Three Reasons Your Business Needs to Accept Mobile Payments

The Internet has clearly made it easier for small businesses to be successful and reach customers. Being able to start and maintain a business without the need for an expensive brick-and-mortar storefront has provided the catalyst for small businesses to grow much faster, reach customers, make a profit, and...

U.S. Bank now letting customers snap photos of their bills for automatic mobile payment | The Verge

By now, using your smartphone for check deposits has almost become old hat. U.S. Bank is looking to take the next step in conjoining gadgets and financial accounts with the launch of Mobile Photo BillPay. The feature, which the bank says is the first of its kind, lets customers snap a photo of a bill, after...

Mobile Stocks to Watch: NVIDIA

NVIDIA might seem like an odd choice for investors looking to profit from the mobile boom. After all, of all things, its bread-and-butter product is graphics processors found in PCs. How can a company reliant on PCs be anything but a sitting duck for the coming mobile revolution? In the case of NVIDIA,...

Mobile Payment Potential is Really About … Coupons

There’s been a lot of talk lately about mobile payments and how new apps or NFC technology will let you pay for things with your smartphone. But the truth is that this market is less about finding a new way for you to pay for things and more about offering you an easier way to carry and redeem coupons...

Kuapay Expands to New York City

Kuapay, an intuitive mobile payment solution that incorporates coupons, reward cards and loyalty cards, announced today the availability of its mobile payments application to New York City merchants. The service is currently enjoying considerable success with southern California merchants across multiple...

Walmart Tests iPhone App for Scanning Purchases for Checkout

Wal-Mart Stores Inc is testing a system that would allow shoppers to scan items using their iPhones and then pay at a self-checkout counter, a move that could trim checkout times and slash costs for retailers. If the "Scan & Go" test by the world’s largest retailer is successful, it has...

moneto Enhances Mobile Payment Program with Product Upgrades and New Features

Richardson, TX (PRWEB) August 28, 2012 Moneto, a multi-platform Near Field Communication (NFC) based mobile payment service for iPhone and Android, announced today various enhancements that add to the unique program. The upgraded program comes equipped with new products, additional features, more handset...

Starbucks Launches Mobile App for Android in UK and Canada

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced the continued global expansion of the Starbucks mobile platform with the roll-out of Starbucks® app for Android™ to the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition, U.S. customers who download or update to the official Starbucks® app for Android™ will be able to...

Contactless Payments Landscape

By John Rozek – Contactless cards have been hailed as the “next big thing” in the payments industry. With more than 17 million contactless cards already in circulation and 75,000 points of sale across the UK, it’s easy to see why many in the industry believe we are reaching a ‘tipping...

KOBIL Systems mIDentity App Security Toolkit Secures Any Online Mobile Application

KOBIL Systems, a provider of mobile IT security and digital identity solutions, introduced the new mIDentity App Security Toolkit, (mID AST), which protects mobile users from multiple security attacks. Kobil’s core product is mIDentity, a smardcard-reader in the shape of a USB-stick. With mIDentity, a user...

PayPal Mobile Payments – $4 Billion in 2011

If you need one example that epitomizes the massive potential in mobile payments, you need only look at PayPal. The online payment company racked up nearly $4 billion worth of mobile payments last year, a huge jump from $750 million in 2010. Read more, via...

Visa Certifies Samsung, LG and Blackberry Smartphones as Visa payWave Mobile Payment Devices

Visa Inc. and Visa Europe today announced that NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Research In Motion (RIM) have been certified for use with Visa’s mobile application for payments at the point-of-sale, Visa payWave. The Samsung Galaxy SII, LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry ...

Best Hidden Stocks for Near Field Communication (NFC)

Near-field communications, or NFC, is a technology that allows communication over very short distances — typically just a few centimeters. Using a smartphone, a user can touch the phone to an NFC tag and immediately be connected to a website, dial a phone number, or launch an app to show information...

Collective POS Launches Mobile Payment Solution for Apple, Blackberry and Android Smartphone Devices

Collective Point of Sale Solutions, a Canadian provider of payment processing services, has launched VirtualMerchant Mobile, a mobile P.O.S solution that allows small and medium-sized businesses to process credit card payments using an existing smartphone device. “We worked very hard to deliver a...

Consumers Union Warns About Mobile Payment Security

Most cell phone and tablet users can purchase digital goods and charge them to their monthly bill or prepaid phone account. But they may not get the protections they need to limit their financial liability if something goes wrong with the transaction. The protections consumers receive will vary...

Nokia Launches Mobile Wallet in India

The Finish mobile giant has launched its Nokia Money service. The service saw pan-India launch and can be used on any mobile.  The Nokia Money platform allows you to do number of financial transactions such as payments for utility bills, tickets, top-ups and insurance premiums that can be...

PayByPhone Adds NFC Mobile Payments for San Francisco Parking Meters

PayByPhone, an international provider of systems for parking and urban mobility payments, today announced one of the largest deployments of near field communications (NFC) payment solutions in the world. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which selected the PayByPhone mobile payment...

Isis Selects Gemalto for NFC and Mobile Payment Services

Gemalto has been selected by Isis to secure its mobile commerce platform through Gemalto’s Allynis Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution. Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, will provide consumers and...

Google Wallet and the New Payment Ecosystem

When the Google Wallet launched on September 20, 2011, the first test of a remarkable new financial ecosystem began. But despite the apparent success of traditional mobile payments products like M-PESA in Kenya and South Africa, Google and rival Isis have decided to rewrite the business model – and...

Analyst Cites eBay as Strong Investment Opportunity in Mobile Payments

eBay provides one of the best investment opportunities to take advantage of the growth of mobile payments, according to Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. “We believe PayPal will capitalize on its superior position in mobile payments extending its 25 percent to 30 percent growth, turning into...