Articles on Mobile Payments

Twitter founder unveils mobile payment "Square" service - Dec 2, 2009

Crave A look at one of Square's receipts for Sightglass Coffee, a San Francisco establishment in which founder Jack Dorsey has invested. Small business is front and center for Square, the ... Read story »

Mobile banking in Korea - Oct 4, 2007

Blogs The Payments System Research group of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has published a research briefing titled "Mobile payments in Japan, South Korea, and the United States" by Terri ... Read story »

Nokia invests in mobile-payment company - Mar 26, 2009

Crave Nokia, the world's largest maker of handsets, supports the idea of turning cell phones into credit cards and is putting its money where its mouth is. On Wednesday, the company announced ... Read story »

Visa's charge card concept goes wireless - Sep 26, 2008

Crave Visa is adding a wireless twist to the old phrase "Charge It." The credit card processing giant announced Thursday several initiatives to allow its credit card toting customers the ability to ... Read story »

Twitter co-founder starts a mobile payment company - Dec 3, 2009

Blogs This geek read with much interest Jack Dorsey's foray into the mobile payments space as I've been working in the payment industry and always mused about the importance of this industry ... Read story »

Nokia to offer mobile financial services - Aug 31, 2009

Crave The world's largest phone-maker has announced that it will set up a new mobile financial service early next year. This is based on US mobile payment solutions provider Obopay's platform and ... Read story »

Comparing China, US Internet usage - May 25, 2009

Blogs A couple of days ago Silicon Alley Insider posted a chart displaying the differences and similarities between Chinese and US Web usership. The chart mines and melds data from the Pew Research ... Read story »

Korean mobile payments company (wants) to make waves in the US - Jun 26, 2007

Blogs One of the relatively big news bursts in recent times was the kitty of US$9.5 million showered upon Danal, the Korean mobile payments company. Technorati Profile Mobile payment services let people ... Read story »

Mobile payment in Japan - Oct 2, 2008

Blogs I was introduced to this popular and ubiquitous mobile payment service in Japan called "Edy", so I snapped away with the Canon PowerShot S5 IS that I had on loan to test ... Read story »

A credit card in your mobile phone - Apr 1, 2009

Crave SINGAPORE--Some 300 Citi M1 Platinum Visa cardholders will be on a three-month NFC mobile payment trial beginning May in Singapore. NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a standard that enables ... Read story »

Fujitsu's waterproof, fingerprint-scanning phone - Jan 21, 2009

Crave Fujitsu phone is waterproof and uses fingerprint-scanning technology. For your next spy mission, consider the F-01A phone from Fujitsu. It's a sleek-looking phone with some serious, sophisticated technological and rugged ... Read story »

Is Vietnam ready for ecommerce? - Apr 19, 2007

Blogs Hello there. This is my first blog in CNET Asia and I hope you readers will forgive any mistakes you may find in the way I express my thoughts in English. ... Read story »

Vodafone buys Hutch - Feb 13, 2007

Blogs %IMAGE=vodafone.jpg% World's second-largest mobile operator (largest by revenue), Vodafone has acquired a majority stake in India's fourth-largest operator Hutch. It will pay US$11.1 billion for a 67 percent stake, which values ... Read story »

Can we pay by SMS? Part 2 - Nov 8, 2007

Blogs Think my Christmas wish might be granted earlier than expected (cross my fingers and toes). As a continuation from my last article regarding flexibility in mobile payment, I got a pleasent ... Read story »

Mobile phone malware in our future? - Oct 24, 2008

Features VeriSign CTO cites the popularity of faster, smarter phones and the lack of native applications on them as possible reasons for malware to target mobile phones in 2009. Read story »

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