The results of a two year project investigating the potential of near field communication to replace meal vouchers, discounts coupons and gift vouchers have been released. More
Archive: The D2C Report
SK Telekom, Hana Financial to launch mobile contactless service in March
Hana Card, the Korean credit card issuer in which SK Telekom took a 49% stake in December, has announced it is to launch its new mobile proximity service in mid-March... More
Vivotech picks Zapa for European TSM services
Vivotech has selected Zapa Technology as its preferred partner for managed Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services in Europe... More
MoLo launches mobile rewards programme in San Diego and Toronto
MoLo Rewards has launched its mobile rewards programme in the cities of San Diego and Toronto... More
Gemalto adds mobile coupons to its NFC products
Gemalto has announced a partnership with leading coupon specialist HighCo that will see the company adding mobile coupons to its NFC Trusted Service Manager (TSM) offering... More
Zapa adds mobile loyalty application to contactless stickers
Zapa Technology has partnered with Mobiun to enable users of its mobile loyalty system to check and manage loyalty points they have collected via their mobile handsets... More
Banka Koper begins NFC payments and promotions trial in Slovenia
Trial participants can use their Sagem Wireless NFC handsets to make payments and to collect information and promotional coupons from smart posters. More
China Mobile begins commercial rollout of mobile contactless payments system
RF SIMs are now widely available for subscribers to purchase from China Mobile stores and the first major retailer has signed up to accept the new mobile contactless payments technology. More
Blaze customers access their mobile wallets nine times a day
Blaze Mobile, the US mobile banking and mobile wallet services provider, has revealed that its active users are now accessing their Blaze Mobile Wallets an average of nine times a day... More
Vivotech launches contactless POS terminals with built-in mobile marketing functions
Vivotech has introduced a new range of contactless POS terminals that come with a built in ability to delivery mobile marketing and promotional programmes as well as prepaid and gift card acceptance and support for digital receipts... More
Blaze Mobile adds Tetherball’s loyalty system to the Blaze Wallet
Blaze Mobile and Tetherball are to provide US consumers with the ability to both redeem mobile rewards and coupons and make purchases using their mobile phone... More
New platform lets mobile operators offer payments, ticketing, loyalty services via stickers or NFC phones
Touchatag has partnered with Clear2Pay to launch a new platform that enables mobile operators to offer contactless payment, ticketing and marketing services using contactless stickers or NFC phones. More
Irish town launches local loyalty programme using mobile stickers
The small town of Tuam in County Galway, Eire, has introduced a loyalty scheme based on Zapa Technology’s mobile contactless stickers with the aim of encouraging local people to do more of their shopping in the town. More
Vivotech launches contactless stickers and mobile loyalty platform
Vivotech has launched a new contactless sticker product and a backend loyalty system aimed at retailers and other companies looking to launch mobile contactless loyalty and couponing programmes... More
McDonalds, Arby’s, Qdoba, Dairy Queen and Dunkin’ Donuts testing Tetherball’s mobile loyalty system
“The results we’ve seen since launching our mobile rewards program in early July are greater than even our most optimistic projections,” says Brent Higgins of Aztec Partners, one of Qdoba Mexican Grill’s largest franchisees. More
Juniper: Operators will earn more from NFC coupon and smart poster applications than from payments
A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) from near field communication based coupon and smart poster applications will exceed those generated from payments applications, until 2014 at least... More
Vivotech teams up with Tetherball and with Zapa Technology to offer mobile loyalty solutions to retailers
Vivotech is to offer Tetherball’s sticker-based mobile loyalty programme to its installed base of retailers and is supplying Irish start up Zapa with contactless stickers and POS equipment. More
Tranzfinity adds NFC to Facebook
A new NFC-based service has launched in Los Angeles that automatically updates a consumer’s Facebook status with a message from the merchant every time they tap a poster in a shop or restaurant to obtain a special offer. More
French children’s fashion retailer issues 300,000 NFC loyalty stickers
Children’s clothing retailer Tape à l’oeil has rolled out Adelya’s contactless sticker based loyalty system nationwide, across all 170 stores and its website. More
Retail marketing will drive growth of NFC market, says Juniper
Retailers using NFC for mobile coupon and smart poster applications will be key drivers of the growth of near field communication over the next three years, according to a market study published last month by Juniper Research... More