Mobile payment provider iZettle has released its first software development kit for developers. It follows the release of iZettle’s API in 2012.
The free iOS SDK makes it easier for developers to add payment services to their mobile applications in any of the nine countries where iZettle operates.
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T-Mobile US has launched a new financial service that it’s calling ‘Mobile Money by T-Mobile’.
It combines an Android or iOS app with a Visa prepaid card that has no monthly maintenance fee and no charge for many ATM withdrawals.
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Podcast - 22nd January 2014
In this week's podcast, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge talk about the new Zapp mobile payment scheme, Google's healthcare plans and an ultra-secure smartphone.
Also on the agenda are HP's new phablets, Jimmy Wales joining a UK MVNO, Apple's in-app purchases and plenty of research about tablets.
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Analyst firm Ovum has published its mobile payment and mobile advertising predictions for this year.
Ovum expects continued technology and service innovation, notably around location-based applications, in the mobile payments space in 2014. However, there will be increasing complexity within the mobile payments ecosystem this year, and on-going challenges around the business model for digital wallet services.
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A new UK mobile payment solution says it’s being adopted by at least five major financial service providers.
Later this year Zapp will be integrated into the mobile banking applications offered by HSBC, First Direct, Nationwide, Santander and Metro Bank, giving it access to over a third of all UK bank accounts.
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