Tag: credit card mobile payments

QR codes used by MasterCard along with NFC technology

Stephanie Beck
NFC Mobile Payments Mastercard QR Code PayPass MasterPass

The credit card giant has announced its latest MasterPass strategy for mobile payments. MasterCard has just announced the addition of a new digital service called MasterPass, which will give consumers the ability to use any of several different technologies, including QR codes, for making purchases with mobile payments. This service is meant to enhance the shopping experience whether it occurs in-store or online. The MasterPass service is meant to bring greater simplicity to shoppers who carry smartphones, by allowing a mobile payment to be made with the ease of a…

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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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New research shows that PayPal is central to mobile commerce

Julie Campbell
Paypal Mobile Payments

Newly released ShopVisible research findings show that 67 percent use the online payment option. SIIA CODiE Awards winner of the best ecommerce solution of 2012, ShopVisible, has released the results of the research that it conducted over a 60 day period, involving the analysis of 23,000 online and mobile transactions, which showed that 67 percent of smartphone and tablet consumers are using PayPal or other alternative payment methods. Only 33 percent are using traditional credit cards to make their mobile commerce purchases. Equally, though, among consumers shopping over their desktops,…

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