The iPhone case used for the Go Mobile payment service is developed and patented by DeviceFidelity.
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On unveiling the mobile payment service in May, Google said it would trial the product immediately and launch in summer.
Startup Bling Nation is set to bring its mobile payment service nationwide at the beginning of next year and go international soon after that.
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Google is offering a new mobile payment service, involving credit and stored payments methods in Android smartphones, plus hooks to loyalty cards and special offers.
Oltio is a mobile payment service provider based in South Africa and will offer MasterCard?s open loop and remote payments solutions to merchants in the country.
Cultivating a network of entrepreneurs inside this system, in concert with local universities and outfits like M-PESA, the mobile payment service of Vodaphone affiliate Safaricom, is another step.
PayPal is the most prominent online and mobile payment service.
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More specifically, Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon is exploring a mobile payment service based on NFC technology, which would let you pay for items and receive things like loyalty points using nothing other than an NFC-equipped cellphone.
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It increasingly looks like Google will announce a new mobile-payment service for its Android devices tomorrow.
They include Applied Solar, which also plans to build power plants for Indian cell towers, and M-KOPA, a startup created by the founders of M-PESA, the leading mobile-payment service in Kenya and Tanzania.
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So initiatives like the Isis mobile payments network in the U.S. and other joint worldwide standardization initiatives like those driven by the GSM Association are bringing together mobile operators and payment service providers to try and create critical mass.
The Minneapolis-based bank doesn't plan to charge for its new mobile photo bill-payment service.
The online payment service providers and the mobile phone manufacturers (particularly nowadays with smartphones where it is a software-driven market) seem genetically indisposed to interoperability among their services: they are used to working in markets where relentless competition and one-upmanship is what moves the industry forward.
Short Message Service (SMS texts) will continue to be the primary means of mobile payment.
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Mobile-payment services respond that the added levels of security, required of all registered payment service providers, can make these payments safer than handing a credit or debit card to a waiter.
Google Wallet is the first mobile payments service to really show promise in adding capabilities like the above on top of a base payment platform by bringing their ecosystem of local services like Google Places and Offers into the fold.
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