NFC mobile payments use Apple Pay and Google Pay through contactless card readers. By 2026, 60% of people globally will use ...

Samsung has agreed a partnership with financial giant Visa that will enable the next generation of Samsung mobile devices to benefit from in-built Visa payment technology. Samsung and Visa said that ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch will have a Near Field Communication chip in it, according to reports. But only time will tell if Samsung plans to use the chip for payments. For the most ...

Visa Inc.’s certifications of various smartphones to support its payWave contactless payments helps to free up a major obstacle to development of a mobile-payment acceptance at the point of sale. The ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV are teaming up to incorporate Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology in future cell-phone models from Samsung, giving users the ...

Former Samsung Pay heads have launched a new mobile payment solution to take on Apple Pay called OV Valet that works with magstripe readers and NFC. The new startup is designed to be much more ...

I used to think Samsung Wallet was just tap-to-pay. But Samsung kept adding to it, and somewhere along the line it turned ...

On Thursday Samsung and Visa announced a new partnership under which the two firms will provide an NFC mobile payment solution before, during, and after the London 2012 Olympics. The two companies ...

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