Mobile payments firm Boku plans to partner with Japan’s LINE Pay, a money transfer service, to allow the more than 37 million LINE Pay users in Japan to pay for merchant digital goods and services through the Boku platform. Both the public and private sectors...
SoftBank mobile phone owners can now pay for everything from movies to membership fees on Amazon.com with help from mobile commerce firm Bango, according to an announcement. The United Kingdom-based mobile commerce company recently completed the installation of the new payment option on SoftBank phones,...
Deal or no deal? For Big Tech, India beckons — increasingly so, and it is the mobile space that seemingly is poised to get a lot more crowded. News came over the past few days that Amazon may look to buy (not build) a presence...
“It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens in one of the more famous openings to a novel in history. It was a fairly good description of life in Europe on the eve of the French Revolution...
Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus said it would debut its mobile payment system this year when its OnePlus 7T series of mobile phones rolled out in September 2019. The company’s mobile payment platform is now said to be live in China, GizChina reported. The payment platform...
MoneyGram, known for its transfers via mobile app, has a new program called FastSend that will enable it to engage in cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers directly to a recipient’s phone number. The company aims to keep up efficiency and speed with the new service, advertised as...
The mobile point of sale (mPOS) landscape got more interesting today (Jan. 12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an enterprise-grade smartphone that comes pre-installed with Visa’s Tap to Phone app. Tap to Phone enables sellers with Android phones to accept contactless payments...
Indian financial firm Paytm will intensify efforts to become a major player in one of the world’s biggest payments markets, according to reports on Wednesday, Jan 8. After raising $1b last November, the Noida-headquartered firm confirmed its business app now features a comprehensive QR code...
Caixin Global reports that Chinese mobile transaction company Tencent has decided to combine part of its authentication software with government-owned rival UnionPay. This collaboration will expand UnionPay’s market penetration and further a Chinese government initiative for same-sector partnership. The collaboration will let consumers of UnionPay’s...
