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PhonePe mobile payments company gets $200 million investment from Walmart

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile payments - Walmart logo on cell phone

The Indian company raised the funds as a component of an ongoing round. PhonePe, a mobile payments giant from India, has announced that an investment from Walmart has brought it another $200 million in funding as a part of an ongoing round that has already helped it bring in $650 million. The funding has arrived regardless of the economic downturn. PhonePe has been bringing in funds too help build itself up in the face of its upcoming separation from Flipkart, its parent company. Walmart already owns the majority of the…

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Paytm now enabled for third party UPI app mobile payments

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile payments - Person using payment app

The Indian company has now officially announced the implementation of this new app feature. Paytm, a mobile payments company from India, has announced that it has implemented a new feature making it possible to make UPI transactions to phones registered with third party UPI applications. The goal of the feature is to make it faster and easier for users to complete money transfers. By using this new feature, Paytm users can use the mobile payments app to complete money transfers quickly and easily when sending to any phone number, even…

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Apple leads in mobile wallets use but not in total purchases

John Montgallo
Mobile wallets - Payment with iPhone

The iPhone’s payment app has been around for 8 years, and adoption has been rising quickly. The Apple Pay has been available in the mobile wallets category for 8 years as of 2022 and while it did have a slow start – as did many others in that category – but it has started picking up. In the United States, adoption of all phone-based digital payment methods has been slow. The report “Apple Pay at 8: Connected-Tech Consumers Lead the Way” issued by PYMNTS showed that even though more than…

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Contactless mobile payments collaboration forms between CTBC Bank and Soft Space

Stephanie Beck
Contactless mobile payments - Paying with wearable device

The partnership will work as a system used by Taiwanese taxis to make it easier to charge fares. CTBC Bank, based in Taiwan, has entered into a partnership with Soft Space, a fintech from Malaysia, to launch a contactless mobile payments system to be used by cab drivers to collect taxi fares. The system will allow customers with Android smartphones and NFC technology to tap to pay. The contactless mobile payments system will be powered by Soft Space so that Android phone users can pay for their cab rides using…

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Infineon combines near field communication and system-on-chip for keyless lock

L. Green
Near field Communication - Unlocking door with mobile phone

The NFC technology and SoC have been paired in what the company is calling a first ever tech. Semiconductor manufacturing company Infineon has unveiled a new keyless lock device that works on near field communication (NFC) and system-on-chip (SoC) technology. The combination makes it possible to unlock padlocks, doors and other locks with mobile phones. According to the company, the future of building security might involve removing keys from the mix altogether. It has developed a security solution that requires neither keys nor batteries to make it possible to lock…

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