Mobile Payments articles

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  Boost Mobile launches mobile wallet app, offers prepaid Visa card for in-store purchases

  By Chris Welch on May 21, 2013 10:49 am + 3 comments

  In yet another sign of just how crowded the mobile payments market is becoming, Boost Mobile today Continue reading…

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  Google Wallet and Payments VP Osama Bedier leaving the company

  By Dieter Bohn on May 8, 2013 06:19 pm + 34 comments

  The vice president of Google Wallet, Osama Bedier, is leaving to pursue "other opportunities." First Continue reading…

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  Obama's former tech chief now developing a mobile commerce app

  By Vlad Savov on April 23, 2013 04:14 pm + 8 comments

  Harper Reed, the chief technology officer behind the successful 2012 Obama reelection campaign, is Continue reading…

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  The knives come out: Mastercard will charge PayPal and Google for their mobile wallets (updated)

  By Dieter Bohn on March 20, 2013 07:32 pm + 79 comments

  Our long, slow slog towards ubiquitous mobile payments isn't getting any shorter, and today, Continue reading…

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  FTC report recommends mobile payment services offer transparency and security to customers

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 8, 2013 06:31 pm + 6 comments

  While no one mobile payment system has gained serious traction with consumer, there's little doubt Continue reading…

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  Payments startup LevelUp taps MakerBot to build a sleeker way to pay with your phone

  By Ellis Hamburger on March 7, 2013 09:00 am + 10 comments

  Today, payments startup LevelUp announced the availability of a sleek new tool: a newly-refined Continue reading…

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  'Next generation' Samsung smartphones to ship with Visa NFC payment system

  By Dieter Bohn on February 25, 2013 10:55 am + 47 comments

  At an event today at MWC, Visa announced a partnership with Samsung that will result in its payWave Continue reading…

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  MasterCard's MasterPass tries yet again to solve the mobile payments problem

  By Dan Seifert on February 25, 2013 12:15 am + 10 comments

  MasterCard has had its hands in the mobile payments space for a long time now, and here at Mobile Continue reading…

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  PayPal's in-store payment platform spreads to 18,000 retail locations across the US

  By Chris Welch on January 14, 2013 04:07 pm + 18 comments

  In May of last year, PayPal sought to make its in-store payment platform more ubiquitous by rounding Continue reading…

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  Verizon's Isis Mobile Wallet app can use a phone's secure element, but Google Wallet can't

  By Dan Seifert on December 19, 2012 04:50 pm + 69 comments

  Earlier this month it came to light that the reason Verizon was not offering the Google Wallet app Continue reading…