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Mobile card terminal dongle – the perfect skimming device

Already there is very many dongle’s out there like Square, iZettle, PayPal Here, VeriFone Sail and less known as PayAnywhere, Thumbzup’s Pebble and Payleven and many more. A lot of talks about the increasing fraud via skimming devices at ATM’s … Continue reading

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday and soon adding Mobile Maniac Tuesday?

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are held the Friday and Monday after Thanksgiving. Shoppers can find great in store deals on Black Friday, which will be on Friday, November 23rd, 2012. They’ll also find incredible online deals on Cyber … Continue reading

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iZettle gets competition – new card dongle includes chip & PIN

The mobile card reader market is heat’n up in the Nordics! Point in Sweden (owned by VeriFone) today launch a mobile card dongle named Sail for Android and iOS. The Sail dongle goes head-on with iZettle and includes chip and … Continue reading

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Softbank buys Sprint for $20,1B

Interesting news from Japan and US. Japan’s Softbank this morning confirmed plans to acquire US operator Sprint, taking a 70 percent share in the carrier for US$20.1 billion. In the mobile payment sphere..does this mean that Google Wallet goes Japan? … Continue reading

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Mastercard is doing a PayPal?

MasterCard say it will simplify shopping with its launch of PayPass Wallet Services. The launch today includes the ingredients: PayPass Acceptance Network (PayPass Online and PayPass Contactless) – Provides a globally consistent way to help merchants accept electronic payments across … Continue reading

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NFC is coming to China too

After trying to create an own standard for NFC payments it now looks like the Chines market players will go for the standard frequency. Also the same (and many) dependencies looks like the same as for other markets. I still … Continue reading

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Sweden a smart phone country

A new study shows that 51% of Swedish population now owns a smart phone. The study also shows that 80% of new mobiles sold in Sweden now is smart phones. Source, SIFO/Ikano, January 2011.

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Swedish carriers to use same mobile wallet service

4T the joint venture company, including all Swedish mobile network operators, Telia, Tele2, Telenor and 3 has decided to base their mobile wallet service on services and technology from PayEx and Accumulate. The service will from the start cover all … Continue reading

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Visa to certify all NFC phones for card emulation..

Visa has now certified 10 phone models for PayWave and Mastercard has certified 2 models for PayPass, is this great news or? Do they also have to be certified for “card emulation mode” (read NFC scheme), first by Visa and … Continue reading

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Visa’s V.me is here

Visa’s copycat on the PayPal online wallet combined with the Google Wallet? Check it out.

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