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Youth: Mobile Marketing, will it work?

No, this isnâ€™t a rant about Blyk. So donâ€™t worry. This is a look at how I think mobile marketing is being put to...

‘Unbanked’, kids pushing for mobile banking

Bank of America might be celebrating reaching one million mobile banking customers, but there are millions more set to do their financing over their...

Obopay lands $20m for mobile payments

Mobile payments company Obopay has nabbed a four round of funding worth $20 million from the likes of Essar Communications Holdings Limited, leading the...

816 million mobile bankers by 2010

Mobile banking is set to skyrocket, according to mobile analysts Juniper Research, with 816 million of us using mobile banking services by 2011, a...

Obopay’s next mobile payments frontier: India

India is, according to Obopay, adding 8 million mobile customers a month -- to a market that's already got around 250 million mobile users...

SK Telecom, Citi bank on mobile money venture

SK Telecom is teaming up with financial services giant Citi to create a so-called "next generation' mobile banking joint venture. The joint venture will...

Flirtomatic sells 14,000 engagement rings for leap year

Scottish tradition has it that on February 29 a woman has the right to propose marriage to any man she likes - and if...

Excellent delivery notification / re-scheduling by SMS

As a postscript to yesterday's post bemoaning the state of Westminster Council's 'pay by mobile' parking system, I got a surprising text from Virgin...

How not to do pay-by-mobile: a rant

With apologies to those seeking analysis or a product review (what are you reading my rubbish for anyway?), this week's piece is a...

Shoppers still shy of mobile buying

Research outfit Gartner has found that while consumers are still more likely to browse than to buy using their mobile phones (no surprise there),...

100,000 Virgin Mobile USA customers using Ringbacks

Ringbacks haven't ever had caught the imagination of the public like Ringtones did all those years ago. However they're still popular --...

Remote-managed NFC kicks off with Taiwan Mobile

Taiwan Mobile has decided to get into NFC payments with new partner Gemalto. The operator has said it's going to rollout the NFC...

Mobile banker Tyfone gets funding millions

Tyfone, which develops hardware and software for white label mobile banking and mobile contactless payments, has got a funding injection from Indian-tech-focused VC...

Mastercard, U.S. Bank, and Nokia Testing Out NFC

NFC trials are nothing new, both in the United States and abroad, but it's interesting to know that the testing is getting more and...

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