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Maroc Telecom has launched ‘Mobi Cash’ powered by Comviva. Comviva’s ‘mobiquity’ mCommerce solution enables mobile operators and financial institutions to offer mobile banking, mobile wallet and mobile payment services. mobiquity is a secured platform with built-in connectivity to credit card payment gateways, APIs for banks, IN and open APIs for any application. “Maroc Telecom is [...]

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A consumer survey conducted by ABI Research in November 2009 in seven countries on three continents has found consistently low levels of interest in making person-to-person payments via the mobile phone. The survey polled subscribers, equally divided by gender, in Germany, France, the UK, the US, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. About 200 respondents participated [...]

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PayPal has unveiled a new Send Money application for iPhone. Version 2.0 of the PayPal Send Money app gives PayPal and iPhone customers mobile access to their money and convenient features for everyday life, including "Bump" money transfers, Split Cheque and Collect Money. With “bump” users can put two iPhones together, and funds are quickly [...]

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Verizon Wireless will launch Danal’s BilltoMobile payment service (see MPW 101) later this spring. This will enable Verizon customers to charge digital goods to their monthly mobile bills when they buy content online content that is downloaded and consumed on their PCs from Danal’s network of merchants. The mobile payment service will have a $25 [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent has announced a Mobile Wallet Service (MWS) that it says places mobile operators in the centre of the emerging m-payment ecosystem. The company claims its MWS in unique in that it leverages an operator’s trusted network to deliver consumer applications such as P2P payment, remote ticketing, proximity payment and m-commerce – all aggregated onto [...]

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