iKaaz turns mobile phones into NFC readers
Bangalore-based iKaaz has unveiled a new NFC reader solution costing less than $20. Using its proprietary NFC Reader, which can be plugged into any mobile phone, iKaaz says it has overcome one of the...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom lines up mobile payments partners
Deutsche Telekom has chosen two vendors – B+S Card Service and Intercard – to support its deployment of NFC-based mobile payment systems. The vendors will supply the infrastructure for processing...
View ArticleKFC trials mobile ordering service
KFC is piloting a service that enables users to order and pay for food on their smartphones before collecting it from the nearest branch of the fast-food chain. The company has launched a pilot at ten...
View ArticleBill-splitting service changes hands
Singaporean firm Billpin, which enables users to split bills, has acquired larger US rival BillMonk for an undisclosed fee, according to Tech in Asia. BillPin, which only launched in February, has...
View ArticleSingapore’s NFC sign-ups are “slow” – report
The rate at which mobile subscribers are signing up for NFC-based services in Singapore is “slow”, according to a report in the Straits Times. Since last August about 15,000 users have upgraded to...
View ArticleItalian mobile POS vendor Jusp raises $6M
Italian firm Jusp is set to become the latest entrant to the expanding European mobile point-of-sale market following a $6 million investment round led by two local venture capital firms. The firm said...
View ArticleBraintree looks to retail market
US payments vendor Braintree is partnering with Branding Brand, a mobile app provider which works with leading retailers. The partnership makes it more likely that the likes of American Eagle...
View ArticleFirm to add NFC in Swedish stores
Swedish firm Seamless is adding NFC to its existing Seqr solution that enables users to make payments via mobile phone in stores. The firm is embedding a thin RFID chip supporting NFC in stickers for...
View ArticleIDC defines the wallet, tells banks to focus on identity
A new report by IDC argues the term e-wallet should replace current terminology such as digital wallets, mobile wallets or mobile payments. The research firm says e-wallet can then be sub-divided into...
View ArticleChina Mobile to offer free NFC SIM upgrade – report
China Mobile will begin offering free NFC-based SIM cards in its service centres from mid-April, according to You Feng, general manager of China Mobile’s e-commerce operations division. The story was...
View ArticleNFC-enabled SIM shipments hit 30M – SIMalliance
Global shipments of NFC-enabled SIM cards hit 30 million in 2012, according to the SIMalliance. The figure is an 87 per cent increase on the low base of the previous year as 2012 saw the start of...
View ArticleChunghwa to launch mobile payments via QR codes
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest mobile operator, will shortly launch a mobile payment service that will enable users to scan and buy goods with their smartphones, according to Focus Taiwan....
View ArticleIndustry veteran launches new company to make NFC “cool”
Einar Rosenberg, chief executive of NFC specialist Narian Technologies, reckons most users don’t think much of the contactless technology, which, in turn, is holding back NFC-based payments.That’s why...
View ArticleChina UnionPay, Intel link on mobile payments
China UnionPay, the country’s bank card payment system, has announced a collaboration with Intel on secure mobile payments. The partners are using a number of technologies including Intel’s own...
View ArticleG&D to cut 400 jobs
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced 400 redundancies in its mobile security unit, following a fall in group earnings in its annual results. G&D said the job cuts at the unit, whose...
View ArticlePayPal pushes ‘in-aisle’ purchases
PayPal has joined forces with e-commerce platform Magento offer its merchants what it terms in-aisle selling for consumers. The idea is that shoppers can make transactions with staff wandering the...
View ArticleVodafone includes M-Pesa in Myanmar bid
Vodafone wants to offer its M-Pesa mobile money service in Myanmar, if its joint bid for a mobile licence in the country with China Mobile is successful, according to the Financial Times. If the mobile...
View ArticleSingtel launches mobile money service
Singtel has launched mCash, a mobile money service that the operator describes as an alternative to cash for P2P transactions such as splitting bills, dispensing pocket money, paying for taxis,...
View ArticleAlipay trials audio payments
China’s leading online payments system Alipay is running a trial of vending machines in the Beijing subway that enable users to make mobile payments via the white noise generated by smartphones,...
View ArticleBraintree guarded about offline payments
The US vendor Braintree already enables users to make online transactions from their mobile devices but is cautious about its strategy regarding offline payments, in an interview with Mobile World...
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