Boku

A mobile payments provider BOKU has partnered with AT&T to launch a direct mobile payment connection trial. The new program is aimed to offer customers a direct carrier-billing solution for online goods and services using their existing wireless service account.

Now AT&T customers can pay for virtual purchases and online content from participating merchants using the BOKU mobile payments service. Just using their mobile phone customers may make online purchases by entering their mobile number and charging directly to their existing AT&T wireless service account.

Boku is entering a new direct partnership with Vodafone UK to use its API. Under the new deal Boku users will be able to charge their online purchases (this applies beyond just virtual goods) directly to their Vodafone pre and post paid accounts by connecting with Vodafone’s MPAY payments API.

Vodafone customers can make either single or subscription purchases of any amount between 5p and £30 GBP. The connection also enables two-step authorization and capture, transaction processing and the ability pass refunds back to the customer’s account.

A provider of mobile payment solutions mopay is expanding its presence into the US market to provide North American gaming and social networking businesses with a new revenue channel and allow US consumers to purchase virtual goods and other digital content through their mobile phone accounts.

A Filipino mobile operator Globe Telecom is partnering with BOKU via its wholly owned mobile commerce subsidiary G-Xchange (GXI) in a move to expand acceptance of the Globe GCASH service on an international level. Under the partnership BOKU platform becomes accessible to a large base of Globe’s GCASH subscribers.

Boku, online mobile payments start-up based in San Francisco, has raised $13 million in venture funding and acquired micropayments outfit Paymo and m-payments firm Mobillcash. The Boku payments service enables global consumers to make online purchases of digital and virtual goods with their mobile phones. The company has been operating in stealth mode for about a year, but has now launched with $13