Everything Everywhere, O2 and Vodafone have been working together on a mobile commerce joint venture (“JV”) which has today has received unconditional clearance from the European Commission. Guy Laurence, Ronan Dunne and Tom Alexander The mobile commerce joint venture is aimed at getting one consistent backend platform to better enable mobile commerce. The service will [...]
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Everything Everywhere, O2 and Vodafone Approved For Mobile Commerce Joint Venture
Posted by Rob Gordon on September 5th, 2012
Posted in All, Mobile Electronics, Social 
Tags: ecommerce, everything, everywhere, jv, mobile, o2, payments, vodafone 
Contactless Payments Pass 1 Million Transactions Per Month
Posted by Admin on August 24th, 2012
"Tap and go" contactless payments have reached more than one million transactions a month across the UK, research has found. Barclaycard recorded the payments milestone in July, using figures from itself and Barclays, which has issued more than 90% of the contactless cards on the market. More than 80% of people can identify the contactless [...]
Marks & Spencer Adopts Contactless Payments
Posted by Andrew on August 13th, 2012
Marks & Spencer have adopted contactless payments in their 25 busiest stores in London according to The Guardian. The service, provided by payment processor Streamline and Visa Europe, lets customers buy items for with a simple touch that cost less than £20. Mark Austin, head of contactless at Visa Europe, said: We now have over [...]
O2 Announce Launch Of “O2 Wallet”
Posted by Rob Gordon on April 26th, 2012
O2 today announced the launch of O2 Wallet, a seamless and secure digital wallet service that will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available. Developed by a team of 250 experts from a variety of specialist fields including financial payments and e and m-commerce, [...]
Posted in All, iPhone / iPad Tags: Apple, contactless, debenhams, iphone, o2, o2wallet, payments UK Networks form Joint Venture to manage mobile payments and advertising
Posted by Rob Gordon on June 20th, 2011
Everything Everywhere, Telefónica UK (owners of O2) and Vodafone UK have announced plans to create a standalone m-commerce joint venture (JV) to provide a single contact for advertisers and retailers to manage mobile advertising and mobile e-commerce products. Although formed by the big three, the JV is open to anyone, and is aimed to simply [...]
Posted in All, Mobile Electronics, Social Tags: everything, everywhere, jv, mobile, o2, payments, telefonica, vodafone McDonalds to support contactless payments by Summer 2011
Posted by Admin on January 24th, 2011
McDonalds has confirmed it plans to support contactless payments by the summer of 2011 in all its restaurants throughout the UK. Heavily promoted by VISA the technology was launched back in 2007 and there are approximately 12million enabled cards in circulation. Many people have cards without even realising due to the lack of places to [...]
