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Retail Sales to experience boost from QR codes and image recognition technology

03/05/201203/05/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

Mobile Money Network (MMN) has announced the release of its first QR code and fully transactional image recognition service within its Simply Tap instant mobile checkout. The introduction of the service is beginning alongside a Thorntons promotion that uses outdoor advertising. A number of posters are being displayed in various locations around central London, featuring an Easter egg that permits users of Simply Tap to give the technology a try and to purchase one of a number of different Easter eggs for a penny each. Sipmly Tap is MMN’s instant…

Girl Scouts partner with Sage Mobile Payments to offer additional cookie purchase option

03/03/201203/02/2012 Stephanie Beck

Troops of Girl Scouts in 23 states are now able to accept payments over mobile devices for their cookie sales now that they are using Sage North America’s Mobile Payments platform. The mobile payment platform company announced its partnership with a number of Girl Scout Councils across the United States in order to allow their troops to offer mobile payments as an option while the girls sell their cookies. So far, there are 32 Girl Scout Councils among those 23 states that are using this option. This translates to approximately…

Amex and Globe GCASH partner for online payment solution development

03/02/201203/02/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

Philippine telco giant Globe Telecom m-commerce subsidiary, G-Xchange, Inc., has announced that it is beginning a partnership with global payment and network services giant, American Express, in order to create a new online payment solution. This solution will be designed to allow smartphone owners to use their Globe GCASH mobile wallet to purchase apps, movies, music, and games, as well as other goods and services from American and British websites that accept American Express, such as for toys, clothing, and electronics. This will allow people in the Philippines to shop…

VeriFone announces release of new PAYMEDIA Universal Acceptance Platform

02/29/201202/29/2012 Jennifer Goula

VeriFone Systems, Inc. has unveiled their new PAYMEDIA Universal Acceptance Platform (UAP), which is designed to offer a full service and software suite which will give mobile network operators (MNOs) the ability to manage the acceptance of mobile wallets at merchant systems. PAYMEDIA UAP was developed to complete the circuit between merchants and mobile wallet providers, so that they have everything that is necessary for providing customers with advanced mobile couponing, promotions, and mobile payment apps. It makes certain that that the transactions from all types of mobile wallet will…

Visa announces payWave mobile payments provisioning service

02/29/201202/29/2012 Sam Lambert

Visa has unveiled a new level to their mobile payment system, payWave, which will provide an over-the-air smartphone provisioning service. The announcement was made in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, and according to the company, this new service is designed to make it simpler for banks, operators, and transit operators to connect a consumer’s smartphone with Visa payment accounts. Though consumers may not find this quite as thrilling as the release of apps for a mobile wallet, what Visa has now released what they feel is a primary element…