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NFC mobile payments to hit $74B by 2015, says Juniper

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Near-field communications (NFC) payments are off to a slow start here in the U.S., but Juniper Research believes that they will reach a...

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The state of mobile payments: No more waiting on NFC

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Last year, I wrote an article for VentureBeat about how mobile phones and near field communication (NFC) technology could enhance the...

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ViVOTech gets investors to open up their digital wallets for new funding

Chances are, if you’ve shopped at Home Depot or gone to McDonald’s lately, you’ve seen one of ViVOTech’s credit card readers. The company, which develops hardware and software for digital wallets and...

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Funding daily: syncing contacts to the cloud, automating servers, and mobile...

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and...

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Get ready: NFC is nearing its tipping point

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale The mobile experience is in a renaissance period, from phones to tablets to autos and more. We’re seeing multi-core processors come to...

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Nokia’s Lumia 610 is the first NFC Windows Phone — gets Visa, MasterCard support

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Today wasn’t the best day for Nokia to announce a new device, given the company’s lowered Q1 expectations, but maybe the new Lumia 610 will...

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The trouble with NFC: it needs cooperation to succeed

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Gartner recently reported that more than 200 million near field communication (NFC) enabled handsets will enter the marketplace by the end...

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Tap it out: Foursquare for BlackBerry updated with NFC support

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Check-in service Foursquare is helping its BlackBerry fans bridge the cross-platform communication gap, enabling them to exchange tips,...

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Gartner: Mobile payments will top $171B this year, despite fragmentation

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale The current state of the mobile payment industry could at best be called slightly confounding, or, at worst, a complete mess. But in spite...

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With Samsung’s programmable TecTiles, NFC may finally get relevant

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Imagine walking into a coffee shop and swiping your phone across a NFC tag to get access to Wi-Fi, instead of begging for the Wi-Fi...

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Forget apps, hackers could use NFC to get access to your phone

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Near-field communication helps you pay for things using your phone, quickly get through subway turnstiles and more. But NFC could give a...

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Google Wallet: Leave home without it

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Sometimes companies do something just to feel like they’re making progress, even if that something makes no sense. That’s the only way I...

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Discover gives its blessing to Google Wallet and rewards users with cash back

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Talk of mobile payment services has hit fever pitch this week. Adding to the cacophony is an update from Discover that it has officially...

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A tale of two iPhones — what an NFC-equipped iPhone would do to the mobile...

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Right now it’s the best of times for mobile payment companies, with new ideas and startups cropping up what seems like daily.When and if...

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As Isis launch nears, NFC mobile payments still feel like a pipe dream

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale The long awaited mobile payments service Isis is set to debut in September, according to a Bloomberg report. But it’s tough to muster much...

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8 major disappointments from Apple’s iPhone 5 Announcement

Happy about the new iPhone 5? You should be … or maybe you shouldn’t, because the announcements made today weren’t everything that we’d hoped for. In fact, some are startlingly painful. Here are eight...

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NFC’s ongoing user interface problem: some readers don’t work

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale I haven’t had a lot of kind words for NFC, the mobile payments mechanism that some have touted as the Next Big Thing in payments. I’ve...

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These high-tech ‘smart socks’ have RFID, NFC, and far too much knowledge...

There really is an app for everything. This is not always a good thing, since unfortunately it includes things and activities that have no conceivable need for one. Like sorting socks. I really could...

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Moo’s NFC business cards combine an aging format with an unpopular technology

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Business cards are objects increasingly out-of-place in our technology-focused times. But don’t tell that to Moo, which is working on a way...

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Airtag releasing NFC mobile payments developer kit, wishes Apple would help...

Want to build mobile payment apps? Tomorrow, the Paris-based company that built MasterCard’s PayPass SDK and counts McDonald’s and Reebok among its mobile commerce clients will release the Airtag Kit,...

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