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Telefonica Adds Samsung As A Carrier Billing OEM For Apps, Games, Music And More

# 2013-05-16 05:10:24, TechCrunch
Telefonica is today announcing a deal with Samsung that will see it make an even bigger move into the area of carrier billing. Samsung will integrate the carrier's billing backend directly into its own mobile services, meaning that the Telefonica customers (it has 316 million worldwide) who use the ...

Death By A Thousand Cuts? Google Wallet's Plan To Take On PayPal Leverages Chrome, Android, Google+,...

# 2013-05-15 11:16:57, TechCrunch
Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements from today's Google I/O developer conference is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants, such as PayPal. It plans to do so with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile web, within mob...

Square Stand turns your iPad into a cash register, on pre-order for $299

# 2013-05-14 06:52:00, Engadget
Square just announced a new product meant to replace traditional point-of-service systems: the aptly named Square Stand. The hardware turns an iPad (2 or 3; support for the Lightning connector is coming later this year) into an all-in-one POS with an integrated card reader that accepts cash, pla...

PayPal's Cash For Registers Tries To Outdo Square And Groupon With Its Own Bid To Rule The Register

# 2013-05-14 06:32:20, TechCrunch
PayPal today announced Cash for Registers to encourage merchants to switch to PayPal-powered point-of-sale solutions. The program is part of the payment giant's bid to be the kingpin among local merchants looking for lower-cost ways of accepting credit card payments. The announcement comes on the ...

PayPal's new Android SDK offers multiple in-app payment options

# 2013-05-13 15:09:00, Engadget
PayPal just announced a new Android SDK for developers. Previously released for iOS, the kit lets app devs integrate mobile payments via both PayPal and credit card. As the mockup above demonstrates, it's very straightforward -- and we're pretty sure that's the point. The SDK will support Androi...

Groupon Squares Up To Rivals With Groupon POS, An iPad App And Dashboard For On-Site, Mobile Payment...

# 2013-05-13 02:05:16, TechCrunch
Groupon is once again expanding its portfolio of mobile payment services, putting it in closer competition with the likes of Square and PayPal's here targeting local merchants: today it has released Groupon POS, which appears to be an iPad-specific version of its mobile payments service aimed at loc...

Shopping Around For Cheap Prices [Not Mobile Payments] Is The Most Popular In-Store Activity Among M...

# 2013-05-09 04:02:51, TechCrunch
Most people may not yet be using smartphones to pay for goods when they are out shopping, but that doesn't mean that they are not glued to their handsets anyway. Some research out today from Google indicates that among smartphone owners, some 79% can be classified as "mobile shoppers," using their d...

Cover Raises $1.5M From OATV And Others To Bring Uber-Like Payments To Restaurants

# 2013-05-08 06:59:59, TechCrunch
New York City-based startup Cover seeks to simplify the process through the magic of mobile payments. It plans to do so with a payments platform and mobile application that would reduce all the fuss and calculations that happen when the check comes.

European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push In...

# 2013-04-25 23:00:20, TechCrunch
SumUp, one of the many European mobile card reader startups targeting small businesses -- and taking advantage of Square’s continued absence to acquire users and build out a business -- has taken another step designed to expand its reach by announcing a partnership with Revel Systems, a maker of i...