Boku, one of the leaders in carrier billing, has finally signed a direct billing deal with Sprint, giving it direct integration with all four major U.S. operators. The broad coverage should make it more appealing to merchants and open up potential sales of non-digital goods.…
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Boku gets $35M in new VC funds to pursue offline payments
Boku, which recently introduced a white label platform called Boku Accounts with Mastercard that allows operators to offer in-store mobile payment services, has received $35 million in new funding from New Enterprise Associates and Telefonica Digital, to help it go after offline payments.…
Read MoreBoku targets carriers with in-store payment system
Boku up until now has been known for enabling carrier billing for online goods. But the San Francisco payment start-up is leaping into the physical world with the launch of a new white label offering for carriers that will include in-store payments.…
Read MoreUpdated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr……
Read MoreBoku’s Eurotrip nets big mobile payment deals
Mobile payments start-up Boku has signed a deal with Telefonica, the huge mobile carrier with almost 300 million subscribers, who will use Boku to power its payment API for BlueVia, its global developer program. It comes a week after Boku secured deals with two French carriers.…
Read MoreBoku Now Powers Carrier Billing For Nearly All Of France
Here's a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators' master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data network……
Read MoreAT&T Tries to Jump-Start Mobile Carrier Billing
AT&T is rolling out a trial of direct carrier billing with Zong, BilltoMobile and Boku. The trial represents the biggest push to date for direct mobile billing, which allows a consumer to buy a product and bill it directly to their wireless bill.…
Read MoreZong Offers Android Devs In-App Purchasing Tool
Developers looking to make a buck on Android in-app purchases will be heartened to hear that Papaya Mobile is the first to deploy Zong's in-app payment system for its social gaming platform. The deal opens a new era for Android developers waiting for in-app purchase solutions.…
Read MoreMobilize 2010: To NFC or Not to NFC
On a panel of mobile payments providers at GigaOM's Mobilize 2010, everyone was happy to agree that mobile payments are finally getting their day in the sun due to the growth of smartphones, mobile application platforms, and the sheer market size of 5 billion phones.…
Read MoreBoku and Zong Launch In-App Android Payments
Zong and Boku, the mobile payments competitors, have found a new place to go head-to-head: the Android platform. Both companies are today announcing trials of support for in-app transactions on the iPhone, billed to users' mobile carriers securely.…
Read MoreBoku Muscles Up With Andreessen Horowitz
Mobile payments are an incredibly promising phenomenon, so much so that the top venture capital firms are lining up against each other for a fight. Now, the teams are basically complete, with newcomer VC firm Andreessen Horowitz taking its spot next to San Francisco-based Boku.…
Read MoreZong Collects $15M for Mobile Payments
Here's a company you should be paying attention to, if you're not already: Zong, the mobile payments startup, said today it's raised $15 million in a round led by Matrix Partners and is now fully spun off from Switzerland-based Echovox.…
Read MoreBoku Raises $25 Million To Expand Mobile Payments Services
San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can……
Read MoreBoku Upgrades Mobile Payments Platform; Adds 12 New Publisher Partners
Mobile payments provider Boku is gaining traction, seemingly evolving into the chosen platform for social and casual gaming companies that w……
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