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Mobile Payments
NFC Shouldn’t Be About Payments, It Should Be A Platform
11.08.07 | Permalink | Comments OffI posted a link on Monday to a story about yet another small-scale NFC trial, this one in France, wondering when we’d ever see an actual commercial launch of one of these plans. In the comments, Raddedas from the always-entertaining Techype pointed out that with no NFC-equipped handsets available in the west, and none visible [...]
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Analysis, Mobile Payments
Operators’ Cut of PSMS to Fall
09.23.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsIf you asked 100 penguins in the wild if they’d like Killer Whales to eat fewer of them next year, I’m pretty sure they’d overwhelmingly say yes. In an astute follow up question, they’d also probably agree that Killer Whales will eat less of them - if you’re an penguin, living in a dark, cold [...]
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Mobile Payments
Premium SMS Fundraising and Operator Revenue Share
03.30.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsDuring SXSW, I ran into Scott Dudelson, who’s putting on premium SMS-based fundraiser for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Justin over at MoPocket has a thorough rundown on Scott and the project, so check that out for more info on what he’s doing, but the basic idea is that people text “HEAL” to the shortcode [...]
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Mobile Payments
PayPal And Mobile, A Week Later
03.27.06 | Permalink | Comments OffPayPal last week took the wraps off its initial mobile offering, and as I pointed out, it held few surprises beyond the fact that it ignored mobile content — when they was the very place many people felt it would attack first, and could affect the most change.
Today, MocoNews point out a study that predicts [...]
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Mobile Payments
PayPal Mobile Launches, Mobile Payments Apocalypse Upon Us, etc etc
03.22.06 | Permalink | 10 CommentsAs you’ve probably noticed, PayPal launched its long-awaited mobile service today, ready to bring down the pain on all other pretenders to the mobile payments crown.
Or is it?
There’s little doubt that PayPal will make a big splash in the US’ nascent market; after all, that’s what big brands do. It’s got a huge base of [...]
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Mobile Payments
Mobile Lime Scores $10 million. One Question - Why?
03.21.06 | Permalink | 8 CommentsOliver, writing at Mobile Crunch says that mobile payment player, Mobile Lime, have raised $10 million in further funding. I share Oliver’s complete bafflement.
I wrote about Mobile Lime before in the context of a pretty thorough analysis of the mobile payments sector. I was pretty damning in my conclusions about the product’s usability and therefore [...] -
Analysis, Mobile Payments
Mobile Payments Take Hold in Korea
03.13.06 | Permalink | Comments OffThere’s two schools of thought when it comes to mobile payments, or the ability to use your mobile phone to pay for goods and services.
The first is a little similar to the one about if God had intended us to fly, she’d have given us wings. In other words, we don’t use our mobile to [...] -
Mobile Payments
PayPal (Still) Looking To Mobile, But In The Wrong Places
02.03.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsMocoNews points out that PayPal is advertising open positions in “PayPal Mobile, signaling its intent to get into the mobile payments space. The listings describe PayPal Mobile as “a dynamic, young ’start-up’ business unit within PayPal dedicated to bringing value-added mobile payment services to consumers and merchants.” Of course, this is the same unit they [...]
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Mobile Payments
Mobile Payments in the Wild
09.16.05 | Permalink | 6 CommentsBack in June I wrote a post exploring the mobile payments sector - or what I called the next billion dollar market.
In the post I used Mobile Lime as an example of a company who were getting it wrong, in my opinion. In fact, I concluded “Mobile Lime, in the nicest possible way; Change or [...]
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