New unlimited text plans have revived the mobile marketing industry in the U.S., according to the New York Times. (In the past, marketeers had held back from the mobile route…

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Obopay, the Redwood City, CA-based mobile payments companh, has received a big $29 million in its third round of funding. This round was led by Richmond Global Cellular, an affiliate…

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Ebay’s online payment subsidiary PayPal has finally come out with its upgraded service for cellular users. Mobile Checkout facilitates secure payments directly from mobile Internet sites; similar to PayPal, buyers…

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--ABI Research has predicted that the market for mobile fund transfers will grow to a revenue opportunity of nearly $8 billion by 2012 from a start of $10 million last…

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Verizon Wireless’ decision to partner with Obopay (announcing an m-payment service enabled as a BREW application) will likely pay dividends, according to research from Strategy Analytics. It bases much of…

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South Korean company Danal has convinced investment firm Morgenthaler Ventures to invest $6 million in its U.S. subsidiary, which will mark the entry of the mobile payments company into the…

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Mobile payment company Obopay will get a boost with a deal with Verizon to make the payment application through Verizon’s mobile store or the mobile web service, reports the WSJ.…

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Premium SMS made up 32 percent of US mobile content revenue in the first quarter of this year, bringing in $273 million according to Telephia. Most of this revenue (79…

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Toronto-based developer Silverbirch has signed a letter of intent to acquire 60 percent of the shares of Dallas-based Crossroads Mobile, a mobile content, auction and mobile and landline billing company…

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US mobile carriers clocked $273 million in premium SMS revenue during the first quarter of the year, according to data from market research firm Telephia. The majority of messages came…

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There have been several mobile banking announcements in the US announced recently, but uptake is still small: “Only 400,000 consumers are using mobile banking out of almost 240 million mobile…

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Google isn’t just paying lip service to mobile and apps, it is quietly and cleverly taking steps to ensure it occupies a central position in the emerging mobile search/mobile advertising/mobile…

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Malaysian telco Maxis has teamed up with Filipino telco Globe Telecom to give people an easy way to wire money between the two operators (or wire money from Maxis to…

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This October KTF will trial the mobile payment system Pay-Buy Mobile in Seoul along with all the players in the value chain (banks, credit card companies, retail organizations, handset makers,…

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Users may expect a free lunch when they surf the internet, but – on the mobile web – they are conditioned to pay for content they consume. But users may…

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Bank of America has launched a mobile service for its 20 million online customers, bofa.mobi. The mobile service will allow customers to check balances and view transactions (on checking, saving,…

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Analyst Celent has predicted strong growth for mobile banking in the US, growing from less than one percent of online bankers in 2006 to 35 percent of online bankers by…

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This month the UK Post Office launched a mobile payment system for companies. Dubbed Payout, the system allows companies to send barcodes to mobile phones (or via paper) which can…

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Mobile payment company Obopay has launched a plug-in service for AOL’s instant messaging service, AIM. The plug-in lets users add money to their Obopay accounts and check account balance and…

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Malaysian mobile operator Maxis has announced a strategic alliance with MayBank to let users pay for content and services using their mobile phones, Banking Business Review reports. The service, called…

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Telefonica’s Movistar Argentina and Santander Rìo, the local unit belonging to Spain’s Banco Santander, have launched a mobile banking service in Argentina, Cellular News reports. The service lets users conduct…

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Predictions of mobile commerce are all over the place, not least because it depends on what you define as m-commerce (buying mobile content, or using the mobile phone as a…

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A number of telcos, handset manufacturers, and Mastercard have joined a mobile banking standard which combines the Mifare chip by NXP and Felica by Sony..."By combining this secure chip with…

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Bango has released a trading update for the year ending March 31st, before it announced its annual results on June 12th. The revenues for the year are expected to be…

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JupiterResearch has found that just 8 percent of online consumers who own a mobile phone are interested in browsing on the device to check their account balance (the release references…

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