It increasingly looks like Google will announce a new mobile-payment service for its Android devices tomorrow.
Security has been a top concern among people MasterCard has surveyed about mobile-payment services.
PayPal, long a leader in Web transactions, is fighting to stay in the forefront of the mobile-payment game.
Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into mobile-payment-related start-ups with names like Clinkle, Cardspring, Paydiant, BoxPAY and DigiMo.
Visa and several large banks are testing mobile-payment programs that allow consumers to make contact-less payments with an existing smartphone equipped with a special chip card and antenna.
Led by Jack Dorsey, who helped set up Twitter, Square has pioneered mobile-payment systems for smartphones, but it has rivals in this fast-developing market, including Google and PayPal.
While one can't help but see the big product introductions -- a social network, a mobile-payment system, a music store -- it's the deletions that are much more interesting.
Mobile-payment services respond that the added levels of security, required of all registered payment service providers, can make these payments safer than handing a credit or debit card to a waiter.
They include Applied Solar, which also plans to build power plants for Indian cell towers, and M-KOPA, a startup created by the founders of M-PESA, the leading mobile-payment service in Kenya and Tanzania.
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So, one thing we can be sure of is that as unsettled as the mobile-payment sector might seem to be right now, that situation will only get more complex over the next few years on the way to that trillion-dollar mark.
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The Minneapolis-based bank doesn't plan to charge for its new mobile photo bill-payment service.
Today, tens of thousands of suretap SIM cards are in market and hundreds of thousands of suretap mobile payment -ready devices are being used by Canadians.
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McDonald's showcased an even more in-depth mobile payment app earlier this year at a conference in Orlando, Reuters reports.
If a retailing chain, for example, needs in-house mobile payment processing, Howerton and Hoch will recruit a team and oversee the creation of a company suited especially for that purpose.
By integrating Intrinsic ID's PUF technology into its secure microcontroller SmartMX2, NXP significantly enhances the chip's security architecture and strengthens applications such as NFC-enabled mobile payment, electronic ticketing, and eGovernment and cyber security services.
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It's a potentially strong start to one of the few truly cross-network mobile payment systems in the US, but we see a long road ahead before Isis gives Google Wallet some jitters -- there's legions of banks, cities and stores needed before Isis is widespread, and we're not counting on that ever-elusive universal hardware support.
The company credits its m-commerce and mobile payment initiatives as the primary driver of growth.
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After college, he got a job as regional manager at a biometric mobile payment firm start-up firm, Pay By Touch, and moved to Chicago with the company.
Isis and Google are backing conflicting versions of the same technology (Near Field Communications, or NFC), and equally significant players like PayPal are going entirely different directions with cloud-based (rather than hardware-based) mobile payment initiatives.
Since Skrill has country-speicfic payment options from bank transfer to debit cards to mobile payments and pre-paid cards, users are much more likely to buy virtual goods when they see a local payment option they know.
Out-of-the-box, the LeafPresenter provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with a feature-rich mobile ordering and checkout device capable of accepting payments via their choice of processor or next-generation payment methods such as PayPal, LevelUp and other mobile wallets.
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Increased adoption of mobile devices for e-commerce and payment purposes saw the company beat its own estimates for the year.
Braintree provides online and mobile payment technology to fast-growing consumer-facing services like OpenTable, Fab.com, Airbnb, Uber, Angry Birds, and Living Social.
Cultivating a network of entrepreneurs inside this system, in concert with local universities and outfits like M-PESA, the mobile payment service of Vodaphone affiliate Safaricom, is another step.
Such technology can enable third-party developers to create mobile payment applications so users could use their phones as digital wallets.
The continent has, at a pace far outstripping the west, adopted mobile payment systems in huge numbers - more than 15 million in Kenya alone.
Leveraging our peer-to-peer technology we became the central hub linking the many banks and THEIR proprietary mobile wallets to the trusted payment delivery agents to solve the looming inter-wallet communication nightmare ahead of time.
LevelUp, a second, more-recent product, is a mobile payment and rewards network, that the company introduced into beta in July 2011.
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From scanners, to mobile friendly sites, price comparison apps and now plug-ins that turn phones into hand-held payment devices, 2011 is shaping up to be year of mobile commerce.
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