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Mobile Payments & Banking

Comarch Integrates NFC Technology

The global vendor of products and services announced that it will add Near Field Communications technology to its portfolio. ...More
April 5, 2012 By Lindsay Welnick
Posted in News
Billing Operations: The Evolution Continues

As the industry changes around it and people predict the end of billing as we know it, the truth is, billing adapts but it does not go away. ...More
April 3, 2012
Posted in Digital Issues, Billing, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery
Shipments of NFC-Enabled Handsets Ballooning

Berg Insight pointed out that NFC technology for short-range wireless point-to-point communication reached a milestone last year when leading handset makers released more than 40 NFC-enabled handsets. ...More
March 26, 2012
Posted in News
Google Wallet Underwhelms?

Sprint, however, has been bullish on Google Wallet, at least publicly. ...More
March 23, 2012 By Josh Long
Posted in News
Mobile-Banking Services Set to Triple in 4 Years

If you're not on the mobile-banking bandwagon, you probably will be soon. Approximately 80 percent of total mobile banking customers will pay their bills via a mobile device by 2016, a new report says. ...More
March 22, 2012 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Billing
Mobile World Congress Executive Summary

This Executive Summary gives a snapshot of the things shaping innovative business models and new services that are becoming reality with the commercialization of LTE, network infrastructure investments and the playing out of the video-related profitability gap. ...More
March 21, 2012
Posted in Reports, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery
Boku Raises $35 Million for Mobile Payments

San Francisco-based mobile-payments provider Boku has raised $35 million in a funding round, thanks in big part to investor Telefónica Digital. ...More
March 15, 2012 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
NFC To Spike, Boost Mobile Commerce

A new study by Juniper Research forecasts that NFC will facilitate transactions valued at $74 billion by 2015 as NFC is increasingly used for the payment of goods in-store and as transport tickets. ...More
March 8, 2012 By Lindsay Welnick
Posted in News
Majority of Americans Not Using, Uncomfortable with Mobile Transactions

Despite the increasing penetration of smartphones into everyday lives and the buzz around mobile payments, the paper-saving transactional applications – such as mobile boarding passes, couponing, payments and the like – are only in the nascent stages. ...More
March 7, 2012 By Tara Seals
Posted in News
Are Operators Starting to Walk the Walk?

The next five years are going to be really exciting, especially as we begin to see all the operators efforts from the past five years come to fruition. ...More
March 2, 2012
Posted in Blog, Service Creation & Delivery