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A startup called Zooz this week announced it has registered more than 1,000 developers for a payment plug-in that, the company says, streamlines card-based payments while users are within an app. Zooz, whose product is available for both Android and Apple iOS devices, also launched an HTML5 version to allow …
Read More »Weeks Away from Launch, Isis Announces Its First Batch of Merchants
For months, the carrier-backed Isis mobile-payments initiative could boast just one accepting merchant, the Utah Transit Authority in Salt Lake City, one of two cities it plans to launch its service in this summer. That changed on Tuesday with the announcement that Isis has signed some 50 retail companies both …
Read More »Late to the Wallet Wars, MasterCard Unveils a Service It Touts As Open, Flexible
Nearly a year after major U.S. rivals introduced mobile wallets, MasterCard Inc. officially entered the market on Monday with a service that aims to trump competing products by being open to a wide range of payment brands and by offering tools that can let third parties develop their own digital …
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