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Mobile payments may be coming to WeChat

05/07/201305/06/2013 Jennifer Goula

The next version of the service is rumored to include smartphone transactions and paid publishing. It is already known for certain that the popular social messaging app, WeChat, from Tencent, will soon include a social gaming platform, but the latest rumor is that mobile payments will also be included in the mix. This is one of the three major features that Guan Peng is predicting for the application. Peng, an industry analyst, has said that the next WeChat app update, the v5.0 for Android and iPhone, will support three considerable…

Mobile payments could be Amazon’s next big step

04/22/201304/20/2013 L. Green

A new solution may be introduced by the internet retailer according to recent filings made by the company. Though nothing official has been announced just yet, the mobile payments industry believes that Amazon is preparing to release its own platform that will offer a solution similar to GoPayment, PayAnywhere, or Square. This assumption has been made based on recent official filings that have been made by Amazon. The filing that has drawn the attention of the mobile payments world to Amazon was made with the United States Patent and Trademark…

Mobile payments at Facebook include carrier billing

11/20/201211/19/2012 Stephanie Beck

The social network hopes the new agreement with Orange France and Bango will boost its ability to monetize. Leading social network, Facebook, has announced its latest mobile payments news with its new steps to accept payments in France for its virtual services such as game credits and gifts in its content based on HTML5. These purchases can now be billed directly to the smartphone user’s wireless bill. This provides the user with another mobile payments option other than credit cards or premium SMS. France is not the first country to…