"mobile payments" entries

ePayments Week: Tapping our hunger for Facebook Credits

Shoppers choose virtual currency, AmEx gets geolocation, and Isis plans for an NFC future.

IFeelGoods finds some shoppers choose virtual currency over the real stuff. Also, American Express teams with Foursquare for geolocated offers, Isis plans a tap-and-pay test in Utah, and Boku steps out of the gaming world to pay for real goods.

ePayments Week: PayPal in brick-and-mortar territory

EBay's acquisition could put PayPal at the register, and why Google sees a warm and fuzzy retail future.

EBay's acquisition of an e-commerce firm could boost PayPal offline. Also, at the Web 2.0 Expo, Google's Osama Bedier describes an ideal vision of the personal shopping experience.

ePayments Week: Visa moves into PayPal territory

Visa plans person-to-person transfers, Groupon gets hyperlocal, Apple sues Amazon over "App Store"

Visa aims to bring P2P payments to a billion cardholders while continuing to test contactless payment. Also, Groupon wants to offer more (and more local) deals and an Apple lawsuit helps promote Amazon's new app market.

ePayments Week: Is iTunes the fifth most populous country?

Apple has 200 million accounts, Hearst challenges the Post Office, and credit cards have life.

In his iPad 2 presentation, Steve Jobs says Apple has more credit card accounts than anywhere else on the Internet. Also, Hearst Media has a plan to bring advertising into personal financial management, and some say the days of credit cards are drawing to a close (credit card companies beg to differ).

ePayments Week: Does Apple deserve a bigger bite?

Google offers publishers a sweeter deal, telcos rally around a payment standard, and Bling Nation embraces Facebook

Apple's plan to charge publishers 30% of in-app subscriptions was undercut by Google's 10% One Pass program the next day. But is Apple's service worth a premium? Plus: Giant companies mull a mobile payment standard and Bling Nation shifts its website to Facebook.

ePayments Week: How to steal coffee from your friends

Starbucks skips security, Visa wants a cut of those Smurfberries, and Nokia's CEO sets a fire.

The stakes may be low, but the weaknesses in Starbucks' mobile app highlight the trade-offs between security and convenience. Also, Visa buys a virtual goods platform and Nokia won't go quietly.

3 mobile payment products hint at the future

We've been told that mobile payment is imminent. Now it might be true.

Report excerpt: Like flying cars and helpful robots, payment through the phone has been an oft-promised / never-delivered innovation. But early trials suggest mobile payment may finally be at hand.

ePayments Week: How big a bite will Apple take?

Is iTunes PayPal on steroids? Also, walled gardens clamp down, and data geeks discuss privacy

In the latest ePayments Week: With contactless payments coming to an iPhone near you, analysts wonder whether Apple will share its 160 million iTunes customers.

ePayments Week: Facebook’s focus on mobile

The social network gets hyperlocal, data privacy promises abound, and mobile app revenues could triple.

In the latest edition of ePayments Week: Facebook wants to be with you always — which sounds cozy, so long as you trust them to do the right thing with that information.

ePayments Week: Facebook's focus on mobile

The social network gets hyperlocal, data privacy promises abound, and mobile app revenues could triple.

In the latest edition of ePayments Week: Facebook wants to be with you always — which sounds cozy, so long as you trust them to do the right thing with that information.