http://gigaom.com/2010/04/27/zong-collects-15m-for-mobile-payments/ Mon, 20 May 2013 01:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2010/04/27/zong-collects-15m-for-mobile-payments/#comment-249417 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:48:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=116264#comment-249417 [...] joining the board of the company along side Blackberry’s Kevin Talbot. Payfone is competing with other liberally funded startups such as Zong and Boku which has attracted multiple-millions of dollars from top venture [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/04/27/zong-collects-15m-for-mobile-payments/#comment-249416 Fri, 21 May 2010 23:02:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=116264#comment-249416 [...] the mobile payment startup from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey — or Zong, which recently raised $15 million? Thompson said that Square is “a neat little piece of technology that I’m not sure is [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/04/27/zong-collects-15m-for-mobile-payments/#comment-249415 Thu, 13 May 2010 18:07:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=116264#comment-249415 [...] the “underbanked.” Whether it’s payment dongle Square launching this week, Zong raising $15 million late last month on the strength of its virtual goods business on Facebook, or the fact that my [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/04/27/zong-collects-15m-for-mobile-payments/#comment-249414 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:29:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=116264#comment-249414 I’d imagine they will expand. And we’ll see if carriers can hold onto their tithings.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/04/27/zong-collects-15m-for-mobile-payments/#comment-249413 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:51:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=116264#comment-249413 Its a shame that this company is pigeonholed into virtual goods for now. Some of us would love to use mobile payment solutions for their products, and cannot because of the extreme cut that mobile carriers still take from all transactions.

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