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Tom Krazit
Sep 27, 2011 5:00 AM
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment and hype behind the idea of using one’s mobile phone as a method of payment, but it’s pretty clear that the details of how any one company or…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Jul 25, 2011 5:40 PM
How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are another 400 to 500 daily deal sites in the U.S., plus 200 more internationally—and very few people think the world needs that many. Expect plenty of consolidation in the next…
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Tom Krazit
Jul 19, 2011 2:05 PM
The mobile payments scene got a little more complicated Tuesday, as the big traditional credit card companies joined the Isis mobile payments consortium run by AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon, and T-Mobile in what might be a hedging move by Mastercard, a launch partner for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Wallet. The move…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jun 16, 2011 6:22 AM
Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet services to its customers, in the hopes of finally kick-starting a service that has been long on discussion but painfully short on execution up to…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jun 9, 2011 6:17 AM
Visa is getting a lot more serious about mobile payments, and significantly it’s not just putting its efforts and investments in developing markets with their fancy, NFC-enabled smartphones and high-tech points of sale. Today it announced that it has purchased Fundamo, a mobile payments startup that focusses on solutions or…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 20, 2011 6:27 AM
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch a long-awaited NFC payment service; Verizon gets its first Windows Phone 7 device; and is the first 4G iPhone going to appear in China?
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Ingrid Lunden
May 6, 2011 6:52 AM
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Facebook inside” feature; T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) warning of challenging times ahead; Visa to refresh its mobile payments strategy.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 27, 2011 2:20 PM
Visa has invested an undisclosed sum in mobile payments firm Square in what the companies are describing as a “strategic investment.” Square provides businesses with a card reader they can attach to their mobile phones so that they can accept credit cards on the go, and the investment suggests that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 15, 2010 6:26 AM
—Apple/Google/Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Nortel: This one is still a work in progress… Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Nokia are reportedly among the companies bidding for patents being sold by the bankrupt Nortel Networks. In all, the company had around 4,000 patents, estimated to be worth some $1…
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 13, 2009 5:09 PM
Visa has teamed with Malaysian operator Maxis and bank Maybank to launch a Near Field Communications (NFC) service using the credit card company’s payWave technology. The service is dubbed Maxis FastTap and lets customers pay by waving the handset in front of a contactless reader, as well as pay for…
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Tricia Duryee
Sep 25, 2008 11:08 AM
Visa said the U.S. isn’t ready to start using their phones to make payments in stores, like people do in Japan, but they preparing to launch new services, including alerts and location-based offers that will launch shortly on the first Android phones, Reuters reports. Additionally, the credit card company said…
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