Customers of Canadian carrier Bell will be able to use CIBC bank’s mobile payment app to make NFC payments “in the coming weeks”... More
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American Airlines pilots BLE beacons in Dallas
American Airlines is to run a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon pilot at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), allowing travellers to access a range of wayfinding and location-based services from their mobile device... More
InMarket reports positive consumer response to Bluetooth beacons
Shoppers who receive marketing messages via inMarket’s Mobile to Mortar (M2M) iBeacon platform interact more with advertised products, increase their in-store app usage and are more likely to keep an app on their phone, a survey of 25,000 US consumers has found... More
LevelUp to build BLE into payments terminals
US mobile payments service LevelUp is to provide its merchants with the ability to push offers to shoppers via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons built into the next version of its POS device... More
Verifone launches acoustic payments in Philadelphia
POS maker Verifone has expanded its Way2Ride mobile payments service to Philadelphia, allowing taxi users in the US city to pay for their journey using a sound-based proximity mobile communications technology... More
Spanish banks and carrier launch mobile offers platform that links discounts to bank cards
Yaap, a joint venture between Spanish banks CaixaBank and Banco Santander and mobile network operator Telefonica, has launched a mobile commerce platform that lets consumers access merchant offers on their mobile device and then redeem them automatically by simply paying for a purchase with a pre-linked debit or credit card... More
Ticketmaster adds animated watermarks to mobile tickets
Ticketmaster has launched an iPhone app that uses an animated watermark to prove that a mobile ticket is authentic and valid... More
Credit Mutuel-CIC rolls out NFC
French banking group Credit Mutuel-CIC has introduced an NFC payments service that is available to customers regardless of their mobile network operator... More
Chick-Fil-A tests mobile payments
Fast food chain Chick-fil-A has begun a mobile payments pilot in the Triad area of North Carolina... More
Rewards for HP beacon scavengers
Attendees at this week’s HP Discover 2014 Conference in Las Vegas have been able to earn rewards for visiting all areas of the show by taking part in a mobile scavenger hunt... More
iBeacons go to Cannes
Advertising industry executives attending the annual Cannes Lions festival in France next week will be able to use an iBeacon-powered “Around Me” feature within the event’s official iPhone app to detect nearby attendees and connect with them... More
Bendigo Bank launches QR code mobile payments in Australia
Australia’s Bendigo Bank has partnered with Samsung to rollout Redy, a mobile payments service that lets shoppers make payments and receive rewards by scanning a QR code generated by a merchant’s tablet-based POS terminal... More
PayPal CEO joins Facebook as head of messaging products
PayPal CEO David Marcus is leaving the online payments provider at the end of June to take up a new role at Facebook, as vice president of messaging products — prompting speculation that he will oversee building ecommerce and payments capabilities into the social network... More
Toronto restaurants offer mobile payments
Twenty upmarket restaurants in Toronto have signed up for mobile payments service Tab... More
Just Eat adds NFC window stickers
Restaurants using UK online takeaway ordering service Just Eat are being provided with digital window stickers that promote the availability of the service... More
Hawaii gets iBeacon happy hours
Happy Hour Pal, a Honolulu-based startup that lets businesses promote special offers to users of its mobile app, is using Bluetooth LE beacons and Apple’s iBeacon service to push happy hour offers to consumers, Pacific Business News reports... More
NICE rolls out Masabi mobile ticketing and payments in Nassau County
Veolia Transportation is rolling out a mobile ticketing and payment service on the NICE bus and paratransit system in New York’s Nassau County, in partnership with mobile ticketing and payment provider Masabi... More
App that turns off debit cards sees massive usage surge after Target breach
Usage of mobile banking technology provider Malauzai Software’s debit card on/off service, which allows customers of its financial institution clients to use their mobile phone to activate and deactivate their debit card on the go, has increased 850% in the last six months, the company reports... More
iOS 8 to “read” credit cards
Apple has included a new feature in iOS 8 that will allow shoppers to enter their payment details on an mcommerce site by simply scanning their credit card with the camera on their mobile device, 9to5Mac reports... More
iOS 8 to include location-based app promos
The latest edition of Apple’s iOS operating system, unveiled at WWDC this week, will provide a way for apps relevant to a user’s location to be promoted on their iPhone home screen, MacRumours reports... More