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Google’s NFC Entry Impresses Experts, But Leaves Key Questions Unanswered

Google Inc.’s entry in mobile payments and marketing, which the online search titan unveiled last Thursday, swept many observers off their feet with its comprehensive roundup of key players but also left a number of crucial questions unanswered. Experts agree, though, that the uncertainty swirling around these questions only underscores …

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AisleBuyer Launches An Upgrade That Combines POS, E-Commerce Shopping

With the traditional lines between e-commerce and the point of sale blurring, a Boston-based startup on Tuesday introduced a mobile wallet that lets consumers shop at multiple stores, both brick-and-mortar and online, and skip past checkout lines. AisleBuyer LLC’s app, which works on iPhones and handsets running Google Inc.’s Android …

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Prepaid Cards’ Big Bullseye

Can the fast pace of innovation  that has characterized the prepaid card  sector in recent years continue  as lawmakers and regulators  increasingly target the business? By Linda Punch After years of skirting the edges of the industry, the prepaid card market finally is getting a toehold in the mainstream of …

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What NFC Should Look Like

M-Commerce What NFC Should Look Like Steve Mott By most accounts, the wireless-carrier-based near-field communication (NFC) mobile payments initiative known as Isis (formally announced late last year but rumored for months before) is still falling short of the mark with respect to a winning formula for prying payments away from …

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Trends & Tactics

Trends & Tactics PayPal Eyes Payments from Couch Potatoes Might PayPal Inc.’s next advertising theme be, “As Seen on TV”?Having recently struck deals that will bring it to the physical point of sale, the payments unit of eBay Inc. is working with a Texas television-technology specialist to handle anticipated growing …

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A Pair of Mobile Merchant Apps Debut with Tech Twists

Two new payment applications debuted this week to allow plumbers, pizza-delivery services, and other mobile merchants to accept card transactions on mobile phones. The new apps, from Charge Anywhere LLC and TSYS Acquiring Solutions, follow in line behind a steady flow of such products that have launched this year. But …

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