| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.12.2018 | Meet 42 Mobile Payment Players Active in Singapore Right Now | As one of the most highly banked populations in Southeast Asia (Standing at 96.4% of banked adults at 2014), Singapore presents a unique ecosystem in the same region.
This is part of why Singapore is popularly deemed as one of the fintech h... |
| 15.01.2017 | Innovation under the hood will rev the engines of a fintech revolution | Matt Heiman Contributor
Matt Heiman is a partner at CRV.
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Consumer internet companies are easy to understand, but hard to create
Predicting success in startup consumer brands
When the internet was first created... |
| 21.10.2014 | On The Heels Of Apple Pay, Jumio Launches A Card-Scanning Mobile Checkout Product For Retailers’ iOS And Android Apps | Computer vision startup Jumio, best known for its payment card and ID-scanning technologies which allow end users to hold up their cards to a mobile device’s camera to simplify the process of entering in that data on small screens, is rolli... |
| 27.09.2014 | Don’t Dismiss Developers | Ethan Kurzweil Contributor
Ethan Kurzweil is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
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An inside look at Bessemer Venture Partners’ investment process for Twilio
Don’t Dismiss Developers
Editor’s note: Ethan Kur... |
| 04.03.2014 | How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity | Anand Iyer Contributor
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Editor’s note: Anand Iyer is the Head of Product at Threadflip. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Hitpost, acquired by Yahoo, and managed product at IGN ... |
| 19.12.2013 | Why mobile retailers should ditch credit cards | Ayo Omojola is CEO and cofounder of Hipmob.
At Hipmob we help companies talk to mobile app users. Many companies use Hipmob around their checkout, answering questions about your product or policy helps close sales and increase revenue.
Some... |
| 19.12.2013 | Why mobile retailers should ditch credit cards | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ayo Omojola is CEO and cofounder of Hipmob.
At Hipmob we help companies talk to mobile app users. Many companies use Hipmob around thei... |
| 22.06.2013 | Today’s Acqui-Hires Will Become Tomorrow’s Innovators | Editor’s note: Peter Relan is a former programmer and Internet executive, as well as a successful serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley executive, angel investor, and technology veteran for over 25 years. He founded YouWeb Incubator in 2007, ... |
| 27.11.2012 | Cisimple Launches A Hosted Continuous Delivery Platform For Mobile: Makes Building, Testing And Deployment Easier On Developers | Cisimple is a new development platform, launching today, which automates the build, testing and deployment process for mobile applications. The company is offering hosted Continuous Integration for both the iOS and Android platforms to star... |
| 22.07.2012 | PayPal Acquires card.io | Digital wallet company PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Acc... |
| 19.07.2012 | Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund | I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P. – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund.
K9 Ventures started investing in 2009 with our first fund, K9 Ventures, L.P., which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-... |
| 17.07.2012 | PayPal acquires Card.io, which captures credit card info with phone cameras | Making sure to keep its fingers in all of the mobile payment pies, PayPal announced today that it has snapped up Card.io, a startup that has developed technology to capture credit card information with your smartphone camera.
Card.io, which... |
| 17.07.2012 | PayPal acquires Card.io, which captures credit card info with phone cameras | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Making sure to keep its fingers in all of the mobile payment pies, PayPal announced today that it has snapped up Card.io, a startup tha... |
| 17.07.2012 | PayPal Acquires Mobile Payments Startup Card.io | PayPal just announced that it has acquired card.io, a company that allows developers to capture credit card information by using a smartphone’s built-in camera. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. As we reported ear... |
| 12.07.2012 | RWW Recommends: The Best Mobile Payments App | Mobile payments. The phrase has hit the popular conscious over the past several years as smartphones have permeated the lives of people around the world. Pay for anything you want without a plastic card, without cash, without your checkbook... |
| 16.05.2012 | Mobile Payments Startup Jumio Takes On Card.io With Credit Card Scanning Toolkit For App Developers | Mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio is introducing its Netswipe Mobile SDK today, which allows developers to add credit card scanning functionality to their mobile applications. The SDK (software development kit), is ava... |
| 03.05.2012 | NetPlenish Raises $1.9M For Mobile Shopping Service That Finds Lowest Prices On Household Goods | A new mobile shopping service called NetPlenish is announcing today that it has closed a round of $1.9 million in seed funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, Gold Hill Capital, BHV Capital, TEEC Angel Fund, Ludlow Ventures and several an... |
| 04.04.2012 | Uber Simplifies Sign Up Process: Just Hold Up Your Credit Card & You’re In! | On-demand black car service Uber is making it easier for new users to sign up for rides, thanks to its newly-announced Card.io integration. For those unfamiliar with the mobile payments startup Card.io (a competitor with Jumio), it’s a mobi... |
| 22.03.2012 | Taking On Rival Jumio, Payments Startup Card.io Adds Web Support | Card.io, the mobile payments startup which recently partnered with PayPal on the company’s new Square rival PayPal Here, has some big news: it’s no longer a “mobile” payments startup. That’s right – Card.io is now available for the web, too... |
| 15.03.2012 | No Swipe Needed: PayPal Here Is Powered By Mobile Payment Startup Card.io | PayPal today unveiled its new global payment platform for small and medium-sized businesses, PayPal Here. It brings the veteran payments solution into local stores with a new mobile app-card reader solution to rival Square. Rolling out to m... |
| 15.03.2012 | PayPal Goes In-Store, Launches Global Platform For Smaller Businesses | We’re at the PayPal event in San Francisco today where the ePayments giant has officially pulled back the curtain on its payment solution for small businesses. The news has been trickling out over the last few weeks now, as Leena reported l... |
| 15.03.2012 | InvoiceASAP Rolls Out Mobile Invoicing With Support For QuickBooks Sync, Card.io | Cloud-based invoicing platform (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) InvoiceASAP is out with some very welcome news for business owners and their accountants today: integration with QuickBooks. The new functionality works with both QuickBooks D... |
| 05.03.2012 | Payments Company Jumio Raises $25.5M From Andreessen Horowitz; Will Hit $100M In 2012 Revenue | Disruptive mobile and online payments startup Jumio has raised $25.5 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The firm’s General Partner Scott Weiss has joined Jumio’s board of directors. Jumio’s earlier investors include Fac... |
| 19.01.2012 | Ditch the Dongle: Make Payments With Your Smartphone’s Camera With Card.io | Imagine making credit card-based payment with your smartphone. Visions of dongles are go dancing through your head. This is a function of conditioning that companies like Square and Intuit have taught users to expect. But, what if you could... |
| 19.01.2012 | No More Swiping: Card.io Launches New Consumer App, Developer Tools Which “See” Your Credit Card | Card.io, the toolkit for mobile app developers which lets users pay for items by holding their credit card up to the phone’s camera, is today launching a consumer-facing app. It’s something like Square, but without the dongle. It’s also not... |
| 19.01.2012 | Ditch the Dongle: Make Payments With Your Smartphone’s Camera With Card.io
Ditch the Dongle: Make Payments With Your Smartphone’s Camera With Card.io | Imagine making credit card-based payment with your smartphone. Visions of dongles are go dancing through your head. This is a function of conditioning that companies like Square and Intuit have taught users to expect. But, what if you could... |
| 07.10.2011 | ZipPay To Launch New Mobile Payments Service Cheaper Than Square | The easiest way to describe stealthy mobile payments startup ZipPay is to say it’s like Square and Venmo had a baby, and this was the result. Like Square, the startup aims to address the needs of individuals and small business owners who ca... |
| 20.09.2011 | Card.io’s SDK Comes To Android | Card.io, the mobile commerce company started by two former AdMob employees, Mike Mettler and Josh Bleecher Snyder, is launching a software development kit (SDK) for Android today.
The SDK for iOS launched in June, allowing mobile app develo... |
| 20.09.2011 | Android developers can finally use Card.io’s optical credit card reader | The last time we checked in with Card.io there was a major hole in the company’s software-based credit card payment solution for smartphones: There wasn’t an SDK for Android.
Today Card.io is changing that by making its optical character re... |
| 26.07.2011 | Jumio Turns Webcams into Credit Card Readers, on Desktop and Mobile | Payments company Jumio is today launching a new technology called Netswipe that turns any webcam into a credit card reader, both on the desktop and on mobile. The service aims to bridge the convenience of online and mobile shopping with the... |
| 26.07.2011 | Jumio Turns Webcams Into Credit Card Readers – And Why Merchants Will Welcome ‘Netswipers’ | If it were up to Jumio, we’re all going to be ‘netswiping’ to purchase books, clothes, travel, FarmVille crops and whatnot online in a couple of years. The startup has been extensively testing its digital payments service in private beta mo... |
| 13.07.2011 | Mobile, mobile, mobile: 16 startups worth following | Eight consumer-facing companies and eight infrastructure services, all mobile goodness
As much as (if not more than) the social space, mobile is one of the most rapidly exploding markets in the technology industry right now. Whether it's ga... |
| 13.07.2011 | Pay on the go with a picture of your credit card | Anyone who has ever typed their credit card information on a mobile keypad will appreciate Card.io. The company offers a software-based credit card payment solution for smartphone developers, and they are competing today in MobileBeat’s 201... |
| 13.07.2011 | Pay on the go with a picture of your credit card | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Anyone who has ever typed their credit card information on a mobile keypad will appreciate Card.io. The company offers a software-based... |
| 06.07.2011 | Meet the 8 infrastructure startups for the MobileBeat 2011 competition | It’s that time of the year again: VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference is coming up on July 12 – 13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This year our theme is “Who wins in the 4G nirvana?” We’ll be focusing on the rise of 4G and what ... |
| 23.06.2011 | card.io Closes $1M Seed Funding Round | card.io, a San Francisco, CA-based start-up that develops a software that allows consumers to use their smartphone camera to pay with a credit card, closed a $1m seed round of funding.
Investor include Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal, Jef... |
| 23.06.2011 | Card.io's SDK Makes Entering Credit Card Information As Easy As Taking A Snapshot | When it comes to mobile applications that involve commerce, one of the biggest obstacles is getting users to actually pay for an item. Indeed, the user might be perfectly willing to hand over some money, but the process of actually entering... |
| 23.06.2011 | card.io: Like Square, but without the square | It’s been a busy week folks! I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). As the name suggests, card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in mobile applicat... |
| - | NetPlenish, сервис для поиска лучших цен на домашние товары, выпустил мобильные приложения | Новый сервис для мобильного шопинга NetPlenish сегодня сообщил о получении финансирования в размере $1.9 миллиона от 500 Startups, Gold Hill Capital, BHV Capital, TEEC Angel Fund, Ludlow Ventures и нескольких других инвесторов. Новость совп... |
