are partnering for a joint venture that will aim to displace credit and debit cards, sources …
Facebook’s recent partnership with PayPal is starting to take shape now that advertisers can use the online payments service to buy ads on the social network. The option is being rolled out today.
Facebook tapped the eBay-owned service to power …
In a vote of confidence for Google’s mobile operating system, mobile payments providers Boku and Zong are announcing today they will enable their services for Android mobile devices.
Boku and Zong are rivals in the emerging market for mobile payments, …
Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey demonstrated Square, his latest startup whose service allows users to accept credit-card payments on iPhone and Android devices.
The demo didn’t show us anything that we haven’t …
Online payment vendors such as eBay’s PayPal have become popular for one-time purchases. But Aria Systems is expanding PayPal’s repertoire to subscription management.
PayPal has handled the payments part of subscriptions for years. But to date, subscription management systems have …
