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A new service from GoPayforit (MPW 139) has been launched to allow easier access to the Payforit and web Payforit technologies (MPW 118). MPW – www.mobilepaymentsworld.com   Now mobile application developers, blogs, WAP sites and websites can use GoPayforit to charge for content, membership, physical goods, or anything they may wish to sell. Previously, online [...]

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RegaloCard, a mobile payments company that has developed a free and instant replacement to costly money transfer services, continues its rapid expansion announcing that Chili’s, a leading national franchise restaurant chain in El Salvador, has joined the RegaloCard Mobile Payments Network. The RegaloCard service is unique in that it allows immigrants for the first time [...]

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Kenya’s leading mobile operator Safaricom has seen its market share surpass 80%, according to the latest Wireless Intelligence data. Its popularity is driven by its M-PESA mobile money transfer (MMT) service, which is reportedly now being used by more than 20% of the Kenyan population. Safaricom – which is 40% owned by Vodafone – strengthened [...]

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Kenyan wireless operator Safaricom has struck a deal with Equity Bank that enables M-Pesa mobile money transfer customers to access their funds at ATMs around the country. The ATM withdrawal service lets M-Pesa’s 8.5 million users take out cash at Equity Bank’s 550 machines without the need for an account or card. Customers can withdraw [...]

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Zain has expanded ‘Zap’ (MPW 127, 133, 137), its award-winning mobile commerce service to the African nations of Niger, Sierra Leone and in the boundaries of a full commercial pilot in Malawi. The move follows the successful launch of the service in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in February 2009 where more than 10 million people [...]

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