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| Oct 31, 2014 | What New FinCEN Guidance Means for US Bitcoin Companies | Faisal Khan is a payments consultant and digital money evangelist. He is the co-host of Around the Coin, a weekly podcast on banking, money and payments. He is also a frequent contributor to popular Q&A site Quora.
On October 27, 2014, ... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Nokia Exits Mobile Payments Business With Shuttering Of Nokia Money | Nokia is announcing today it plans to shut down its mobile payments service known as Nokia Money in India, as a part of a shift in strategy that will allow the company to more narrowly focus on its handset business and related location-base... |
| Mar 4, 2012 | Movilway Expands Mobile Payment Services To The Underbanked In Latin America [Video] | Movilway, the company pioneering prepaid mobile payments in Central and South America, recently updated their arsenal of tools to include a new custom Android tablet Point Of Sale (POS) terminal as well as a new MoviPIN system for online pu... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Elephant Capital Selling Public-listed India Portfolio | AIM-listed and India-focused private equity firm Elephant Capital is exiting its minority investments in public-listed Indian firms – building materials company Nitco Tiles, Oberoi Hotels owner EIH Ltd and auto component firm Mahindra Forgi... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | How to build meaningful financial services companies | Rod Ebrahimi is co-founder at ReadyForZero.com, an online financial program that helps Americans tackle debt. You can follow him at @innovatebig.
Even though financial services is among the most profitable industries in the world, the exist... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Obopay and Benevity leverage mobile payments to speed donations to Japan | UPDATED: Mobile payment provider Obopay Inc. and Benevity Social Ventures Inc., a software provider specializing in mobile and online donation software, announced a text-to-donate effort supporting areas in northern Japan affected by last w... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Mobile banking firm Obopay promotes its president to CEO | Mobile banking company Obopay is announcing today it has promoted Deepak Chandnani from president to chief executive. He replaces Carol Realini, who will become executive chairman.
The move reflects the growing importance of international m... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Mobile banking firm Obopay promotes its president to CEO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile banking company Obopay is announcing today it has promoted Deepak Chandnani from president to chief executive. He replaces Carol... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | With STAR Network deal, Obopay lets you transfer money instantly by mobile | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Payment services firm Obopay is announcing today that it will enable real-time transfer of money via mobile phones as a result of an ag... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | With STAR Network deal, Obopay lets you transfer money instantly by mobile | Payment services firm Obopay is announcing today that it will enable real-time transfer of money via mobile phones as a result of an agreement with the STAR Network money transfer service. That means mobile users can transfer money instanta... |
| Aug 26, 2010 | Who Will Win the Mobile Payments Battle: Gadgets, NFC or Apps? | As news breaks this morning about the Intuit/Mophie partnership that aims to bring a complete credit card solution to the iPhone, the focus has been how this new product – an attachment that snaps onto the bottom of the phone – competes dir... |
| Aug 6, 2010 | PayPal on Android Lets You Bump Phones to Send Money | PayPal’s mobile application for Android was updated this week with support for a new feature: bump technology. Actually, Bump Technologies. Bump is a startup that lets you share information between two smartphones by tapping the phones toge... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | Obopay teams with Societe Generale to provide mobile money in Africa | Obopay has teamed up with French bank Societe Generale to bring its mobile payment services to customers in Africa starting with a new service launching today in Senegal.
The service offered through Societe Generale de Banques au Senegal is... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | Obopay teams with Societe Generale to provide mobile money in Africa | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Obopay has teamed up with French bank Societe Generale to bring its mobile payment services to customers in Africa starting with a new ... |
| May 24, 2010 | Mobile payments firm Obopay promotes president as it prepares for worldwide growth | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Obopay has named its Mumbai, India-based sales chief Deepak Chandnani as president as the company expands its mobile payments business ... |
| May 24, 2010 | Mobile payments firm Obopay promotes president as it prepares for worldwide growth | Obopay has named its Mumbai, India-based sales chief Deepak Chandnani as president as the company expands its mobile payments business worldwide.
Chandnani was formerly head of sales and marketing of the Redwood City, Calif.-based company. ... |
| May 11, 2010 | Obopay’s new service will put banks in the mobile payments business | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Banks have been slow to move into the emerging mobile payments business. That’s why Obopay is launching its Mobile Money for Banks plat... |
| May 11, 2010 | Obopay’s new service will put banks in the mobile payments business | Banks have been slow to move into the emerging mobile payments business. That’s why Obopay is launching its Mobile Money for Banks platform today.
It will allow a bank to deploy its own, branded mobile service in less than 30 days. With it,... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | How to give money away with your iPhone | Apparently there weren’t enough ways to give away money, so now you can do it with your iPhone.
Mobile payments firm Obopay is announcing today that you can use its iPhone app to give away money to your friends and family. It’s part of the ... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | How to give money away with your iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apparently there weren’t enough ways to give away money, so now you can do it with your iPhone.
Mobile payments firm Obopay is announci... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Twitter, Amiando, Obopay, And Playfish Are Named Technology Pioneers By The World Economic Forum | Every year the World Economic Forum picks a couple dozen or so up-and-coming technology startups from around the world and dubs them Technology Pioneers. In the past, Technology Pioneers have included Google and Mozilla. Last year, Mint, Et... |
| Dec 1, 2009 | Square: Twitter Co-Founder Launches New Mobile Payment System | Square, a new mobile phone payment system founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, just launched its private beta today. Square will give anybody the ability to accept payment cards without having to go through a costly credit card proces... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Obopay moves into mobile payments for online games | Obopay, a mobile payment company funded by Nokia, is announcing today that it is moving into online games so that you can buy items in social network games using your mobile phone.
Obopay is one of a number of startups that make it easy to ... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Obopay moves into mobile payments for online games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Obopay, a mobile payment company funded by Nokia, is announcing today that it is moving into online games so that you can buy items in ... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | For m-Commerce to Work, We Need to Embrace Mobile Payments (Part 2) | This is part 2 of a two-part article on the mobile e-commerce market in relation to other mobile trends.
In part 1 of this article, we looked at m-commerce’s struggles in relation to other mobile markets like mobile ads and video while also... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Roundup: Nokia Money, iPhones coming to China | Nokia announces Nokia Money, a payment-by-phone service that will launch next year — The service will let anyone send and receive money with a text message or a voice call. All you need to know to send someone money is their phone number. N... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Nokia Eyes Emerging Markets With Obopay-Powered Payment Platform | Earlier today, Nokia announced that it was launching Nokia Money, a new payment service powered by Obopay that allows users to send money to friends, merchants, and service companies simply by using their phone numbers. The service will be ... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Nokia readies mobile payment service Nokia Money | Nokia said today that it’s going to be entering the mobile payments market next year with a product called Nokia Money, powered by mobile payments startup Obopay. With it, users will be able to send money to other people using their mobile ... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Nokia readies mobile payment service Nokia Money | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nokia said today that it’s going to be entering the mobile payments market next year with a product called Nokia Money, powered by mobi... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Roundup: Nokia Money, iPhones coming to China | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nokia announces Nokia Money, a payment-by-phone service that will launch next year — The service will let anyone send and receive money... |
| Mar 27, 2009 | The $70 Million Obopay Deal Is More About The UnBanked Than The Banked | When news came out earlier this week that mobile payments company Obopay raised another $70 million, effectively doubling its total funding raised to date, some observers were surprised at the sheer size of the round. While others expressed... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Obopay scores $70M from Nokia for mobile payments | Obopay, provider of a mobile service that lets people transfer money to one another through text messages, just received an investment from Nokia, estimated at $70 million. [Update: It turns out that not all of this money came from Nokia, a... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Track Money For Groups with Scred's MiniCorps – Invite codes | Scred, a Finnish startup that lets friends track and manage their shared expenses and debts, has come up with a new twist to its app which may also help out young startups. With its MiniCorps app (as in ‘mini-corporation’) you can track the... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | Cell phone money transfers going international | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Aug 11, 2008 | Open Salon: If You Tippem, Will They Come? | Online magazine Salon.com today opened up its new hosted blog network, Open Salon, which not only allows its readers (or anybody else for that matter) to create their own blogs, but also has a built-in tipping mechanism to reward writers fo... |
| Jul 13, 2007 | Obopay adds $29M to warchest, amid competition in mobile payments | Obopay, the Redwood City, Calif. company that lets you send payments to people from a mobile phone, has raised $29 million more in a third round of funding.
The service launched last year, and it’s not clear how much traction it has. The fu... |
| Jun 21, 2007 | Danal, another mobile payments company, launches | Danal, a company that wants to let young people use cellphones to make payments without owning a credit card, is about to launch in the U.S. with a separate subsidiary, according to the WSJ.
It lets you buy downloadable music or other digit... |
| Apr 5, 2007 | The Web 2.0 pyramids: Agloco, eMax and KushCash | Each Internet boom creates its batch of pyramid-like schemes. They cater to the lust for easy returns dominant in euphoric times.
That’s not to say they’re fraudulent. Most of these schemes are plausible on their face, and that’s their allu... |
| Jan 30, 2007 | MiniMerger: Obopay Aquires Billmonk | In a battle for relevance in the mobile payments space, mobile to mobile payment service Obopay has acquired social payment service Billmonk. Neither are disclosing the size of the acquisition, which is undoubtedly a tiny and probably stock... |
| Jan 30, 2007 | Roundup: Bombs, don’t do Delaware, MySQL IPO & more | Correlation between bomb building and entrepreneurship? — Former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel reportedly says four of six founders of the online payment service built bombs while in high school. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley venture capit... |
| Dec 20, 2006 | Helio Allows Customers To Use Obopay | Today Helio announced that its subscribers will be able to pay their bills via Obopay. Targeted mostly for pay-as-you-go users, Obopay is the latest in MasterCard’s way of having you spend money on their terms. It works sort-of like a prepa... |
| Sep 6, 2006 | Mobile payment Co. Obopay raises $7 million from Qualcomm | Obopay, of Redwood City, has pulled in $7 million in strategic Series B funding from wireless industry heavyweight Qualcomm Inc. to help it expand the potential market for its mobile payment technology.
Realini said that by receiving invest... |
| Jul 10, 2006 | Mobile payment service, Paymate, raises millions | Silicon Valley’s eagerness to invest in India is intensifying.
In the latest move, Silicon Valley-based investors have pumped several million dollars into Paymate, a service that wants to let you make payments by mobile phone. Its service h... |
| Apr 27, 2006 | Начало эры мобильных платежей | Производители сотовых телефонов, операторы сотовой связи, финансовые учреждения и многие другие игроки на рынке работают над тем, чтобы сделать из вашего телефона устройство для проведения платежей.
Поскольку мобильники давно уже вошли в ко... |
| Apr 11, 2006 | Catchup: Google’s Orion, bubbling Internet IPOs, Web 2.0 ad nauseum | Here’s the latest, as of Tuesday afternoon:
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Google to let you avoid clicking through to pages? — Google has bought software developed by a graduate student in Australia, Ori Allon, that displays information from Web sites directly... |
| Mar 29, 2006 | Obopay set to Launch: More Mobile Payments | Update: The Obopay website is now live, although you cannot register and use the service until April.
Palo Alto based Obopay is set to launch sometime Thursday (the site is currently password protected). This is the newest product in the ve... |
| Mar 8, 2006 | Obopay: Will let you pay for almost anything with your cell phone. Really. | Obopay is a Palo Alto start-up that boasts it will be the first service to allow customers to pay for just about anything with their mobile phones.
The company is being coy with the details. We talked with Peter Kellner, a partner at Richmo... |
