Category Archives: mobile payments
Bango & Telefónica offer app stores mobile billing
Rating: Crucially supports billing to handset over Wi-fi
An important alliance has been forged by Bango and Telefónica Digital over a direct-to-bill payment capability mostly aimed at mobile app stores. What Telefónica brings to the party is some 314 million chargeable customers worldwide. Importantly, trials of direct-to-bill on Telefónica’s mobile networks have proven its ability to drive sales. The prime advantage to Bango’s platform is that it supports billing to handsets even over Wi-fi. The pair are also hoping to entice others to utilise Telefónica’s BlueVia payment APIs. Continue reading
Bango and Telefónica Digital announce a global mobile payments partnership
Press release
January 17th 2013. Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile payments and analytics company, and Telefónica Digital have announced that they have signed a Global Framework Agreement. The two companies will partner globally to create an enhanced direct-to-bill payment experience for mobile app stores. The partnership will combine Bango’s frictionless payment experience with Telefónica’s BlueVia Payment APIs, connecting over 314 million chargeable customers worldwide to the Bango Payments Platform. Continue reading
NCR and Paypal working together to make everyday easier for consumers when dining out and shopping
NCR’s broad hospitality and retail footprint coupled with more than 117 million PayPal customers offers scale to accelerate adoption of mobile-enhanced consumer shopping and payments
Press release
January 15th 2013. NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) and PayPal, an eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) company, have announced an agreement to integrate NCR’s innovative mobile solutions for hospitality and retail with PayPal’s leading digital payment technology. The combination provides restaurants and retailers an easy, powerful way to offer consumers a rich mobile and digital payment experience when buying the goods and services they want. Continue reading
VoX Mobile adds PayPal Mobile Wallet to Android app
Rating: Invest as little as $1 to make international calls
VoIP apps seem all the rage these days and VoX Mobile’s VoIP calling application is no exception. GoMobile News has covered this product previously (see our report here.) Now reseller, Techwave Marketing has contacted us again to promote the fact that the Vox mobile app has been updated to include support for the PayPal Mobile Wallet. So this facility has become available to PayPal’s over one hundred million users. GoMobile News isn’t a big fan of PayPal but some people obviously don’t share our concerns. Continue reading
Cloud/Linux is behind the success of Barclays’ Pingit app
Rating: Side effect of abandoning mainstream software developers
It has always puzzled GoMobile News as to why the UK’s retail banks have responded so poorly to the obvious consumer demand for banking by smartphone. We’d always assumed it had something to do with data security and/or the time it takes to develop an app fro the three major platforms – iOS; Android and BlackBerry. Let alone developing for Windows Phone 8 (WP8) as well. However, an article in the Sunday Times points the finger somewhere else entirely. According to this report, Barclays has eschewed the use of traditional high tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Oracle and SAP. Instead it has adopted an ‘internal cloud’ model based around using the Linux OS. The result? Mobile app development time dropped dramatically. Continue reading
Monitise girds loins with new CFO as its eyes full London listing
UK mobile payments firm Monitise has made a key appointment to its board as its gears up for a full listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Founded in 2003, Monitise is currently listed on LSE’s AIM market which allows smaller companies to float shares within a more flexible regulatory system. But Monitise has long made it clear it ultimately plans a full LSE listing, though there have also been rumours in the past that it might float instead on America’s Nasdaq where it’s perceived there is more favourable investment climate towards technology firms. Continue reading
Retail landscape will change permanently after this Xmas
Rating: mPowa’s prediction for retail in 2013
Although Boxing Day [2012] is expected to have been the UK’s biggest day in terms of online sales, major retailers – such as Amazon, John Lewis and Tesco, have started their online sales earlier than previous years. “This year [2012] has been more competitive than any previous year. Conditions on the High street have been the fiercest and most challenging yet,” argued Dan Wager, CEO of mPowa. He claimed the current UK retail environment has led to aggressive discounting right across the board- for both online and offline retail. Continue reading
Monitise expands Canadian footprint with new banking alliance
Britain’s mobile payments specialist Monitise has built on its acquisition of Clairmail earlier this year by forging a new alliance with Canada’s Bank of Montreal.
One of the country’s big five banks and formed in 1817, the Bank of Montreal – or BMO as it is commonly known – will use Monitise’s technology to integrate smartphone apps, mobile web services and SMS offerings.
Last month [November 2012], BMO rival CIBC carried out Canada’s first NFC mobile credit card payment through an alliance with telco Rogers. Continue reading
Mobile payment firm Bango goes live with first Google Play link up
Australian deal could pave way for more partnerships with mobile networks
British mobile payments firm Bango has integrated its technology with Google Play, its first platform going live with Australian network operator Telstra. Formed in 1999 and listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2005, Bango’s one payment system is already used by well known brands such as Facebook, BlackBerry App World, Windows Phone Store and Amazon, with customers able to use their mobile phones to purchase goods with a single click, dispensing with the need for credit cards of SMS messaging. Continue reading
Jumio’s payment technology used by mobile startups
Rating: Built into forthcoming Drinksquare app
Payment technology is becoming increasingly important as developers struggle to monetise their mobile apps. Which is probably the reason why specialist mobile payments and ID verification company, Jumio, has been able to announce that some 20 new European and US based companies have signed up with it in this quarter (Q4 2012). It’s not just mobile web sites that can utilise Jumio’s technology, mobile apps can do so too. Continue reading
Jumio makes online verification and payments fast, Easy and fraud free
For numerous new web and mobile start-ups and platforms across Europe
Company announces over 20 new Customers in USA and Europe – accelerating worldwide growth
Press release
December 7th 2012. Jumio, the online and mobile payments and ID verification company, has announced over 20 European and US-based companies, including EntroPay and Youwin, have signed on in the first half of Q4 to integrate Jumio’s Netswipe and Netverify products. These innovative companies have joined many well-established businesses such as Travelocity and Western Union in using Jumio’s computer vision technology solutions. Jumio’s new customers are domiciled in both Europe and the United States of America. Continue reading
MACH helps make it easier for German kids to purchase apps
Rating: GlobalCharge provides operator billing to its app developers
There’s blithe assumption that the ‘unbanked’ amongst smartphone users are all citizens of developing countries. Overlooking the fact that young kids have neither credit or debit cards with which to buy apps or make in-app purchases. That problem disappears with MACH’s direct operator billing service. This has just been made available to some 80 million German mobile subscribers across all the major German networks thanks to a tie up with micro payments specialist, GlobalCharge. By allowing charges to be made directly to an end-user’s mobile phone bill (contract or prepaid), GlobalCharge’s clients can broaden their customer reach and creating new revenue streams from their mobile apps or content. Continue reading
Monitise bounces back as £100m fund raising strategy becomes clearer
Also buying out other half of Mobile Money Network
Mobile payments firm Monitise has embarked on a two-prong attack to beef up its operations, detailing how it hopes to raise £100 million through share placings while simultaneously seizing full control of the Mobile Money Network. Formed 2003 and yet to turn a profit, London-based Monitise provides mobile payments for Visa and UK high street banks. But last week, when it first unveiled its plans to raise money, its shares on Aim dived 7 per cent amid analysts fears that it was struggling. Continue reading
Monitise shares plunge 7% on news it wants to raise £100m
City nervous about why it wants extra cash
Shares in British mobile banking firm Monitise were down nearly 7 per cent in midday trading today [29th November 2012] after it emerged that it was hoping to raise up to £100 million from institutional and strategic investors. CEO, Alastair Lukies, said the proceeds would be used to fund new mobile banking and commerce opportunities for financial institutions and payment companies. He added that more than 18 million customers were now registered with its mobile money services, compared with 5.5 million this time last year. Continue reading
BlackBerry App World integrated carrier billing now implemented with more than 50 carriers
Benefits of integrated carrier billing extend to carriers, developers, content providers, and customers
Press release
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that more than 50 carriers have now implemented integrated carrier billing on the BlackBerry App World storefront for their customers. The announcement marks a great milestone for RIM, and a big benefit for carriers, developers, content providers, and customers. Integrated carrier billing enables a customer to purchase apps or digital goods on their BlackBerry smartphone, and simply and conveniently have the purchases put directly on their regular monthly bill from their carrier. Continue reading
