6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013: March 19-20, 2013 – Singapore

As Asia’s largest mobile commerce summit event, Neoedge the leading producer of original conferences and workshops for the corporate world, has announced the biggest names in the industry supporting the 6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013 which is happening on the 19-20 March 2013 at the Hotel Novotel...

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...

Mobile Industry Predictions Report: 2012

The Yankee Group has just released its free 17-page 2012 Annual Predictions Report, which looks into what the future has in store for the ever-growing mobility landscape. Overview: The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the protagonist and the subject of this instability....

MNO’s Collaborate to Establish Hungarian Mobile Wallet Association

Hugary’s Magyar Telekom, Telenor and Vodafone have joined with three market leading operators–MasterCard, OTP Bank and SuperShop–to establish the Hungarian Mobile Wallet Association. The aim of the Association is to design and articulate recommendations for mobile NFC service standards in...

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley: Sept. 1, 2011, San Francisco, CA

MOBILE 2.0 Silicon Valley brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. The MOBILE 2.0 Conference is a one day event to be held on ...

UK Mobile Operator Joint Venture Critical for Success in NFC Mobile Payments

The newly announced mobile marketing and mobile payments joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Telefonica O2 and Vodafone in the UK is a positive move, and will enable these mobile operators to secure a position at the heart of the nascent NFC contactless payments...

UK Mobile Companies Plan Mobile Payment Joint Venture

The U.K.’s three biggest wireless operators said Thursday that they would create a mobile-payment joint venture, entering the high-stakes scramble among wireless operators, tech firms and credit-card companies to popularize a way of making purchases with the wave of a cellphone. Vodafone Group PLC,...

Mobile Payments in Afghanistan

When someone in a far-flung rural mountain village in Afghanistan wants to transfer money to family in another part of the country, there are few conventional banking options. A new text-based payment service, backed by the country’s banks and telecom providers, now offers a simpler, more convenient...

Major Mobile Operators Worldwide Announce Commitment to NFC Technology

Many of the world’s leading operators, including América Móvil, Axiata Group Berhad, Bharti, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT Corporation, MTS, Orange, Qtel Group, SK Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telekom Austria Group, Telenor and Vodafone, have voiced their commitment to...

M-PESA Wins “Mobile Money for the Unbanked” Award

Safaricom’s M-PESA has won the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Award at this year’s Global Mobile Awards 2011 which is being held in Barcelona, Spain between February 14th and 17th. The M-PESA service was launched in March 2007. As of the end of 2010, the service had over 13.5 million customers...

Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world’s second-largest measured by subscribers (behind China Mobile), with around 332 million proportionate...

Paybox 3rd Generation “Mobiliser” Product Goes Live

Paybox, a provider of mobile payment enterprise solutions, announced the paybox Mobiliser products, which allow mobile operators and financial service providers worldwide successful market entry into mobile payment and mobile commerce. In developed markets, paybox — beyond mobile person-to-person...