| Telefónica Digital, the business division of wireless carrier Telefónica, is teaming with Samsung Electronics to make direct carrier billing easier. Direct carrier billing allows users to purchase virtual goods and place the cost of … | |
| Amidst the hoopla over new e-commerce and P2P features enabled on Google Wallet, it was easy to miss today's announcement that the Google Wallet for offline shopping was expanded to include new handsets. The "old" Google Wallet — meaning the … | |
| The Chinese appetite for smartphones — and the applications they run — is becoming ever bigger. In response, two of the country's major carriers are partnering on a new standardized mobile payment plug-in to be used by app developers for … | |
| In the supposedly disruptive world of mobile payments, the status quo reigns — at least as far as Isis is concerned. Delivering the keynote at the Electronic Transaction Association's annual meeting in New Orleans this week, Isis CEO Michael … | |
| German bank Dortmunder Volksbank has announced the release of a new mobile virtual credit card based on MasterCard contactless PayPass technology, using the Giesecke & Devrient trusted service manager solution, and with the cooperation of … | |
 | Writing clearly requires more effort than just writing; this becomes more evident the more complicated the subject. The Wall Street Journal provided a good example of that recently with its article "What's in Your Digital Wallet? Lucrative Data" The … |
| USA Technologies Inc. bills itself as a service provider for "small-ticket, self-serve retailing industries." That means vending machines. And now the company will be offering consumers something else to go with their sodas and candy: rewards for … | |
 | U.K.-based direct carrier-biller txtNation is combining two mobile payment technologies into one streamlined solution for Britain's early adopters. The company is working with RapidNFC, a provider of NFC tags and technology, on a product that would … |
 | Launched by mobile network operator Vodafone in 2007, M-Pesa is a mobile money program that allows users to send and receive money through text messages on their mobile devices. Deposits and withdrawals are handled through a network of authorized M … |
| Turkish mobile network operator Turkcell has announced the launch of a new mobile payment system for transportation with the integration of its Turkcell Wallet and the Urfakart public transportation card. "We, as Turkcell, are leading the way in … | |
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Mobile Payments in the App Store Economy: Winning Strategies for Telcos
With operator portals accounting for less than 7% of the 56 billion app download market in 2012, there is a pressing need today for operators to establish new revenue streams and monetize Over-The …Type: White PaperSponsored by: Amdocs
