Deals giant Groupon is testing a mobile payments acceptance service that would compete with Square, PayPal Here and Verifone Sail, according to VentureBeat... More
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Wallet engineer heads to Square
Rob von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, has left the search giant to join Square as a “hyperspatial payments pioneer”... More
Square COO dismisses NFC
Payments start-up Square‘s Keith Rabois has dismissed NFC as not offering value to retailers, telling delegates at GigaOm’s Mobilize conference this week that he has “never met a single merchant in the US who says ‘I want this NFC thing.'”... More
Top Google, Square, Visa and Verifone executives to go on stage with Isis today
The ‘Mobile Payments Smackdown’ session at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech event today is set to be the venue for the first live discussion of the NFC deals signed by the major US payments networks with Isis — and NFC World readers can tune in to watch the discussions live via a free webcast provided by the event organisers... More
Visa unveils mobile payment best practice guidelines
The card giant has set out best practices and minimum standards for encryption and made clear the solution provider’s responsibilities to secure cardholder data when mobile devices are used to accept payment. More
NFC news in brief • 7 March 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Norwegians ready to ditch cash • Airtag raises €4m • Cassis signs TSM deals • Intel invests in NFC firm • NEC introduces NFC POS device • AT&T adds ShopAlerts • Square hits $1m a day More
NFC news in brief • 10 Jan 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: ATM top-ups for travel cards • Visa adds mobile app • New boss for Mobey Forum • Washington Metro to go contactless • Square worth $200M? • Madrid picks Mifare Desfire EV1 • Think&Go NFC gets funding • Enstream adds Western Union to Zoompass • All Google staff to get NFC phones? More
Twitter founder invents… a mag stripe card reader
The new venture from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has been the source of much speculation ever since tech blog Mashable posted a photograph of a new iPhone payments system that he was working on... More
Twitter founder adding mobile payments to iPhones via NFC?
Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey is working on a new start up that is developing an iPhone attachment which will enable iPhones to be used to make payments, according to recent reports... More
