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Cred-Ex debuts mobile payment service for customers

March 12, 2010

Cred-Ex introduced a new service that lets existing customers make mobile payments for goods at brick and mortar stores.


Contactless payments tipping point is at hand: First Data

March 9, 2010

Contactless mobile payments mean a faster checkout resulting in more revenue from increased throughput and the loyalty of customers who prefer contactless to make purchases.

Mercedes-Benz Financial lets customers make car payments via mobile

March 4, 2010

Mercedes-Benz Financial has expanded its personalized and convenient account management features to all of its customers using smartphones like iPhone, BlackBerry and other mobile devices with Internet capabilities.

Are consumers willing to buy goods, services via mobile?

March 2, 2010

Mobile Commerce Daily writers polled their Facebook friends to see whether consumers are interested in buying goods and services via their mobile phones.

Zwinky, Aeria Games tap Zong for mobile payments

February 24, 2010

IAC/Mindspark’s Zwinky, an online avatar site that integrates with social networks, and online games publisher Aeria Games have tapped Zong to enable mobile payments.

Mocapay unveils secure mobile payments at merchant POS

February 23, 2010

Mocapay, a mobile payments platform, has introduced a service that enables secure, hardware infrastructure agnostic, mobile payments regardless of tender type and transaction location.

Western Union expands Mobile Vendor Program to spread money-transfer services

February 22, 2010

Money-transfer giant the Western Union Co. is extending the reach and accessibility of its money transfer services with mobile finance initiatives in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Boku lets Globe Telecom subscribers buy virtual goods via mobile

February 17, 2010

Philippine wireless carrier Globe Telecom is partnering with mobile payments specialist Boku to expand acceptance of the Globe GCash service internationally.

Mopay expands gaming, social network micropayments to US

February 17, 2010

Mopay Inc., a provider of mobile payment services, has expanded into the United States, helping North American gaming and social networking providers to open a new revenue channel.

Oakland A’s tap Tickets.com’s ProVenueMobile for mobile commerce

February 12, 2010

The Oakland A’s have become the first Major League Baseball club to implement the full functionality of Tickets.com’s ProVenueMobile to enable mobile commerce.