Google is considering sharing revenue with carriers to encourage them to embrace its Google Wallet NFC app, according to Bloomberg... More
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GuestLogix takes NFC on board
GuestLogix has launched Global Payment Services, a payments processing platform for airlines that supports NFC as well as cash and credit card transactions, debit cards, loyalty cards, coupons, pre-payments and micropayments... More
Pinkberry adds gWallet support
International yoghurt retailer Pinkberry has added support for Google Wallet payments and offers at 69 of its US outlets... More
gWallet pioneers in new venture
Google Wallet founding engineer Jonathan Wall and product lead Marc Freed-Finnegan have left the search giant to form their own company, Techcrunch reports... More
Auriemma: 30% will switch for NFC
A survey conducted by Auriemma Consulting Group has found that 30% of respondents would switch handsets in order to use their phones to make purchases and the figure rises to 41% amongst the under-45s... More
Harris: 24% ready for m-payments
A Harris Interactive survey of 2,056 US consumers has found that 24% are comfortable with the idea of using a mobile app that would store credit card information and allow them to make purchases at a retailer or company as they would with a credit card... More
Savvy consumers wary of wallets
A US consumer survey conducted by Radius Global Market Research has found that consumers under 35 and those identifying as digitally savvy are the most likely to be concerned with mobile payment security and fraud issues... More
In-Stat: NFC to hit US$9.9bn
Market forecaster In-Stat predicts that the value of proximity mobile payment transactions will approach US$9.9 billion in 2016, up from $1.1 billion in 2012... More
Juniper: NFC to reach US$74bn
Juniper Research forecasts that NFC will facilitate transactions valued at US$74bn by 2015, as the technology is increasingly used for the payment of goods instore and for transport tickets... More
Nokia Money to close down
Nokia is to close down its Nokia Money service, which was launched in India in late 2011 and was expected to expand internationally... More
Orange hits 500k NFC phones
500,000 Orange customers in France and the UK are now equipped with NFC phones, the mobile network operator has told NFC World... More
PayPal to demo digital wallet
PayPal is to demonstrate a new digital wallet solution at the SXSW event in Austin, Texas this week... More
Samsung Wallet on the way?
Phone maker Samsung has filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for “Samsung Wallet”, a word mark relating to “computer software for mobile phones, smart phones and tablet PCs,” PocketNow reports... More
M-Tel to test NFC in Bulgaria
Bulgarian mobile network operator M-Tel is to begin a six month NFC payments pilot in May 2012, in conjunction with First Investment Bank, and hopes to begin commercial services this year... More
Google warns on rooted phones
Some Google Wallet users running the app on rooted NFC phones are now seeing a message pointing out that their phone is an unsuppported device... More
Delhi Metro tests NFC
Indian mass transportation operator Delhi Metro Railway Corporation has “started experimenting with NFC-enabled cell phones” for ticketing, reports The Times of India... More
Visa steps up phone approvals
Visa currently has six certified NFC phones and expects to double that figure in the next few months, the payments network’s Andrea Fiorentino has told NFC World... More
Intel picks NFC TSM
Chip giant Intel has picked Giesecke & Devrient as its trusted service manager for the embedded secure elements built into its smartphone reference design (SRD), a ‘plug and play’ blueprint that handset makers can use to build Android handsets using Intel’s NFC-enabled Medfield chips... More
Tester checks NFC in-store
Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion has released an NFC testing solution that can be used in-store to check a device’s NFC functionality... More
Visa certifies Intel NFC phone
Visa has certified Intel‘s smartphone reference design (SRD) for use in NFC payments and formed a strategic alliance with the chip maker, designed to develop mobile commerce solutions tailored to consumers in developed and developing countries... More