Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled a new feature that enables users in the United Kingdom to top up their account wallet to obtain content from PlayStation®Store and across the Sony Entertainment Network using their mobile phone account. Working with mobile payments company, Boku, the process makes it easier for users to obtain
Mobile payments app SnapScan was voted ‘App of the Year’ at the annual MTN Business App of the Year Awards in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg. The 8-month old start-up from Stellenbosch managed to beat 253 other entrants, including apps from FNB, DStv, and Discovery, to take the top prize. In addition to being named app of the year,
M-PESA, the flagship brand of the leading integrated communications service provider Safaricom Limited, has introduced a new rent collection and payment service dubbed Lipa Kodi na M-PESA. Under the new scheme, customers will pay Kshs.6 for transactions of upto to Kshs. 5,000 while those paying between Kshs.50, 000 and Kshs.70, 000 will be charged a
The State Law Office of Kenya has entered into a partnership with Safaricom to automate some of its services. The KSh 14 million contract will see Safriacom providing it’s M-Pesa platform for the payment of services such as registration of companies, societies, or weddings. The announcement was made at an event held at the SLO
US debit and ATM network PULSE and Paydiant, a provider of a cloud-based mobile wallet and offer redemption platform, are working together to provide an easy-to-use mobile commerce solution for PULSE participants. The Paydiant solution will enable PULSE financial institution and merchant partners to quickly deploy contactless payment and cash access functionality to better serve their
Mobile payments provider Fortumo has announced direct carrier billing agreements with China Unicom and China Telecom. Together with an earlier partnership with China Mobile, Fortumo is now the first and only mobile payments provider who can provide mobile operator billing for in-app purchases to all 1.15 billion mobile phone subscribers in China. “China is already the largest
RBC today announced its RBC Secure Cloud mobile payments service (patent-pending). This new technology, a first in Canada, will allow clients to more safely and securely pay for purchases using their mobile devices. Keeping sensitive client data secure with RBC in the cloud, not on the phone, makes RBC Secure Cloud a safer, faster, more
Payvia, the direct carrier billing mobile payments and messaging provider, announced a partnership to integrate its mobile payments technology with Mobile XL, whose feature phone browsing platform provides access to digital services such as Facebook, Twitter, email, news, sports and games for millions of people in Africa and India. Mobile-XL browsers use SMS as a data
Ensygnia, the mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today confirmed it had been granted its second UK patent. The company, which recently closed its $3.3m start-up funding round, added that its granted UK patents now covered both log-in and payment processes. Ensygnia also confirmed that it had now acted on its
‘Airtel Money’, Bharti Airtel’s mobile money platform, is making a mark in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the government embracing it to make large-scale salary payments from December last year. Now, civil servants including the military, the police force, pensioners and other civil servants can receive payments on their mobile phones. Louis Luballa, the Managing Director
