Mobile Payments

Sybase 365 says it has been selected to be a preferred mobile money technology provider in MasterCard's Mobile Money Partnership Program. The program is a global initiative to help the more than 2.5 billion...

American Express has unveiled a digital payment and commerce platform that lets users buy goods and make person-to-person transfers online and through mobile phones. Based on the Revolution Money P2P payments platform Amex acquired for...

PayPal has introduced a beta version of its Mobile Payments Library for developers. According to the PayPal blog: Today we're announcing a limited beta version of our Mobile Payments library - an important element of...

There has been a 55% surge in the global use of mobile financial services in the last year, with emerging markets, notably China, driving the growth, according to a survey from TNS. The poll of...

Tencent is not only China's largest social network and online entertainment firm, it is now big in mobile payments. The company has quietly built one of the world's largest mobile payments systems, with transactions which could total more...

PapayaMobile, a mobile social platform for Android apps, has partnered with Zong, Billing Revolution, and Adknowledge's Super Rewards to offer the most complete and effective monetisation solution for Android developers. As a result of...

PayPal announced PayPal Beacon, a low-powered Bluetooth device that will allow consumers to automatically check-in at local stores. The company descibes it as a "complete hands free experience" that will "reinvent today’s in-store shopping experience." “PayPal...

BlackBerry expects to use BBM as the vehicle for offering more mobile money services across a greater number of countries this year, according to Re/code. David Proulx, senior director of BBM business development, said that BlackBerry expects...

The mobile money sector is one of the most fluid in the whole of the mobile ecosystem, with more players entering and exiting, new tech and services being launched or trialled. Here’s MEF’s quarterly update...

Citibank India announced a new paperless mobile payment system for its credit and debit card customers that would do away with the charge slips and be implemented for the entire global network of its...