US startup Lisnr has secured US$10m in Series B funding for a technology that uses inaudible sound waves called SmartTones to connect devices... More
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Face++ raises $25m for selfie payments
Face++, the Chinese facial recognition technology startup behind Alibaba’s selfie payments service, has secured an additional $25m in a series B funding round, taking the total raised to $47m... More
Apple in buy out talks with Clinkle?
Apple has reportedly been in acquisition talks with troubled mobile payments startup Clinkle amidst claims that seven of the company’s staff quit their roles last week following frustration with CEO Lucas Duplan... More
Snapchat adopts QR friending
Photo messaging platform Snapchat is letting users add friends to their social network by scanning Snaptags, unique QR codes assigned to each user... More
Google in talks to buy Softcard to combat Apple Pay?
Google is responding to the successful launch of Apple Pay by going on the mobile payments acquisition trail, according to industry rumours — and US carrier-owned NFC venture Softcard, which laid off 60 staff last week, could be a key target... More
Square eyes global expansion
Square has updated its Register apps for iOS and Android to support 130 currencies and is in talks to bring its mPOS solution to Europe, TechCrunch reports... More
MCX prepares to open its wallet to NFC and bank cards
MCX is now open to supporting both NFC and Bluetooth Low Energy for payments and is in conversation with credit card issuers about opening up its CurrentC mobile wallet to payment cards, CEO Dekkers Davidson and COO Scott Rankin have told reporters... More
Amazon Rewards to join Apple Pay
Amazon has confirmed to TechCrunch that its Rewards Visa Card, powered by Chase, is to support Apple Pay in the future and the company is already working on making this happen... More
Messenger to add payments
The ability to make payments from within Facebook Messenger is on its way, according to screenshots and video footage spotted by Techcrunch... More
Video demos show how Apple Pay users will make a payment with the iPhone 6
Videos of Apple staff demonstrating how Apple Pay will be used to make payments in stores and for in-app purchases have now been made available, providing further details of how the new mobile payments service will work... More
Facebook closes gifts business
Facebook is to close down its gifts service on August 12, Techcrunch reports... More
Snapchat to add payments?
Messaging app Snapchat has applied to extend its trademark into two classes relating to payments, Techcrunch reports... More
Google Glass to add payments?
Google Glass wearers will soon be able to make payments from their Google Wallet account, by simply saying “send money”, Techcrunch reports... More
Robokeg serves beer via NFC
US-based technology startup Robokeg has shown an NFC-powered beer pouring machine at a recent New York Tech Meetup event... More
T-Mobile picks Tagstand
T-Mobile is to use a custom version of Tagstand’s NFC Task Launcher app to power its forthcoming Tap Tag NFC service... More
NFC app handles a million tasks
Tagstand’s NFC Task Launcher app has been used to execute over one million actions, reports Techcrunch... More
Any.Do shares tasks via NFC
A new version of task manager app Any.Do, voted best Android app of 2011 by Techcrunch, allows users with an NFC phone running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to share tasks via Android Beam... More
Tagstand raises $1.1m
NFC startup Tagstand has raised a further US$1.1m, following seed stage funding from tech incubator Y Combinator, reports TechCrunch... More
Amex serves up mobile wallet API
American Express is to make an API available for its Serve digital wallet platform, Harshul Sanghi, the new VP of the company’s enterprise growth group has told Techcrunch... More
Paypal pops up payments store
Paypal is to open a demonstration space in the heart of New York to show off its new retail payment technologies... More