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Mobile payments at Starbucks approaching a weekly 4 million transactions
The use of the application is becoming a regular part of the daily experience for customers. Starbucks is continuing to report very impressive numbers for the use of mobile payments in its cafes, as the use of the related app becomes a regular part of the customer experience in its locations. The latest reports have shown that analysts are also continuing to find this success highly appealing. Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, spoke with analysts last week … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commercial, International, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payments, Trends, United States
Mobile payments may be waiting for iPhones before they take off
Industry experts think that the market may not fulfill its potential until Apple fully joins in. Although it is expected that 2012 will have seen an increase of 70 percent in the mobile payments marketplace by its close, it is also believed that the rate of growth will be significantly higher when Apple makes its way into the mix. By the year 2016, it is predicted that the global volume will have reached over 400 million. New players … Read entire article »
Filed under: International, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Commerce Security, Mobile Payments, Trends, United States
Mobile payments launched by Groupon
The group buying program company has just announced its entry into the market. Groupon Inc. has revealed its first steps into the mobile payments marketplace as it launched its Groupon Payments service, which allows companies to accept credit card transactions from users of the iPod Touch or iPhone. While the system is compatible with virtually any credit card, it is concentrating on Groupon deals. The program is also allowing other companies to use the mobile payments service as … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payments, Trends, United States
Bump Pay app allows smartphone owners to exchange funds
Bump Pay, the second app by Bump Labs, has brought the company into the mobile payments market, allowing its users to tap their phones together in order to exchange money. The Bump Pay app has been developed based on the core technology of the company, which gives two smartphones the ability to transfer data to one another simply by tapping them together. This differs from near field communication (NFC) – which is the foundation of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payments
Google makes new fee-splitting offer to carriers to increase adoption of Google Wallet
Though Google Wallet found its start last year to launch that company’s entry into the mobile payments sphere, the service has failed to take off as expected, due to the large amount of competition and its reliance on NFC technology, which remains limited among handsets. In order to overcome some of the struggles presented by those hurdles, reports are indicating that Google has been considering making cost sharing offers to carriers such as AT&T and Verizon … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Payments, Trends
Mac World report shows Apple’s mobile payment market share is growing
According to a Mac World report, has shown that a growing number of companies are entering into the rush to be able to process credit cards over mobile, and as they develop their own hardware and apps to accomplish this goal, the majority of them are basing their efforts on Apple’s iOS platform. It has been speculated that the reason for this is that the Apple mobile products represent the largest market share, and because the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payments
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