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Intuit has acquired Boston-based mobile commerce company AisleBuyer in a deal reported to be worth up to $100 million.
11 April 2012
New Zealand's bank-owned payments network Paymark is teaming up with three of the country's major wireless network operators on a contactless mobile money joint venture.
02 April 2012
PayPal has replaced Scott Thompson, who quit as president in January, with its current mobile chief David Marcus, who joined the eBay unit last year when it acquired his direct carrier billing operator Zong.
29 March 2012
MasterCard has developed a service that provides online merchants with a predictive fraud score for card-not-present sales in real time to measure the likelihood that a transaction is crooked.
28 March 2012
Portugal Telecom employees are piloting a mobile wallet service that enables them to make contactless, SMS, USSD and QR Code-based payments with any handset.
22 March 2012
PayPal has taken the wraps off its Square rival, offering small businesses a free dongle and app that allows them to accept card payments with their mobile phones.
16 March 2012
Qatar National Bank (QNB) and local telco Qtel have launched a contactless mobile payments service, offering customers the choice of MasterCard PayPass-enabled SIM cards or stickers.
06 March 2012
The Girl Scouts of America have a new weapon in their cookie-selling armoury this year thanks to technology from Sage which enables them to accept card payments through mobile phones.
Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture set up by a group of US telcos, has struck deals ensuring that its NFC payments technology works with VeriFone, Ingenico, ViVOtech and Equinox point-of-sale terminals.
05 March 2012
Banco Santander and Orange are trialling a contactless mobile payments service that works with both Visa and MasterCard accounts.
Square is looking to modernise the cash register with a free iPad app that turns the tablet into a fully configured merchant point-of-sale system.
UK-based payment technology vendor CreditCall has completed a management buy-out with the backing of FF&P Private Equity and Bestport Ventures. Financial terms were not disclosed.
A group of American retailers, including Wal-Mart and Target, is developing its own mobile payments system, joining an already crowded field of banks, card companies, technology vendors and telcos, according to the Wall Street Journal.
02 March 2012
US retailer Home depot is to roll out Paypal's in-store payment system nationwide following a six-week trial at five pilot stores.
29 February 2012
Telco Orange has signed a deal that enables it to incorporate Visa pre-paid accounts within its mobile money service for customers in Africa and the Middle East.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has suffered a major crash of its eftpos and ATM systems, marking a continuation of the IT problems that have blighted the country's top banks over the past eighteen months.
Oberthur Technologies has entered exclusive negotiations to buy US mobile money specialist MoreMagic Solutions. Financial details have not been disclosed but MoreMagic's major shareholders, including Battery Ventures and Vision Capital, are backing the deal.
28 February 2012
Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals, is preparing to move into the UK market, hiring former Barclaycard innovation chief Stewart Roberts to lead its operations in the country.
27 February 2012
Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, has snagged deals with Chase, Capital One and Barclaycard to load their credit, debit and pre-paid cards onto the telco-controlled mobile wallet.
Mobile network operator Vodafone has formed a global partnership with Visa to bring contactless mobile payments to customers in more than 30 countries around the world.
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