Identive Group, which is supplying NFC stickers to the Google Places NFC trial in Austin, Texas, has opened an online store for NFC products... More
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Getyoo raises €600k for interactive NFC events solution
Belgian NFC specialist Getyoo has completed a €600,000 funding round, led by Eric Bigeard, the former CEO of international office supplies business Lyreco... More
Eftpos Australia calls for creation of impartial NFC industry council
Bruce Mansfield, managing director of debit card payments system Eftpos Payments Australia (ePal), has called on payments providers and mobile network operators to form an impartial NFC industry council, ZDNet Australia reports... More
Vodafone tests NFC in New Zealand
Vodafone is testing NFC technology in New Zealand, the mobile network operator’s local chief executive Russell Stanners has told The New Zealand Herald... More
Apple gets patent for adding NFC to metal displays
Apple has been granted a patent covering the addition of an NFC antenna to electronic devices such as computer monitors where standard methods of integrating NFC may cause problems generating a sufficiently robust signal strength... More
FC Barcelona to test NFC at Camp Nou
Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona has signed an agreement with the R&D arm of mobile network Telefónica that will see the club’s Camp Nou stadium being the first to test a wide range of leading edge mobile communications technologies... More
Two new Nokia NFC phones on their way?
Screenshots and renders of two potential new Nokia NFC phones are making their way around the internet... More
Sprint to begin enabling Google Wallet today?
A software update notification sent by US mobile network operator Sprint to dealers suggests that mobile payments capabilities will begin to be enabled on the Nexus S 4G, at least, from today... More
Consumers to spend $50bn a year via NFC phones by 2014
The value of payments made via mobile phones worldwide will reach US$670bn by 2015, up from $240bn this year, according to a new forecast by Juniper Research... More
BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC phone to ship on September 15?
Amazon UK has added the BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC smartphone to its website... More
Yankee Group: Global mobile transactions to exceed US$1 trillion by 2015
The value of global mobile transactions will grow from US$241 billion in 2011 to more than $1 trillion by 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 56%, according to Yankee Group‘s latest Mobile Money Forecast, part of a new Mobile Money Strategies research service... More
Barclaycard promotes NFC payments with spoof history of money video
Barclaycard has produced a ‘mockumentary’ on the history of money, to promote the NFC-based Quick Tap service it launched with Orange in May... More
Survey: One-third of Canadians ready to pay by phone
A survey conducted for PayPal Canada has found that more than one-third of Canadians are ready to begin making payments with their mobile phones and over half would like to use a digital wallet, the Toronto Sun reports:... More
SK Telecom to open NFC Zone in Seoul
Korean mobile network operator SK Telecom is to open an ‘NFC Zone’ in Seoul, the company’s head of global partnerships has told delegates attending the GSMA’s Mobile Money Summit in Singapore... More
Hicel launches NFC business cards
Korean manufacturer Hicel has introduced a digital business card that combines the features of traditional cards with NFC functionality... More
BPCE and Visa to test NFC microSD in Nice and Strasbourg
BPCE, France’s second largest banking group and owner of both Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, is teaming up with Visa to conduct a pilot test of NFC MicroSD cards in the cities of Nice and Strasbourg this autumn... More
German savings banks begin move to NFC
The German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) is to convert all its customers’ debit cards into contactless payments cards, as a forerunner to the introduction of NFC payments, Der Handel reports... More
Vivotech raises $24m in funding
NFC specialist Vivotech has closed a US$24 million Series C round of funding... More
NFC-enabled advertising network plans IPO
Out-of-house (OOH) media company RMG Networks, which unveiled an NFC-enabled advertising network in April, is in talks with banks about an initial public offering (IPO) to raise more than US$250m, Bloomberg reports:... More
Survey: Discounts and coupons will drive adoption of mobile payments
A survey of 1,036 US adult consumers, conducted by StrategyOne on behalf of Verifone, has found that almost twice as many are interested in using mobile payments if the service also includes a way to get discounts and coupons on their phones... More