Osama Bedier, Google's vice president of Wallet and payments, is to leave the company.
TapBase adds NFC-Less Proximity Payments to its Tap Mobile Payments, Loyalty and Rewards Platform.
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HablaCuba.com launches a new mobile recharge promotion: between May 8-11, all top ups of minimum $22 to a Cubacel phone will be doubled. The easy, fast and reliable service addresses those living abroad or traveling, who send credit to mobile phones in Cuba.
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Canadian financing companies catering to small businesses typically offer the popular 'merchant advance' service. Vancouver-based Merchant Advance Capital recently expanded and now also offers conventional small business loans for companies where merchant advances are not the best fit.
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US-based Bitcoin start-up Coinbase has raised USD 5 million from investment company Union Square Ventures.
Coinbase provides an online wallet which allows users to store Bitcoin, a merchant platform which enables services to accept Bitcoin payments and an online service which allows individuals and merchants to buy or sell Bitcoin into fiat currencies.
Version 3.0 of Foursquare for Windows Phone 8 is now available, with support for NFC check-ins and sharing. The app also has an updated user interface that allows favourite people and venues to be pinned to the start screen, as well as the ability to receive lock screen notifications.
US online fraud prevention services provider StrikeForce Technologies and Solantus, a provider of security technology, have teamed up to deliver to Canadian businesses the necessary tools to prevent cybercrime.
Under the terms of the deal, StrikeForce products including ProtectID, GuardedID and MobileTrust will be offered through select Canadian resellers. In addition, Solantus will help establish the StrikeForce brand in Canada, create market awareness, acceptance and assist in channel development.
The head of Google Wallet, Osama Bedier, has quit after two years in the job during which the mobile payments operation has failed to take off.
In a statement confirming a Venture Beat report, the search giant says Bedier has "decided to leave Google this year to pursue other opportunities," adding that "he's achieved a lot during his time here, and we wish him all the best in his next endeavour".
Global provider of payment and risk services WorldPay has entered into an agreement with The Start-Up Loans Company to become the recommended payments processor for entrepreneurs.
As a result, entrepreneurs receiving loans and support from The Start-Up Loans Company will now be able to take card payments using their smartphone, backed-up by customer support through WorldPay's Pay As You Go (PAYG) Card Acceptance Service.
US collaborative business commerce and e-invoicing services provider Ariba and US-based payment company Discover Financial Services have unveiled Ariba Pay, a new cloud-based service.
When launched, the cloud-based service is set to combine the applications and insights embedded in the Ariba Network and deliver them through Discover’s trusted global payments infrastructure to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce. The service is expected to be generally available in 2014.
Ergonomic Solutions, a supplier of payment terminal mounting solutions, has released a white paper entitled “How to secure devices, data and networks: PCI compliance and what this means to you.”
The white paper is a practice guide to payment data security which embraces not only the physical securing of terminals and other payment devices, but also the implications of PCI compliance on device security, management, registration and maintenance, as well as the payments environment.
The Nigerian government has commenced the roll out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with biometric and electronic payment capability as a pilot programme.
In the first phase of the programme, Nigerians 16 years and older, and all residents in the country for more than two years, will get the new multipurpose identity card which has 13 applications including MasterCard's prepaid payment technology utilising EMV Chip and PIN.
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The enrollment process involves the recording of an individual's demographic and biometric data, including the capture of 10 fingerprints, facial picture and digital signature.
Finnish e-procurement and e-invoicing software company Basware has launched its advanced reporting suite dubbed Basware Analytics which provides deep analysis and insight across Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) information.
Basware Analytics packages customisable dashboards tailored to specific job functions. These dashboards include: CFO / CPO Spend Visibility, CFO / CPO Vendor Analysis , FSSC / AP Manager Process Metrics and Business Managers Tracking.
Despite growing adoption of mobile payment technology, most Australians can’t picture using smartphones as the most common method of payment within the next four years, a recent report has revealed.
According to a report issued by HP and research firm RFi, the barriers for adoption were often cited as a lack of industry standards, slow merchant adoption, reliability, security concerns as well as mistrust of telecommunications providers.
US-based mobile payment company Tabbedout has extended its partnership with restaurant point-of-sale (POS) company Future POS.
Under the terms of the new partnership, Tabbedout merchant marketing solution, Periscope, is available in Future POS merchant locations that use the Future Fusion software in their restaurants, bars and hotels, and will be available in all new Future Fusion POS installs and system upgrades.
US payment processing services provider Signature Card Services has integrated with data technology company Tranzlogic.
Following the integration, merchant clients of Signature Card Services will gain access to Tranzlogic’s proprietary process, which provides actionable customer intelligence derived from their credit card transaction data.
Global decision management services provider FICO is set to provide its Adeptra Mobile Services Platform as a service in the new FICO Analytic Cloud, for creating, customizing and deploying applications and services.
Using services built on the FICO Adeptra Mobile Services Platform, businesses can communicate with customers in real time, using voice, SMS, mobile apps, email and social media channels.
Zaakpay, an Indian online payment gateway provider, has launched its mobile payment processing solution for retailers dubbed Mpay.
Mpay enables retailers to collect payments via mobile devices. With this solution, users can buy directly using their mobile phones.
US based startup CardFlight has launched its private beta. CardFlight provides tools to app developers to allow them to integrate card-present payments into their own mobile applications.
They provide an encrypted magnetic stripe reader and an SDK/API so that developers can accept card present payments in their apps, with support for their existing merchant account. CardFlight works with most iOS and Android devices.
Elavon, a global payments provider and a subsidiary of US Bancorp, has appointed Simon Haslam as president and chief executive officer.
Haslam joined Elavon in 2005 and was president of Elavon International Markets. He is credited with Elavon’s expansion throughout Europe, South America and Latin America.
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