American Express launches Serve mobile payments platform on Android and Apple app stores.
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Mobile payments to get a boost from Google
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Verified by Visa is preventing mobile commerce claims Mobgets
Alternative app platform Mobgets is getting hot under the collar about Verified by Visa and its incompatibility with mobiles and smartphones. Independant mobile app platform Mobgets are very very angry with Verified by Visa; they’ve been complaining for 12 months and now they’re threatening a “case against both the banks and Verified by Visa for…
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Nearly half of active mobile users want to pay via mobile
More and more users worldwide are expressing a desire to pay for goods on their mobile and are willing to ignore their concerns over security. China leads the way with almost one in two having bought something via mobile in the last six months. New research by Accenture shows that nearly half (45%) of the…
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Starbucks rolls out mobile payments in the US
Seattle based coffee store Starbucks is to roll out a mobile payment service to over 7,800 stores in the US. Starbucks has been piloting a mobile payments system since September 2009 in stores in Seattle and Silicon Valley and they’re so happy with the results they’re rolling out the system to all the 6,800 stores…
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Visa confirms iPhone payment service
As we reported a few weeks ago Visa will be launching a NFC (Near Field Communication) add-on for the iPhone to allow iPhone users to simply flash their phone to pay for goods, get into buildings, and travel. The Visa device is an external case that plugs into the bottom of the iPhone via the…
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Mobile Payments Market to Quadruple by 2014 to £418bn
The Mobile Payments Markets: Strategies & Forecasts 2010-2014 from Juniper Research predicts that the value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach almost £418bn by 2014, up from £113bn in 2010. With the top three regions for mobile payments (Far East & China, W.…