The competition for your digital wireless NFC wallet is already raging, ahead of mass launches next year. As the prime players squabble, the real losers are clear: you and me.READ»
PayPal has handed over nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to buy Zong, a leading provider of mobile payments. It's safe to say PayPal is serious about future innovations in mobile-pay tech.READ»
A big chunk of change dropped into the mobile payments company’s lap this week when Kleiner Perkins signed on as an investor. Square's COO, Keith Rabois, tells us where the dough will go.READ»
Jack Dorsey's Square is on a ($100 million) tear this week, but the competition is heating up--and they have bigger plans for a wireless payment future that could arrive as soon as next year.READ»
After much speculation, MySpace is sold--apparently Justin Timberlake teamed up with Specific Media for the $35M purchase. It's the latest breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors.READ»
While the world goes wild for the Royal Wedding (and the Internet creaks under the load of all the video streams), there's still plenty of other news happening. Here's our handy summary:READ»
It was barely a month ago that American Express launched its futuristic mobile payments system Serve. Now it's already moving to reinforce it by investing in a small firm that makes mobile transactions cheaper and more secure.READ»
The fantasy of buying a Slurpee with nothing more than a dramatic wave of your iPhone 5 may be an inevitable future. But like hydrogen cars and hoverboards, electronic wallet technology has a long, long way to go.READ»
Electronic payment firm VeriFone launched a surprise attack on competitor and hot mobile-payment startup Square today, with CEO Douglas Bergeron penning an open letter chastising what he says are Square's security flaws. Is this just a bold PR move, or does Square actually have security loopholes to close?READ»
The innovative iPhone peripheral Square, designed to bring credit card accepting skills to the smallest vendor is now, surprise surprise, the subject of an IP battle centered around the initial invention of the idea.READ»
In the wake of MasterCard's opening of its API to app writers, PayPal teases its future smartphone payment tech. With Visa in the game too, things could get feisty.READ»
That familiar "Buy Now With 1-Click" button, so enticing on Amazon.com, is about to become a temptation for mobile customers everywhere. Amazon is offering its Mobile Payments Service (MPS) platform to third parties for integration ...READ»
Water is like liquid gold in drought-stricken areas of Africa, so it's no surprise to learn water conflict and corruption is common. Safaricom's M-PESA system of cell phone cash transfer, originally released in 2007, could help quell ...READ»
Mobile payments system Boku just announced that it will work with a bevy of social networks and gaming sites. But competitor Zong, was recently chosen to pilot Facebook's virtual currency, called Credits. Both sites will face ...READ»
