Boost, a pre-paid brand of Sprint, the third-largest mobile operator in the US, has unveiled a mobile wallet application to pay bills, transfer funds and top-up domestic and international prepaid wireless accounts. An extra feature, “coming soon”, will allow pre-paid …
Hong Kong-based mobile payments specialist MPayMe has formed an alliance with First Data, whereby the payments processor will be the sole distributor and reseller of MPayMe’s offering in the Asia Pacific region. MPayMe’s Znap mobile app enables users to scan …
Square has started its long-awaited foray into international markets with the launch of its distinctive card reader in Japan, in partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corporation. Having established a strong presence in the US market, a launch in October last …
A service in Indonesia that uses BlackBerry Messenger for P2P money transfers has attracted 60,000 users in the 90 days since its launch at the end of February, indicating it is on track for an end-2013 target of 200,000. The …
LIVE FROM CTIA 13, LAS VEGAS: Walmart – the world’s largest retailer - is using mobile technology to bring the power of ecommerce to its stores while remaining faithful to its customer-centric approach, Gibu Thomas, global head of mobile for the …
In another sign of how it is expanding beyond its trademark mobile point-of-sale device, Square is trialling a service that enables users to send money via email. With Square Cash, a user composes an email with the recipient’s email address …
Mobile payment company Tabbedout has added Google Wallet as one of the payment options in its Android app, meaning users can now pay restaurant bills on their phones via their Google account. For a limited period, users who pay with …
African operator Vodacom reports that M-Pesa revenue from its Tanzanian operations shot up by 125 per cent during its financial year ended 31 March 2013. The mobile money service now accounts for 14.1 per cent of sales in Tanzania, or …
PayPal and Square are separately trying to persuade retailers to trade in their old-fashioned cash registers for the companies’ competing point-of-sale products. If US retailers adopt the PayPal Here card reader and “stop using a dusty old cash register” to …
Google has integrated its wallet service with Gmail so users can send money to other users within the email service, an initiative that could give a much-needed boost to its efforts in the payments market. And the company has also …
