Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics.
Good news for the team over at Obopay who will wake up on Wednesday morning with 60 million potential mobile money transfer/purchase customers, thanks to a deal with Verizon.
Link: Free Article - WSJ.com
Verizon Wireless plans to Wednesday announce a deal with mobile-payment company Obopay Inc. to allow subscribers to transfer money and make purchases via their mobile phones.
Email This Post
Advertise here: Reach thousands of industry executives daily.
Messaging Solutions
Clickatell's SMS gateway allows you to send messages to almost any mobile phone in the world. SMS enable any application easily and send two-way messages to over 712 mobile networks in 212 countries reliably. Take a look at ClickatellÕs SMS messaging solutions and register for a free trial today.
Your hub for mobile news blogged by Ewan MacLeod and his team of fanatics. Put this in your feed reader and have a scan every now and then to track what's cooking around the world.
Copyright © 2008 SMS Text News / Tollejo Media Group Web Design by Forty
Obopay Rocks while Paypal “Talks”
Does anyone else thing its sweet justice that these little guys from Obopay are simply mopping the floor with Paypal Mobile !
Obopay has in short order,
Launched with Verizon, Announced with Citi, Launched with AOL IM & raised money from nothing but tier one players like Qualcomm Ventures & Redpoint.
Paypal Mobile is arrogant, aggresive and over charges, their community with poor business practices. This game was PayPals game to loose, and sure enough, they are losing it.
I love it when good people with good ideas win by doing the right thing for their customers - shareholders & the market in general.
Rock on Obopay!
MR-I
Posted by Mr-I on June 20th, 2007 at 7:03 pm.Yes, its surprising that Paypal has done so little on mobile.
Especially when Paypal started of designed for mobile, backed by Nokia (called X.com originally) and then it moved to the web when operators built walled gardens.
But I expect they will get round to it in due course. Probably Google checkout is occupying their minds….
RH
Posted by Roland Holmes on June 21st, 2007 at 9:24 pm.