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    1. 70% of Telcos, Financial Services Already Have a Mobile Strategy in Place

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Apr 1 2012) Marketing , Mobility

      70% of Telcos, Financial Services Already Have a Mobile Strategy in Place A KPMG survey of 970 companies across the globe, from the telecom, financial services, technology, and retail industries shows broad belief that mobile commerce will have an important impact on their businesses. Some 58 percent of respondents said that their … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Kpmg

    2. Mobile Commerce is Something Few Americans Have Done, So Far

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Mar 17 2012) Mobility

      Only five percent of Americans say that they have scanned their phone for admission to a movie or as an airline ticket, and fewer say they have done so to pay for clothing or electronics (three percent), admission to a … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Harris Interactive   Mobile Commerce

    3. Telefonica Invests in Carrier Billing Provider Boku

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Mar 15 2012) Mobility

      Boku has gotten a $5 million investment from Telefonica, and also has signed a deal to provide backend mobile payments services for Telefonica’s in-house API program, BlueVia, which will be used to support apps for Telefonica’s 231-million subscriber base across … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telefonica   Gary Kim   Boku

    4. Will Banks Chase Advertising Business?

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Mar 14 2012) Business Models , Marketing , Mobility

      Much seems to have changed over the last 12 months in the mobile payments business, one of the trends being the thinking about where the big revenue streams exist. For most in the mobile payments or mobile wallet spaces, the … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Bank of America

    5. Retailers Want Own Mobile Payments System

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Mar 2 2012) Mobility

      As if the mobile payments business were not complicated enough, a consortium of about 24 major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores and Target, are developing their own mobile payments system. That move illustrates the complex nature of the mobile payments business, … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim

    6. PayPal Launches Carrier Payment Network

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 28 2012) Mobility

      PayPal launched the “PayPal Carrier Payment Network,” to make mobile carrier payments more viable for a wider number of online merchants. PayPal says it already can build on relationships with 250 communications carriers and 1,500 digital goods merchants. The initiative … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim

    7. What Problem is GoPago Trying to Solve?

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 28 2012) Mobility

      “Consumers don’t really have a mobile payment problem,” says Jack Stephenson, director of mobile, e-commerce and payments at JP Morgan Chase. “Ninety-five percent of the time, paying with cash and credit cards actually works pretty well. Consumers have a mobile … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   JP Morgan Chase   JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    8. Boku to Get Telefonica Investment?

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 27 2012) Mobility

      Boku, according to one source, will be getting an investment from Telefonica. Boku recently announced new support for near field communications and retail payments. http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/27/bokus-secret-new-carrier-investor-telefonica/ Share this: (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telefonica   Gary Kim   Opera Software

    9. Vodafone, Visa Launch Mobile Payments Venture

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 27 2012) Mobility

      Vodafone Group is launching a mobile payments venture with Visa, using near field communications and Visa prepaid accounts to let customers pay for goods and services with their mobile phones. Vodafone, the world’s largest telecom company by revenue, said the … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vodafone   Gary Kim   Nokia Corp.

    10. Consumer Use of Mobile Banking Grows, Says Fiserv

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 27 2012) Mobility

      As other studies also have shown, consumer use of mobile banking, and willingness to use mobile banking services, continue to grow, a new study sponsored by Fiserv has found. When asked if they had used a mobile banking service in … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim

    11. PayPal Appears Ready to Attack Carrier Billing Transaction Costs

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 27 2012)

      eBay Inc CEO John Donahoe announced that PayPal is launching the “PayPal Carrier Payment Network,” a strategic initiative to make mobile carrier payments more viable for a wider number of online merchants. PayPal’s Zong acquisition likely will play a part … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   John Donahoe

    12. Telefonica, MasterCard Mobile Payments Business in Latin America Named “Wanda”

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 26 2012) Mobility

      Telefónica and MasterCard’s mobile payments joint venture, created to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in Latin America, unveiled today its new corporate and consumer brand, Wanda. Wanda will provide mobile payment solutions to over 87 million Movistar customers … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telefonica   Gary Kim   MasterCard

    13. Belgian Mobile Payment Initiative Falls Apart

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 26 2012) Mobility

      A consortium of Belgian mobile service providers creating a mobile payments system apparently cannot agree on how to move forward, and that effort now is stalled. British mobile service providers have found the effort more difficult than they possibly anticipated … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Belgacom

    14. Mobile Commerce Ecosystem Gets More Complicated: What is Revenue Consequence?

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 25 2012) Business Models , Marketing , Mobility

      It never has been terribly easy to describe the mobile payment ecosystem and it arguably has gotten more complicated now that so much focus is going to mobile wallet and mobile commerce functions. Mobile payments originally might have been more … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim

    15. Tablet Explosion has Mobile Marketing Implications

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 17 2012) Marketing , Mobility

      No product in Apple’s history has sold faster than the Apple iPad, about 55 million units so far. “It took us years to sell iPhones, Macs and iPods,” says Apple CEO Tim Cook. “This thing is on a trajectory that’s … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Gary Kim   Tim Cook

    16. Telefonica to Launch Mobile Wallet Service

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 14 2012) Mobility

      Telefónica Digital says Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, will be provide mobile wallet services for Telefónica’s m-wallet service. The service will feature a stored value account, payments and peer-to-peer transfers. The m-wallet will be capable of storing prepaid, debit, … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telefonica   Cisco   Sybase

    17. 18X Mobile Data Consumption Next 5 Years

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 14 2012) Mobility

      According to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month, an annual run rate of 130 exabytes, by 2016. The monthly 130 exabytes is equivalent … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Gary Kim   United Nations

    18. Qthru Video

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 7 2012) Marketing , Mobility

      Posted on February 7, 2012 by Gary Kim Share This entry was posted in Top Post by Gary Kim. Bookmark the permalink. About Gary Kim Gary Kim write for a number of marketing, communications and mobile content sites. He recently was cited by Forbes as a "power mobile influencer" globally (second, overall, for strategic insight). He is a member of Mensa, the international organization for people with IQs in the top two percent. Among the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Facebook   Mensa

    19. What Will “Display Advertising” Look Like on Facebook?

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 7 2012) Marketing , Mobility

      What does “display advertising” look like on a smart phone? For Facebook that might mean “featured stories,” inserted into end user news feeds.  Facebook to tap mobile ads Mobile advertising is complicated for a number of reasons, not the least of … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Facebook

    20. Global Internet Access From Mobiles Doubles in 2011

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 6 2012) Applications , Mobility

      Global Internet usage on mobile devices, exclusive of tablets,  has almost doubled to 8.5 percent in January 2012, up  from 4.3 percent in 2010,  according to StatCounter.StatCounter Global Stats data also suggest mobile access to the Internet has been doubling … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nokia   Apple   Gary Kim

    21. On Facebook, as on all Social Networks, Power Users Dominate

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 6 2012) Marketing

      There’s a reason marketers are spending more time thinking about how to reach and interact with “power users” on virtually all social media and networks.  So far, virtually every study shows that participation on all social media is unequally distributed. … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim

    22. 16% of U.S. Mobile Users Engage in Mobile Banking

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 3 2012) Mobility

      In the second quarter of 2011, about 16 percent of U.S. mobile users surveyed by comScore indicated that they conducted some type of financial-related activity from their mobile device  in the past month. This population of mobile bankers grew 30 … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim

    23. Mobile Advertising Grows 760% to 1000% Over Last Year

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Feb 2 2012) Marketing , Mobility

      Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, which both saw enormous increases of 981% and 759% respectively across inneractive’s network. North America saw the biggest boost in mobile ad serves and Europe came in second, but the surprise was Africa with a 4th place … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Gary Kim   Facebook

    24. T-Mobile USA Adds Square

      Explore mobilemarketingandtechnology.com (Jan 31 2012) Marketing , Mobility

      T-Mobile USA will sell Square credit card readers in some of its retail stores. Barclays Capital estimates that U.S. mobile commerce sales hit $5.3 billion in 2011, up 83 percent from 2010. However, more than 26 million small businesses still … Continue reading → (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   NPD   Barclays Capital