Top Mobile Payment Solutions without Startup Costs

The ability to process credit cards using a mobile device is gaining well-deserved attention across the credit card processing industry. Joseph Brady, an avid entrepreneur in various industries since 2006 and featured writer for BizOffice.com, recently updated business owners on the available mobile...

NFC Payments USA: Nov. 2-3, 2011, Miami, FL

NFC Payments USA conference and Exhibition has been developed to offer you industry professionals a clear path to develop NFC payments as a commercial proposition and to provide attendees with the contacts to do so. Finally meet the contacts and partners you need: This is the first opportunity for North...

U.S. Advanced Payment Summit: Nov. 28-29, 2011, Washington, DC

The US Advanced Payments Summit (Nov 28-29, 2011, Washington D.C) is the only place to meet industry leaders with cutting edge innovations and strategies in mobile and contactless, government and transit payments. With over 75 senior payments speakers from the fastest growing sectors, this is the best...

Chinese Company B.Shark to Extend Mobile Payment Offering to Physical Goods

Years ago, operator billing was only applied for value-added services such as ringtones, ring back tones, wallpaper, news, music, and the like. Later it was applied to other fields such as mobile games, game tools and the mobile application market. Now, operator billing is extending to more and more fields,...

Google Wallet and Retail NFC Mobile Payments Ignite Buzz, Says ABI Research

Recent developments in contactless payment technology are generating renewed interest, and suggest that the long-delayed dream of comprehensive contactless payment systems may finally be approaching reality. The introduction of Google Wallet and the expectation that several new NFC-enabled smartphones will...

B.Shark Holds Forum on Who Will Play a Leading Roll in Mobile Payments

B.Shark, a Chinese company offering worldwide mobile payment solutions, recently collaborated with SPforum, the largest microblog dedicated to the Mobile Internet industry in China, to hold a forum about who will play the leading role in worldwide mobile payments. The discussion was lively, and experts from...

Mobile Payment Startups

Venmo was founded by under 30-year-old entrepreneurs Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail in Philadelphia. Fewer people carry cash these days and Kortina and Magdon-Ismail saw this as an opportunity to tackle the simple problem that comes with paying back friends and family while on-the-go. Venmo lets...

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...

Hypercom Mobile Payments Terminal to be Marketed by Avant-Garde Marketing Solutions

Hypercom Corporation today announced that Avant-Garde Marketing Solutions, Inc., an independent sales organizations,  is now marketing Hypercom’s Optimum M4230 multi-application mobile payment terminal and Mobile Network service to its thousands of merchant...

Worldwide Mobile Payment Volume Up 76% to Reach $86 Billion in 2011

Worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141.1 million in 2011, a 38.2 percent increase from 2010, when mobile payment users reached 102.1 million, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide mobile payment volume is forecast to total $86.1 billion, up 75.9 percent from 2010 volume of $48.9 billion. Despite...

The Future of Online and Mobile Payments Report

A new report, entitled “The Future of Online Mobile Payments” has been announced by Report Linker. The report provides an overview of the global online and mobile payments industry, examining the industry in terms of market size, its segments, evolution of the industry, geographic segmentation,...

Banks Feeling Threat of Alternative Mobile Payment Providers, Says Report

Faced with growing competitive threats from non-traditional sources, such as alternative payment providers, banks around the world have aggressively swung their attention to emerging mobile platforms to defend their payments revenues, according to a new report from KPMG International. Adding to the...

40% of US Mobile-Equiped Consumers Embrace Mobile Banking, Says Report

A recent online survey of more than 2,000 respondents by YouGov Plc. and Antenna Software, Inc., showed that more than one in three US consumers with mobile phones, smartphones and tablets currently use mobile banking.  This presents both a major growth opportunity for retail banks to increase their...