Fortumo Brings Its Mobile Payments To Windows 8 — Carrier Billing FTW!
October 31st, 2012
The Estonian/U.S. mobile payments company, Fortumo, has a pretty good track record of moving quickly. It was one of the first — if not the first — to give Android ...
Validity Sensors Raising $20M From Qualcomm, TeleSoft To Bring Fingerprint Security To Mobile Payments
October 18th, 2012
Validity Sensors, the San Jose-based maker of fingerprint scanning sensors and authentication technology, announced today that it has closed $10 million of a $20 million series E financing round. (It ...
Isis, MCX, Barclaycard And Others On Mobile Payments And The Challenge Of “Convening An Industry”
October 11th, 2012
At CTIA MobileCon’s third day keynote in San Diego, a panel of mobile commerce industry leaders discussed the state of mobile payments, the challenges it faces in terms of adoption ...
Starbucks’ Square Rollout Gets A Launch Date; No Loyalty Card Integration (Yet)
October 5th, 2012
At its three-day Global Leadership Conference this week, Starbucks announced further details about its planned rollout and support for Square’s mobile payments platform. First revealed in August, the deal will ...
Square Competitor mPowa Inks Multi-Million-Dollar White Label Deal With First National Bank Of South Africa
October 1st, 2012
Square is gearing up to launch its first international services by the end of this year, but in the meantime, one of its many dongle-based mobile payment competitors is building ...
Pay-By-Keyword Startup Seconds Refocuses As A Way To Make Anyone A Merchant
September 28th, 2012
Seattle-based mobile payments startup Seconds today unveiled a new direction for its product, looking to fill some of the space left behind by the acquisition of competitor Venmo and Square’s ...
