Mobile Payment Strategies Report: Opportunities & Markets 2011-2015

A new study from Juniper Research has determined that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach $670bn by 2015, up from $240bn this year. These forecasts represent the gross merchandise value of all purchases...

Research Report: Positioning for Payments in the New Mobile-Social Technology Era

We are at the beginning of a new technology cycle as consumer adoption of mobile and social media extends the reach of the web and integrates those media into the physical world. Facebook is only eight years old, and yet its planned $5 billion IPO is the largest Internet IPO ever. As in every new technology...

Mobile Banking and Payments Report: The Role of the Mobile Phone as a Banking Device

With over 2 billion users worldwide, mobile phone usage penetrates every core demographic of the world’s population. Research and Markets has announced the release of a new report entitled “ Mobile Banking and Payments.” The report assesses the role of the mobile phone as a...

Payment Methods for Chinese Social Networking Service (SNS) Games Exported to Southeast Asian Market

As Chinese game developers rush to explore the overseas market, game operation as well as in-game payment systems have become a hot topic for game developers. Chinese game developers are running their games in the overseas markets in a number of ways: First, through massive global social networks, such as...

Facebook Plans to Acquire Mature Mobile Startups, Says CTO

With its newly replenished cash hoard, Facebook plans to acquire mature mobile start-up companies to work toward its goal of being a platform company, according to Facebook CTO Bret Taylor. “We’re really focused on acquisitions,” Taylor said at the Inside Social Apps conference at UC San Francisco on...

Mobile Payments Research Report 2011: Battle in a Fragmented Market

Research and Markets  has announced the addition of the “Mobile Payments – A Battle of Giants in a Fragmented Market” report to their offering. This study spotlights the mobile payment market, provides details about the related services and their technological aspects,...

Will Facebook Disrupt Mobile Payment Business?

Facebook may be seeing positive cashflow and excellent rates of growth, but it’s also dismally unprofitable considering the size of its user base. That gives it the impetus for an all-out mobile payments push. It’s already primed for success: with about 100 million active users in the U.S., it already...

Mopay Forecasts Major Growth for Mobile Payments Industry in 2011

mopay, a payment solutions provider for online merchants, forecasts major momentum and movement in the global mobile payments industry in 2011. mopay has identified several trends to watch in 2011 that will have a significant impact on the burgeoning mobile payments industry, including massive growth of the...

U.S. Mobile Payment Market to Top $200 Billion by 2015, Says Research Report

A recent report from Aite Group forecasts that U.S. mobile bill payments will reach more than $200  billion in 2015. Aite Group interviewed more than 60 companies in the Fall of 2010 and produced a 65 page report that defines and segments the mobile payment industry, and includes an analysis of the...

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