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In the wake of strong growth in its mobile-payments business, PayPal Inc. on Tuesday made available an upgraded Android app that includes a widget for person-to-person payments using near-field communication (NFC) technology. The launch represents the San Jose, Calif.-based e-commerce processor’s first live product based on NFC, a short-range …
Read More »Square’s Latest Enhancement for Card Case Aligns with Hands-Free Trend
Square Inc. on Wednesday introduced an enhancement to its Card Case wallet application that detects when a user is near a participating store and automatically links the user’s phone to the store’s Square account. By relying on this method, which the San Francisco startup calls automatically opening a tab, the …
Read More »Aiming to Smooth In-Store Mobile Transactions, VeriFone Buys Global Bay
Extending itself further into mobile retailing and software, VeriFone Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced it has acquired 9-year-old Global Bay Media Technologies, a South Plainfield, N.J., vendor of in-store mobile solutions. Terms of the deal, which had already closed by the time of the announcement, were not disclosed. The acquisition …
Read More »Acquirers Fret That PayPal/Square Model Masks Risk, Poses Competitive Threat
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Read More »Apriva Poised to Offer a Mobile Wallet Aimed at Guarding Acquirers from ‘Outsiders’
The mobile-wallet race, which has attracted a slew of entrants in recent months, is about to get more crowded on fears that established merchant acquirers could be elbowed out of the nascent mobile-payments business. Apriva Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based provider of wireless technology for payments, will launch in November …
Read More »New Jersey Transit Hops on the Google Wallet Train
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Read More »PayPal Forecasts $3.5 Billion in ’11 Mobile Traffic While NFC Simmers
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Read More »PayPal Getting “Steak Ready Before the Sizzle” on POS Moves, eBay Boss Says
PayPal Inc. will pilot its latest move to the point of sale with an undisclosed merchant this quarter, add more merchants early in 2012, and establish merchant pricing for the service over the next three to six months, eBay Inc. chief executive John Donahoe told stock analysts on Wednesday. …
Read More »PayPal Access Debuts to Streamline User Enrollment on E-Commerce, Mobile Sites
n To use PayPal Access, a site must sign up for a PayPal account but is not obliged to accept PayPal. The new system then gives the site access to some 100 million active PayPal users, who can control how much information they want to share. If a user …
Read More »With Seven Device Makers Now On Board, Isis Readies for Its Dual Pilots in 2012
n While the development appears to give Isis a leg up on Google Inc., whose NFC initiative has so far been limited to a specific handset model from Samsung, observers point out that the mobile-operator joint venture is lagging behind in other respects. For example, Google recently announced the …
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