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Parent Category: Emerging Payments
A great recent roundup of the major camps in the mobile space: July 8th Venturebeat article
| Monitise http://www.monitise.com/ Extensive mobile banking and payment software and services.
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| ZooZ http://www.zooz.com/ Secure in-app payments with payouts in over 150 countries. [May 30] VentureBeat article
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| Bitcoin http://www.bitcoin.org/ Anonymous, P2P virtual currency Currency Exchange at: https://mtgox.com/ June 10 article: PC World June 15 article: Gigaom
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| M-Pesa http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=250 Vodaphone's mobile payment services. Based in Africa, with expansion plans to India and elsewhere. Extremely popular in Kenya, where over a quarter of the population uses it. Mobile phone-based, supports the unbanked.
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| clearXchange http://clearxchange.com/ BofA, Chase and Wells Fargo team up for P2P payments.
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| Fig Card (Acquired by PayPal) http://figcard.com/ Mobile payments, acquired by PayPal. Kudos for keeping a link to Square on their landing page!
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| Google Wallet http://www.google.com/wallet/ Mobile payments using NFC. In partnership with Citi, Sprint, First Data, and Mastercard
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| Alipay (owned by Alibaba) http://market.alipay.com/ospay/aboutAlipay/alibabaGroupCompetitiveEdge.html Alipay has introduced a barcode-based mobile payment system in China Penn Olson article The Next Web article
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| Fundamo (Acquired by Visa) http://www.fundamo.com/ Fundamo is a leading mobile financial services provider, focused primarily on developing countries. Acquired by Visa.
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| Boku mobile billing http://www.boku.com/ BOKU lets you buy online with your mobile phone number. The charge goes to your phone bill. In 60 + countries with more than 220 different carriers. Partership with Verizon Created API for easy integration
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| OpenCuro http://www.opencuro.com Private payments using randomly generated, one-time use "Curo" code. Email, phone, text. No personal information needs to be shared with the payee.
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| card.io https://www.card.io/ Like Square, but without the dongle: uses mobile (and web-based) card-scanning as a mechanism to capture payment info. Also provides SDK enabling others to develop services which incorporate card-scanning functionality from card.io. - [Mar 2012] Techcrunch article - All Things D article
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| Popmoney https://www.popmoney.com/ Popmoney from CashEdge is a mobile person-to-person payment service developed specifically for banks. Popmoney enables payments using a recipient's email address, cellphone number or bank account information.
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| Gcash http://www.globe.com.ph/gcash/ GCASH is a service provided by Globe Telecom in the Philippines. It is a phone-based payment service (supports the unbanked), enabling domestic and international payments via SMS.
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| Intuit GoPayment http://gopayment.com/ Intuit GoPayments enables merchants to accept payments on the go.
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| Zong (acquired by Paypal) http://zong.com/ Enables payment through utilities/carriers. Over 40 countries covered. Partership with Verizon Acquired by Paypal.
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| Sina Weibo currency http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/07/13/ker-ching-sina-weibo-to-launch-virtual-currency-the-weibi/ Forbes blog Penn Olson article Reuters article
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| Fortumo http://fortumo.com/ Focused on app and game developers to bill through carriers in over 50 countries.
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| Payfone http://www.payfone.com/ Leading mobile payment provider, enabling carrier billing. American Express as a backer and strategic partner: Partnership press release
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| Flattr http://flattr.com/ Well, not strictly mobile payments, but.... [July 2010] Techcrunch article ---------- "How does it work? Pick how much you’d like to spend per month, for example €3. Then, whenever you see a Flattr button on a blog or website that you like, click it. We count up all of your clicks at the end of each month and distribute your monthly spend between everything you’ve clicked on. Simple, right? Of course, you’re also welcome to add a Flattr button to your site and get other people’s support too."
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| Stripe https://stripe.com/ Payments for developers - Stripe makes it easy to accept payments on the web today.
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