mobile commerce

A provider of mobile commerce solutions CorFire announced the launch of branded suite of technology products including CorTrust™, its Trusted Service Manager (TSM); CorPay™, a mobile wallet platform; and Cor360™, a set of mobile marketing services that includes location-enabled offers, gifting, and loyalty services.

LSN Mobile has partnered with First Data to offer program that gives both advertisers and retailers an efficient, cost-effective and trackable mobile marketing solution to boost store traffic.

My Mobile Offer features Short Message Service (SMS), mobile advertising and traditional marketing and capitalizes on the popularity and increasing usage of personalized offers and discounts. The program allows brands to take full advantage of the power of mobile marketing.

A mobile commerce provider ROAM Data announced the launch of ROAMwallet API, a mobile checkout solution to turn the mobile marketing channel into a mobile sales channel.

MoreMagic Solutions, a provider of mobile commerce and financial services, launched a new application for smartphones eTopUpOnline. The software is available for all mobile platforms including Blackberry, Android, iPhone and Symbian.

eTopUpOnline service allows customers to load money to their mobile phones or those of their relatives or friends. Apart from the website the top-up service is also available from over 150,000 retail stores around the world.

eBay is expanding its mobile reach in Europe through a deal with Telefonica which will equip the ecommerce giant with most smartphones and feature phones sold by the Telefonica via its O2 brand with eBay’s mobile app or a link to eBay’s mobile page pre-loaded.

The agreement includes most Android, Windows 7, Symbian and Bada devices sold by O2 in the UK over the next two years. Telefonica will actually work with device manufacturers to pre-install the application.

Nokia Siemens Networks is teaming up with MoreMagic Solutions for mobile commerce and financial services. Their jointly designed Mobile Payment Solution enables the delivery of a wide range of services including money transfer, mobile banking, mobile payments and near field communication (NFC) proximity payments.

ProPay (www.propay.com), provider of Merchant Services, End-to-End Payment Security, credit card processing, and electronic payment services, is pleased to announce the debut of its new social mobile payment (m-payment) platform, provisionally named Zumogo’ in its initial release during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival®. It is a mobile payment application that facilitates payments and bi-directional communication between merchants and their consumers, allowing customers and businesses to connect in a powerful new way.

airtel Africa, Standard Chartered Bank and MasterCard Worldwide have partnered to launch first virtual card that will reside on a mobile phone. The new payment method dubbed as airtel 1time Shopping Card will further promote mobile commerce in Africa.

Using their mobile phones airtel Africa customers in Kenya will be able to make online purchases from MasterCard merchants around the world.

Ecommerce pioneer eBay has purchased Critical Path Software, a mobile application developer, in a move to further increase its selling via mobile market. The terms of the transaction were not unveiled.

A Portland, Oregon-based company has partnered with eBay for over 2 years with the key focus on developing its app for Apple Inc's iPhone, which eBay says has been downloaded more than 14 million times.

Apart from this Critical Path also developed applications for eBay's ticket site StubHub, eBay Classified and shopping site Shopping.com.

Mocapay is partnering with Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center, a hotel and condominium resort in Breckenridge, Colorado, to enable mobile marketing and mobile gift using existing point-of-sale equipment.

“We are excited to be partnering with Mocapay to offer a new way to connect with our guests,” said Bob Barto, General Manager of Beaver Run Resort. “The Mocapay platform provides us the tools necessary to engage with our visitors in new and innovative ways, allowing us to grow our customer base and ultimately increase revenue.”

Three major mobile industry players AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless have partnered to launch a joint venture that builds on ISIS, a national mobile commerce network that aims to fundamentally transform how people shop, pay and save.

 According t the latest report of Lightspeed Research currently we evidence a new mobile shopping boom. 

The poll has shown that 48% of mobile phone users had made a purchase via their mobile phone. The most part of mobile shoppers are 18-34 year olds however one third of the respondents belong to 55+ group. 

It became known that Western Union has selected MoreMagic Solutions, a provider of mobile payment and mobile money transfer solutions for its Mobile Vendor Program. 

The main aim of this program is decrease of integration costs and to create standard technical deployments to help banks and mobile operators to penetrate the market. 

First Data Corporation entered into a strategic partnership with SK C&C USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK C&C Co. Ltd. to bring mobile commerce services to the US and eventually worldwide.

As a part of their collaboration First Data and SK C&C will work together to enable financial institutions, retailers and mobile operators to provide innovative mobile commerce services to their customers. SK C&C will deliver a complete set of convenient and secure mobile commerce services to First Data’s financial institutions and merchant customers.

On the official company blog Bill Zielke of PayPal announced that their partners at Magento, the open-source ecommerce platform, had unveiled the general availability of Magento Mobile today. Using PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library, Magento Mobile makes it simple for merchants to create a native, branded mobile-commerce iPhone app with ease.