Mobile payments will be 3 times bigger next year

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eMarketer has predicted that by the end of 2016, the usage in the United States market will have tripled. Among the most recent forecasts issued by eMarketer is one that has been of great interest to those in the mobile payments marketplace, as they have now said that the use of these transactions will continue to climb to the point that they will have tripled by the close of next year. This represents a significant growth of the use of smartphones at checkout counters and other points of sale. The…

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Mobile payments may breach the $1 billion mark in 2013

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eMarketer has released its predictions for the United States and they are slower than previously expected. Even though the growth of mobile payments that was expected earlier this year is not panning out to be true, the slow increases that are still being made still might allow transactions to top $1 billion in the United States this year if the latest eMarketer data is correct. Though this may seem as though it is an important milestone this year, it is expected to be far greater in 2017. The eMarketer predictions…

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