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• Mobile-ticketing platform Atom Tickets announced its app now works with 200 more theaters in 40 new markets across the country, including San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Denver, and Sacramento. Partners include AMC Theaters, Regal Cinemas, and Studio Movie Grill.
• In related news, mobile-ticketing specialist ExtremeTix Inc. introduced a new mobile app that allows consumers to reserve and pay for seats at events, along with a separate app for event companies that tracks sales and redemption data.
• Qikserve, whose “Waiter in Your Pocket” app allows dining customers to order and pay from a mobile device, announced an integration with FreedomPay’s Commerce Platform, which brings EMV certification along with Apple Pay to the app.
• Among 3,000 banking consumers surveyed, 40% are users of mobile banking, and of these 47% had, within the past month, used the service to pay for a product or service and 37% had used it to deposit a check, according to banking-solutions vendor Fiserv Inc. The quarterly survey was conducted for Fiserv by Harris Poll.
• The U.S. Patent and Trademark office awarded two patents to Digital Check Corp. for software related to adjusting different areas of a check image independently from one another.
• TMG, formerly The Members Group, a credit-union service organization, said more than half of the credit and debit cards in its portfolio are dual-interface EMV cards. In a survey of its clients, 30% anticipated issuing the contact and contactless cards.
• Green Dot Corp. appointed Mary J. Dent as chief executive of its Green Dot Bank subsidiary; Dent has served on Green Dot’s board and has held senior-management roles at online lending and investment platform provider Insikt Inc. and previously worked at Silicon Valley Bank.
• MasterCard Inc. appointed Warren Kneeshaw executive vice president of investor relations, effective Nov. 1. Kneeshaw, who joins MasterCard from Qualcomm, succeeds Barbara Gasper, who is retiring at year’s end.
