Coca-Cola

Aeropostale, Coca-Cola, Foot Locker, Jamba Juice and Macy's have signed up to take part in the US NFC joint venture's pilot trials, along with a number of local grocery stores, retailers, gas stations, coffee shops and restaurants. More

A survey conducted in six European countries has found that consumers like the idea of interactive out-of-home advertising — but they expect a 'value exchange' in return for interacting with advertising and the most popular incentives are money or entertainment. More

Coca-Cola has launched an NFC out-of-home advertising campaign in Singapore. The campaign promotes the company's Coca-Cola and Fanta drinks brands and uses the NFC-enabled Mobile Life! network of two hundred advertising panels introduced by Clear... More

US-based vending machine technology provider Cantaloupe Systems has equipped 6,000 units in San Francisco, Chicago and the mid-Atlantic region to accept Google Wallet, AllthingsD reports, while Chicago-based Mark Vend plans to convert half its 2,000... More

"We're doing a trial with Google Wallet and it's great for those consumers who don't have cash but want to buy a Coke," Coca-Cola SVP Wendy Clark told attendees at Ad:tech in New York this week, Mobile... More

Coca-Cola is in talks with Visa to put contactless payment equipped vending machines into the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Games, reports Marketing. Both companies are official sponsors of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic... More

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: PingPing adds Coca-Cola • Indian banks offer mobile payments • GSMA investigates embedded SIMs • VeriFone buys Hypercom • Brands test Google Goggles • 500m to use mobile medical apps by 2015 • CPI hits 100M contactless cards • and more... More

The Belgian telecoms operator has launched a series of mobile payment initiatives under the new PingPing banner and has partnered with Accor Services, Coca-Cola and supermarket chain Delhaize to test three different applications for NFC tag payments. More