Mobile Payments

A mobile payment is a money payment made for a product or service through a portable electronic device such as a tablet or cell phone. Mobile payment technology can also be used to send money to friends or family members, such as with the applications PayPal and Venmo.

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WhatsApp Speeds Up Indian Payments Expansion

WhatsApp Speeds Up Indian Payments Expansion
WhatsApp Speeds Up Indian Payments Expansion
May 29, 2018  |  South Asia

Payments via Facebook‘s WhatsApp are on the very brink of launching, according to recent reports. As early as next week, pay via WhatsApp might be...

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Kenya Moves To Regulate Digital Lending
Kenya Moves To Regulate Digital Lending
May 25, 2018  |  Cross-border Payments

After adopting a mobile money system that allows people to make payments and transfers through their cell phones, Kenya has become a leader in financial...

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Visa Invests In YellowPepper To Accelerate Mobile Payments Adoption
Visa Invests In YellowPepper To Accelerate Mobile Payments Adoption
May 24, 2018  |  VISA

To accelerate the adoption of mobile payments and tokenization in Latin America and the Caribbean, Visa has made an investment in YellowPepper, which will help...

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PayPal To Aquire iZettle For $2.2 Billion
PayPal To Aquire iZettle For $2.2 Billion
May 17, 2018  |  Partnerships

Days after iZettle said it planned to seek a listing on the NASDAQ Stockholm stock exchange, PayPal Holdings Inc. has announced that it is acquiring...

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Veea And CITCON Bring Alipay And WeChat Pay To More US Merchants
Veea And CITCON Bring Alipay And WeChat Pay To More US Merchants
May 17, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

Veea Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with CITCON, a cross-border mobile payment company, that will make Alipay and WeChat Pay available to more U.S....

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Jack Dorsey Advocates Internet Currency
Jack Dorsey Advocates Internet Currency
May 17, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

In the future, Square CEO Jack Dorsey thinks that the internet deserves a “native currency.” If that were to happen, he is rooting for one...

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Inside China’s Effort To Marry Digital ID With Mobile Payments
Inside China’s Effort To Marry Digital ID With Mobile Payments
May 14, 2018  |  Mobile

It’s a prospective marriage that Chinese government authorities and digital commerce executives are pushing hard, including via a recently announced test involving Alibaba: combining the...

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Push Becomes Pull With QR Code Alternative
Push Becomes Pull With QR Code Alternative
May 14, 2018  |  Mobile

The QR code has had its place in retail, advertising and payments, but one Israeli tech company feels it’s time to take this low-tech solution...

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