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Visa to launch 'wallet' for phones, online buying
(AP) -- Visa Inc. is making a virtual "wallet" that can hold people's card account information for faster checkouts at online shopping sites and real-world stores.
May 11, 2011 |
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Girl Scout cookies go high-tech: Smartphone sales
(AP) -- The Girl Scouts were selling their cookies the old-fashioned way, pulling a creaky-wheeled red wagon laden with Thin Mints and Samoas down a suburban street. But the affair took a decidedly 21st-century ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Google to set up a mobile payment system this year?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile payment is an arrangement that has a lot of potential to make your life easier, but it also has a lot of potential to create issues with identity theft. That is why when a new company ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Smartphones seen driving travel bookings: Abacus
More people are set to book their travels while on the move due to a phenomenal rise in the number of smartphones, with Asia leading the way, a key industry player said Wednesday.
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Pay for a latte by mobile at Starbucks
US coffee chain Starbucks on Wednesday began allowing customers in its US stores to keep their cash and credit cards in their wallets and pay for their drinks with mobile phones.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Sony and Sharp launch e-readers, tablets in Japan
Sony and Sharp upped the rivalry stakes in the heated e-reader and tablet market with the head-to-head launch on Friday of their latest devices in Japan, along with tens of thousands of e-book titles.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Dwolla a new player in electronic money transfers
(AP) -- Just as plastic rendered paper checks nearly obsolete, gadgets may soon do the same to credit and debit cards.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Wireless carriers team up on mobile payment network
Three of the largest US wireless carriers announced on Wednesday they are teaming up to build a national network to make payments by mobile phones.
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Mobile payments catch on with banks, phone makers
Smart phones already enable you to snap photos and bank online. Now banks and credit card companies think it might make sense for your phone to take over the functions of credit and debit cards.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Asians make the most payments with mobile phones: research
The number of people using mobile phones to make payments is expected to rise 50 percent this year to nearly 109 million with Asians leading the pack, technology research firm Gartner said Monday.
Jun 21, 2010 |
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With pay-by-phone startup, Aaron Greenspan rebounds from Facebook suit
The last time the tech world heard from Aaron Greenspan, he was settling a trademark lawsuit in which he charged that he, not his Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg, had come up with the idea for an online social networking ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 05, 2010 |
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Twitter co-founder takes aim at mobile payments
(AP) -- Jack Dorsey revolutionized online socializing by co-founding Twitter in 2006. Now he wants to transform the way people exchange money.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 30, 2009 |
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Nokia seeks gold in mobile payments startup Obopay
(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is making a large investment in a California-based startup that wants to make the mobile phone the credit card of the developing world.
Mar 25, 2009 |
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