Twenty upmarket restaurants in Toronto have signed up for mobile payments service Tab... More
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- NFC Forum survey finds majority of consumers now prefer making payments with their mobile phone
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Affirm updates credit scoring
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has raised US$45m for Affirm, a startup that lets retailers offer a credit option to online shoppers... More
Windows Phone to get motion interface?
Microsoft is to add “Kinect-like features” to Windows Phone devices later this year, “sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans” have told The Verge... 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
Aite reports on US migration to EMV
Some 70% of US credit cards and 41% of debit cards will be EMV enabled by the end of 2015, according to a new Aite Group report, but the majority will be contact cards rather than dual interface cards that also support contactless payments. More
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OSPT updates Cipurse
Version 2, revision 2 of the Cipurse open ticketing standard has been published by the OSPT Alliance... More
HID to demo BLE for access control
HID Global is to show a version of its Seos digital keys platform that works with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) at IFSEC 2014 next week... More
China Telecom picks Gemalto NFC SIMs
Gemalto is among the suppliers selected by China Telecom to supply SIMs to support the rollout of NFC services to its 183 million subscribers... More
Bell ID and Aditium win awards
Bell ID and Spanish ticketing specialist Aditium have picked up awards at a live pitch contest to identify ‘the next big thing’ in proximity... More
Digicash raises €2.2m to expand NFC, QR and BLE payments platform
Luxembourg-based Digicash Payments has raised €2.2m to expand its mobile payments platform on a “national and on an international level.” The service supports transactions via NFC, QR and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and has been adopted by four local banks. 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. The roll out follows a pilot that took place in February this year. More
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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
Square adds invoices
Square has added invoicing to its Register service, allowing sellers to “get paid fast with free unlimited invoices and no monthly service fee”... More
Moto Stream connects with NFC
Motorola has launched a portable wireless adaptor to allow people to stream music from their mobile devices to their home stereo systems... More
Amazon to unveil 3D smartphone?
Amazon is holding a launch event on 18 June for a new product, expected to be its first smartphone... More
CardFlight to add Touch ID to mPOS
US mPOS provider CardFlight is to make use of Apple’s new Touch ID API to provide an extra level of security to merchants using its SwipeSimple service with an Apple iPhone... 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
iKaaz takes mobile payments to Kenya
Bangalore-based iKaaz is to expand its NFC payments platform to Kenya... More