Articles tagged with: Mobile Payments

South Korea to Tighten Mobile Payments Security

­South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has announced plans to tighten the country's online and mobile payment system.  more

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KFC to Start Mobile Payments Trial in the UK

­The UK fast-food chain, KFC is launching a mobile app for making purchases and food orders, based on a platform supplied by Airtag.  more

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T-Mobile Customers Spend Over 1 Billion Czech Crowns on Mobile Payments

­T-Mobile's Czech Republic customers spent more than a billion Czech crowns using their phones for mobile payments for the first time last year, the company has announced.  more

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Mobile Payment Transactions May Reach $1 Trillion by 2015

­The mobile payment industry is growing, offering revenue generating solutions throughout the market and potentially generation $1 trillion in global transactions by 2015, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading Mobile Networks Insider.  more

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Vibe Mobile Wallet Launches in St. Louis

­A USA based mobile payments service provider for restaurants, FreedomPay says that it has launched its services with retailers in the city of St. Louis on the eve of their Missouri Restaurant Association Inaugural Ball.  more

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Majority of Americans Foresee Smartphone Payments Replacing Cards and Cash

­A combined 13% of Americans indicate that they have either paid for consumer services using a mobile, (4%) or witnessed it firsthand (8%), with predictably stronger experience levels among smartphone owners (18%, 7% and 11%, respectively).  more

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PCCW to Start NFC Mobile Payments in Hong Kong Next Year

­PCCW mobile has become the first mobile operator to announce co-operation with a bank in Hong Kong to provide mobile payment services using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.  more

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UK Mobile Payments Venture Gets New Brandname

­The UK mobile payments joint venture between O2, Vodafone and EE (T-Mobile/Orange) has revealed that it is to be branded as "Weve".  more

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US Networks Start NFC Based Mobile Payments Trial

­A month later than originally planned, the USA based mobile payments service, Isis has launched its initial trials in Austin and Salt Lake City.  more

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Proximity Mobile Payments Set to Explode in USA

­Proximity mobile payments are not yet very popular in the USA -- eMarketer estimates that such point-of-sale payments using a mobile phone as a payment device, whether via near-field communications or other contactless technology, will total just US$640 million this year. But that's an increase of 283% over last year's even smaller base, and a number that will rise a further 234% by the end of next year.  more

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