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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…
Ask any PC gamer anywhere in the world what their favorite digital marketplace is and they’ll tell you without hesitation, “ORIGIN!” OK, that obviously wouldn’t be their answer. We all know Valve’s Steam digital marketplace is where it’s at with their insane amount of sales, ease of use, and supreme social networking abilities. And now,…
Skrill, former Moneybookers, launched Skrill 1-Tap, a new product connected to Skrill’s digital wallet that brings “quick and easy mobile payments to merchants and customers.” When customers make a payment via Skrill with a merchant for the first time, they will be required to enter their payment details as usual. Once complete, they will then…
Don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of audio books and an audible.com subscriber. That said I’m happy to report that another audio book service has opened its virtual doors for business. The name of the company is easy to remember — Audiobooks.com — and unlike audible.com it provides a cloud-based streaming service.…
The basic check-in service is not good enough for Foursquare – the company needs to expand to actually start making some serious money. As part of their newly rolled Explore feature, they’ve teamed-up with SinglePlatform to deliver pricing menus for more than 250,000 local businesses across 13,000 markets in the U.S. Whether it’s a spa,…
We talked about Mercedes-Benz Financial Services’ (MBFS) mobile efforts for few times in the past. Two years ago, the company launched an iPhone app to allow its customers to make monthly payments while on the go. Then in early 2010, a mobile version of the mbfs.com website was launched so that more users (not just…
Love TripIt? If you’ve used it once – you probably can’t live without it. Its capability to quickly make itineraries from email confirmations rocks. If you happen to be a manager at some small company (or its owner), you may want the same capability for your employees, while at the same time being able to…
We’ve seen a number of credit card processing solutions for the iPhone and Android, but what about BlackBerry? CHARGE Anywhere thinks this is untapped market and is out with the Audio Jack Magnetic Card Reader, allowing RIM device owners to easily accept credit cards while on the go. Compatible with CHARGE Anywhere’s Mobile Payment Application…
Economic hardship won’t affect mobile banking with Juniper Research predicting customers will flock to such services in volumes, eventually reaching 530 million users by 2013, up from 300 million in 2011. According to the research company, mobile services are becoming a fundamental component of banks’ business strategies as they respond to the current financial crisis.…
LetsTalk.com and YouMail struck a deal that will benefit each of the company’s services — an even exchange, if you will. LetsTalk.com, will soon begin preloading the YouMail visual voicemail service on select Android and BlackBerry devices. In return, the new YouMail online store for phones and accessories will be powered by LetsTalk.com. Both parties…