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Mobile payments experience notable boost with PayPal partnership with Discover

08/30/201208/29/2012 L. Green

The credit card and online transaction company will now be working together. The world of mobile payments has added a new level of drama with the partnership that has just been announced between Discover and PayPal. This has added yet another level to the explosion in the marketplace where smartphones replace cards. Although there have been regular changes to the mobile payments world as this market emerges, until now, there hasn’t been a single announcement that is quite as powerful as this one in terms of providing a competitive advantage…

Isis and Google clash for supremacy of the mobile commerce industry

09/06/201109/06/2011 Stephen Vagus

With the launch of Google’s much hyped Google Wallet mobile payment platform, the tech-giant may be confronted with some stiff opposition. Isis, a coalition of telecommunications companies that are bent ruling the mobile commerce industry, continues to gain momentum amongst financial service companies upon whom the fate of mobile payments rests. The companies behind Isis—Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile – recently invested more than $100 million into the project in the hopes of expanding the reach of the platform. The investment seems to be paying off as a number of…