A new survey finds that airlines around the world will increasingly support mobile boarding passes. That trend will result in more consumers using their phones at the ticket counter, which in… Read more »
Masabi is a U.K. startup specializing and cloud-based smartphone ticketing technologies for public transit, and it just landed a $2.8 million strategic investment led by Bill Ford’s Fontinalis Venutures. Read more »
NFC has seen enormous hype as a vehicle for mobile payments, but the technology has yet to see any real uptake in major global markets. NFC-enabled handsets are beginning to come… Read more »
Major League Baseball executives say they’ve seen impressive uptake of Apple’s Passbook as a vehicle for distributing tickets to games. While mobile ticketing isn’t the same thing as mobile payments, Passbook’s… Read more »
Boston rail commuters will soon have the ability to use their smartphones to buy and display their train tickets. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will launch the U.S.’s first smartphone rail… Read more »
Much of this growth will be driven by the emergence of NFC technology and contactless payments. The existing NFC-enabled POS infrastructure in developed regions such as the U.S., Europe and Japan,… Read more »
Mobile payments have taken off in the last few years and are now poised to grow from $240 billion this year to $670 billion worldwide in 2015, aided by growing near… Read more »