mesheconomy.com- Retail & Online Commerce > Emerging Payments

Monitise

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:32:08 GMT

Extensive mobile banking and payment software and services.

Agreement with Visa to deploy payment mobile payment services in Europe, to be followed with US prepaid & debit-card services - see article
Agreement with Standard Chartered to deploy mobile payment apps in India - see article

ZooZ

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:14:12 GMT

Secure in-app payments with payouts in over 150 countries.

[May 30] VentureBeat article

tappmo

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:38:33 GMT

Mobile eCommerce started by Google Wallet founding members.

[March 2012] Techcrunch article

Bitcoin

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:27:44 GMT

Anonymous, P2P virtual currency

Currency Exchange at: https://mtgox.com/

May 21 article: Techcrunch

June 10 article: Daily Tech

June 10 article: PC World

June 15 article: Gigaom

VMware is a cloud computing and virtualization leader.

VMware is actively acquiring a suite of cloud-based enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities.

Recently Launched:

- Cloud Foundry is VMWare's strategic PaaS (Platform as a Service). It is open and supports multiple frameworks.

- Horizon App Manager allows companies to manage security and access entitlements for employees to access cloud services, while keeping their passwords and entitlement directories behind the firewall.

IT Management Acquisitions

- Wavemaker : Based on the Spring framework, allows non-expert developers to build web apps quickly and deploy them to the cloud

- Digital Fuel : Financial Management for companies to measure ROI from their Cloud investments. Paid 85MM according to this article

- Shavlik : cloud-based IT Managment for small end medium companies.

Collaboration and Productivity Acquisitions

- Socialcast : Enterprise microblogging. Enables rapid discussions, town halls, questions.

- Slide Rocket : Collaborative presentations. Powerpoint rebuilt for the web, with a shared slide library, live data from Google spreadsheets, Twitter feeds, and ether embedded widgets.

- Mozy : Backup and storage in the cloud

- Zimbra : Email server (like Microsoft Exchange) delivered as a cloud appliance

wiWAllet

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:54:15 GMT

Mobile Payment technology provider in South Africa - selected by MXit (Leading South African social network) to deploy a mobile wallet.

M-Pesa

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:07:22 GMT

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.

clearXchange

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:03:59 GMT

BofA, Chase and Wells Fargo team up for P2P payments.

NY times blog article

Square

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:06:32 GMT

Squares enables everyone to accept payments using an iPhone and no merchant account

Fast Company article

Fig Card (Acquired by PayPal)

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:10:51 GMT

Mobile payments, acquired by PayPal. Kudos for keeping a link to Square on their landing page!

allthingsD article

Google Wallet

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:13:26 GMT

Mobile payments using NFC. In partnership with Citi, Sprint, First Data, and Mastercard

Alipay (owned by Alibaba)

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:18:44 GMT

Alipay has introduced a barcode-based mobile payment system in China

Penn Olson article

The Next Web article

Fundamo (Acquired by Visa)

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:25:10 GMT

Fundamo is a leading mobile financial services provider, focused primarily on developing countries.

Acquired by Visa.

Dwolla

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:15:19 GMT

Making cash an option for mobile payments

ReadWriteWeb article

Techcrunch article about GPS-based proximity payments

iZettle

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:31:47 GMT

Sweden-based credit card processing on the iPhone.

Similar to Square, but plugs into the dock instead of the headphone jack.

Overview article.

Boku mobile billing

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:38:11 GMT

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

Clover

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:44:36 GMT

1-click mobile payment platform.

[March 2012] GigaOm article

OpenCuro

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:14:53 GMT

Private payments using randomly generated, one-time use "Curo" code. Email, phone, text. No personal information needs to be shared with the payee.

Chirpify

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:26:22 GMT

Apr 2012 GigaOm article

card.io

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:35:31 GMT

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

- Forbes blog

- All Things D article

Popmoney

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:53:09 GMT

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.

Gcash

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:05:00 GMT

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.

Intuit GoPayment

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:01:46 GMT

Intuit GoPayments enables merchants to accept payments on the go.

Zong (acquired by Paypal)

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:35:34 GMT

Enables payment through utilities/carriers. Over 40 countries covered.

Partership with Verizon

Acquired by Paypal.

Sina Weibo currency

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:00:50 GMT

Forbes blog

Penn Olson article

Reuters article

Fortumo

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:21:44 GMT

Focused on app and game developers to bill through carriers in over 50 countries.

BilltoMobile

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:22:59 GMT

Enables carrier billing through Sprint, AT&T and Verizon

Payfone

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:29:11 GMT

Leading mobile payment provider, enabling carrier billing.

American Express as a backer and strategic partner: Partnership press release

Kuapay

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:14:56 GMT

Kuapay's consumer applications generate a QR code on mobile devices which get scanned by merchants to execute a payment.

Mashable article

Venmo

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:53:52 GMT

Making payments into a social experience.

[April 2012] Betabeat article

Flattr

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:04:56 GMT

Well, not strictly mobile payments, but....

[July 2010] Techcrunch article

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"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."

Stripe

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:31:00 GMT

Payments for developers - Stripe makes it easy to accept payments on the web today.