card.io, mobile commerce company which we’ve already covered in the past, released an Android SDK, enabling developers making apps for Google’s mobile platform to easily accept credit card payments.
If you don’t know what card.io is all about, you should know that it allows consumers to take a picture of their credit card to process payments, without any extra hardware. Since its iOS platform launch in June over 80 apps have integrated the card.io SDK, with more than 750 new developers signed-up.
Among the apps that already use card.io’s service are Venmo, a social payments platform, Merchant Billing, a billing, payments and processing company; and Qthru, a retail application that is geared toward improving the way people shop.
Finally in case you wonder, the company is founded by two former AdMob employees, Mike Mettler and Josh Bleecher Snyder; and backed by angel investors Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal, Jeff Clavier and Charles Hudson of SoftTech VC, Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures, Alok Bhanot (former VP, Risk Technology at PayPal), and Omar Hamoui (CEO and founder of AdMob).
card.io payments (FREE) [Android Market link] [iTunes link]