Tag: pay with phone

Mobile payments using credit cards launched for first time in Canada

Julie Campbell
Mobile Payments

CIBC and Rogers Communications have unveiled this smartphone friendly service. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and Rogers Communications have unveiled the first mobile payments program using credit cards in Canada. The service will become available at participating Tim Horton’s coffee shop locations. Beginning on November 16, the new Mobile Payments App will be available to CIBC credit card and Rogers Wireless customers, who have certain BlackBerry smartphone models. To start, it will be possible to use the service through the BlackBerry Bold 9900 or the Curve 8360. The…

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Google Wallet finding a place in pilot programs

L. Green
Jack in the Box Mobile Payments

Google Wallet has seen a slow start so far, but it is starting to catch on with some big name businesses in their pilot programs to test the value of its use. Jack in the Box has announced that it will be trying the mobile payment service in 35 of its restaurant locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. This makes the restaurant chain one of the first quick service restaurants (QSR) to give Google Wallet an active pilot trial. Subway was the first to make this step and is…

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Mobile Pay processes over 20 million mobile payments so far in 2011for Starbucks

John Montgallo
Starbucks Mobile Payments

Mobile Pay, the mobile payment application at Starbucks that allows customers to pay for their purchases using their smartphones has been in place in the United States since January 2011, has now passed the 20 million mark in terms of the number of payment transactions that it has processed so far. This has made Mobile Pay by far the most successful implementation of a mobile payment program in the United States, having easily beaten out the biggest competition, including Square and Google. The mobile payment system is available at approximately…

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Google begins new mobile payment partnership with New Jersey Transit

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile Wallet

Google has entered into a new partnership with New Jersey Transit to allow its riders to use their mobile phones to tap and pay for their commute on busses and railways. This agreement makes NJ Transit the first public transportation company to take a step into the brand new Google Wallet program, which is still in its infancy. To start, commuters will be able to use Google Wallet at the ticket vending machine windows at certain bus routes, New York Penn Station, and at Newark Liberty International Airport Railway Station.…

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