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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. This is one of a series of posts by our partner Carol Coye Benson. Thus far she has profiled Boku, CashEdge products, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. Today she takes a look at [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass (below), Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile (below). [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong (below), Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution (below), and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check [...]
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Just before the 4th of July holiday my partner Bryan Derman and I had a wide-ranging conversation with Matt Dill, SVP and head of Western Union’s Digital Ventures.
Western Union capitalizes on two key trends: an increasing number of people that live and work abroad (per the World Bank an estimated 200 million people) and the [...]
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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. Our partner Carol Coye Benson profiles the CashEdge POPmoney product today. She has also taken a look at Boku, Canada’s Zoompass, Zong, Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check out Carol’s [...]
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I recently was driving down Hamilton St. in Palo Alto when out of the corner of my eye I spotted Zong’s new office. This was the first time I’d ever seen a storefront office with “Mobile Payments” on it – made me smile!!
Zong is doing interesting things enabling mobile consumers around the world to [...]
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Advertising Age picked Bank of America’s mobile banking efforts as one of the leaders in its Digital A-List 2009.
Rita Chang writes:
Underlying all of the marketer’s moves into mobile services and marketing is a key insight: Give people more control over their banking on their own terms, and you’ll win their loyalty.
How about you? Are [...]
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Apple created a lot of buzz in the industry last week when it previewed the new capabilities of iPhone OS 3.0. Leading the list of new features, surprisingly, was a payments-related enhancement called “In App Purchase”.
I missed the briefing, but saw this new capability reported in the blogosphere as “subscriptions”, “micro-billing”, and a [...]
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Amid the PayPal and Google news over the last day, you might have missed out on some interesting mobile developments.
BlackBerry App Store: Finance & Banking Offerings
The new BlackBerry application store (with payments by PayPal) is just being rolled out. The Finance & Banking section features Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Fidelity, eTrade and Citibank via [...]
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I live in a small town in southern Oregon. On Saturday, I was at the Middle School, manning the snack booth for the regional band competition. I did pretty well – over 50 sales! But what fascinated me was that three people asked, somewhat plaintively, if I took debit cards… They were all young moms. They [...]
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A new report from Aite indicates that small businesses are interested in checking their balances, transferring fund and paying bills via their mobile phone.
More than 60% of small businesses currently bank online, and are showing a greater demand for multichannel banking, including mobile banking services. In fact, approximately one-third of those interviewed expressed a likelihood [...]
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The website howstuffworks (from the folks at the Discovery Channel) has a primer on mobile banking – it's geared toward consumers but it's interesting for us industry insiders to see how they characterize the service offerings and technology.
The article is divided into 6 chapters
Introduction to How Mobile Banking Works (conceptual intro)
Mobile Banking Background (history, [...]
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Due to a last minute change of plans I am not in NYC for Finovate2008 (and very disappointed) but you can follow along with Jim Bruene who is live blogging at NetBanker.
I will add links to additional live and post-meeting coverage over the next couple days, so bookmark this post.
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