Square on Wednesday started taking pre-orders for a new version of its Reader and an accessory for Square Stand that will allow its mobile payments service to accept new chip-embedded cards being issued in the U.S. next year.…
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Updated: A debit card for bitcoin: Xapo could solve the payment problem with help from banks
Until now, there has been no easy way for people to use bitcoin for everyday transactions. Xapo has solved that by using MasterCard's payment network.…
Read MoreFirst they came for the mugshot websites, but I said nothing…
Google has made a change to its search algorithm to downgrade sites that post mugshot photos, but this decision raises some troubling questions about how much we rely on Google to choose what we see and don't see…
Read MoreGoogle goes after mug shot sites
Sites that post mug shots humiliate people and damage their career prospects -- and engage in a form of blackmail by demanding people pay to take them down. Google, MasterCard and others are starting to respond.…
Read MoreSumUp adds American Express to its mobile point-of-sale terminal roster
The mobile payments company says it now supports more cards in more countries than any of its many rivals, which include Square, iZettle, Payleven, Adyen and mPowa.…
Read MoreMasterCard and Deutsche Telekom team up to push NFC payments
MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership today that will bring NFC contactless payments to DT's 93 million mobile customers in Europe. That puts more momentum behind NFC payments and potentially sets up 2013 as a big break-out year for contactless payments.…
Read MoreMasterCard expands PayPass wallet service into a platform
MasterCard is expanding its mobile payment service PayPass into a larger platform called PayPass Wallet Services that will enable PayPal-like online payments and will include APIs for developers to integrate their payment apps and services with PayPass.…
Read MoreBonaYou’s social-gifting Mastercard scheme gets funding
BonaYou, which lets people send prepaid Mastercards as gifts to their Facebook friends, has just received cash to help it expand across Europe this year…
Read MoreMasterCard starts piloting QkR mobile payment app
MasterCard is rolling out the first trial of its QkR mobile application, which allows people to interact and initiate payments via QR codes, NFC tags and other technologies. It is allowing Australian movie goers to order and pay for food from their seat.…
Read MoreMFoundry raises $18M from MasterCard, Intel for mobile payments
MFoundry has emerged as a leader in mobile banking, providing its Software-as-a-Service model to almost 600 banks, credit unions and other financial institutions. Now it's raising $18 million from MasterCard, Intel Capital and others to expand its mobile banking business into mobile payments.…
Read MoreMasterCard, mFoundry let banks create their own NFC mobile wallet
MasterCard and mFoundry are poised to help banks launch potentially hundreds of NFC-based mobile wallets with a new partnership that will allow banks that use mFoundry for mobile banking apps to add support for contactless PayPass payments, turning those mobile banking apps into digital wallets.…
Read More@ CTIA: Credit-Card Companies See No Limit On Mobile Payments
If it seems like the mobile world has been talking nonstop about the potential for mobile payments all year, it's because we have been. Ther……
Read MoreMasterCard engages the senses with mobile payment tech
MasterCard showed off a handful of projects Thursday that highlighted how it can leverage mobile phones to encourage shopping using a variety of technologies, from QR codes and NFC to audio signals and also motion control. The technology could be out on the market in months.…
Read MoreWhere The Daily Deal Business Is Headed
How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are anothe……
Read MoreFour Major Credit Card Companies Joining Isis Mobile Payments Group
The mobile payments scene got a little more complicated Tuesday, as the big traditional credit card companies joined the Isis mobile payment……
Read MoreCredit card companies sign-up & back operator NFC platform
Isis, the carrier led near NFC mobile payment platform, revamped its approach this spring in favor of a more open system that invited credit card companies to join its digital wallet. Today, Isis announced that it's signed up Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover as partners.…
Read MoreGoogle Wallet: An Interesting Solution To A Problem That Doesn’t Exist?
The early contender for the all-hype-no-action award so far in 2011 has been mobile payments, and while it still won't be available until la……
Read MoreGoogle Launches its Wallet Platform To Jumpstart NFC Payments
Google launched its big push into mobile payments with the introduction of a new payment platform called Google Wallet based NFC technology. The company said it will pair contactless payments with Google Offers to help retailers and merchants strengthen their ties to consumers.…
Read MoreMobile Lowdown 5-20-11: More Apple Cloud; NFC UK; iPhone China; WP7 Verizon
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch……
Read MoreMasterCard Starts Mobile Provisioning for NFC
Making wireless payments using near field communications just became a little easier for customers of Carta Worldwide, a global payment solutions provider that is the first company to integrate with MasterCard's Mobile Over-the-Air Provisioning Service. Could NFC payments arrive sooner rather than later as a result?…
Read MoreCredit Card Cos: Who’s Doing What in Mobile Payments?
Visa's investment in Square is the latest move by big credit card companies to better position themselves for the coming mobile payments boom. The companies need to stay active in this market or risk being bypassed. We look at the efforts of the big three.…
Read MoreOrange Finally Gives Green Light For NFC In The UK
Looks like it is all coming together for mobile NFC, the technology that lets people buy things by simply waving a mobile handset at a point……
Read MoreMasterCard Hires Orange Exec To Run Its Mobile Business
With news that RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might be joining the still-small ranks of handsets makers putting NFC chips into its devices, there is incre……
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.…
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