American Express is partnering with Sprint to help promote its Serve digital wallet platform. It is the first agreement for Serve - which allows users to pay for real and virtual goods with their mobile phone - with a mobile carrier. The Serve app will...
Belgian startup Getyoo, a provider of near field communication (NFC) interactive solutions for the events and meetings industry, has raised USD600,000, TechCrunch reports. The angel funding comes from ex-CEO of Lyreco Eric Bigeard. Getyoo's NFC...
Mobile payments will become mainstream within the next two years, according to a survey of tech execs from KPMG, with 46% of those polled believing mobile payments will hit the mass market by 2013 and 83% claiming the technology will be mainstream by...
PayPal is rolling out its mobile payment offering to all devices running Google's Android OS, as the race to launch a ‘wave and pay' product heats up. The feature will replace apps, where users had to manually input payment details, with the...
Mobile marketing services and monetisation startup Kickanotch has raised USD500,000 in seed funding. The round was led by six angel investors and "incentivised" by Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation. The new capital will be used to expand the...
The number of Americans opting to access financial services via their mobile device rose to 29.8m in Q4 2010, representing a 54% year-on-year increase, according to comScore’s latest figures. Of the 29.8m people, more than 10.8m signed-in through...
In 2020, instant payments look set to continue their current trajectory to become the biggest trend in payments. While these schemes already offer numerous benefits to corporates, leveraging innovations such as APIs and request to pay will go some way to unlocking their full potential, argues Michael Knetsch
A new report from MORE TH>N, based on a study of 10,000 cat and dog owners, reveals how much British pet owners are spending on their beloved companions.
