There’s Something About Bango: The Billing Company Behind Facebook,...
There are a number of companies that offer carrier billing for companies in the mobile space — that is, services that let people buy content on their devices and charge it right to their carrier — but...
View ArticleBoxPAY Debuts Its Carrier Billing Platform For Smart TVs
Betting big on the future monetization opportunities to be found in the “smart TV” ecosystem is boxPAY, a company which is now bringing the carrier billing option to TV apps and services. With boxPAY,...
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Payvia Debuts New Carrier Billing Platform, Offers Support For T-Mobile & Sprint
Today, a company called payvia is launching a new mobile payments platform for carrier billing. But unlike several in this space, payvia is not a new player in the mobile industry. The company was spun...
View ArticleSocial Gaming, Dating Account For The Biggest Growth In Carrier Billing
Over the last year, we have seen some notable advances in mobile carrier billing — which lets people pay for services and content on their phones by charging it to their carrier bills: Google expanded...
View ArticleSkype Gets Closer To Mobile Carriers, Inks Deal With Mach For Direct Billing...
Ahead of Nokia and Microsoft’s big event in New York today, where they will formally announce new Nokia/Windows Phone devices, Microsoft is making a little pre-show appearance in the form of Skype, the...
View ArticleMore Headway For Carrier Billing: MACH Integrates With Vodafone, EE, Three...
Another move ahead for carrier billing and making it something practical and useful for developers: the billing company Mach is announcing a wide-ranging deal that will see it offer direct carrier...
View ArticleDon’t Call It WAC! Telefonica Adds Telenor To Its BlueVia API Platform,...
Telefonica today has announced a deal with Telenor as its first carrier partner to the BlueVia API platform — one of the Spanish company’s many efforts, via Telefonica Digital, to create new lines of...
View ArticleFacebook Turns On Carrier Billing Mobile Payments In France With Orange...
Another step in Facebook’s plans to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments in France, covering services like virtual gifts and game credits for its...
View ArticleGoogle Play Gets Carrier Billing Thanks To New Arrangement With Facebook...
Mobile carrier billing company Bango continues its hot streak of signing up big name partners today, thanks to a new arrangement with Google to bring its carrier billing to Google Play, beginning in...
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Rhapsody Adds AT&T And Verizon Carrier Billing To Get A Beat On Spotify And MOG
Veteran music streaming service Rhapsody has been around for over a decade. It’s managed to survive in a turbulent (and oftentimes) crowded market, even as it has been eclipsed in popularity by...
View ArticleAmazon’s Carrier Billing Deal With Bango To Kick In This Year – Changes For...
Amazon has yet to turn on any services on the back of a deal it signed with carrier billing specialist Bango over a year ago, but it looks like we may finally see the first fruits come out later this...
View ArticleTelefonica Adds Samsung As A Carrier Billing OEM For Apps, Games, Music And More
Telefonica is today announcing a deal with Samsung that will see it make an even bigger move into the area of carrier billing. Samsung will integrate the carrier’s billing backend directly into its own...
View ArticleMobile Payment Startup Payvia Buys Mogreet To Add Messaging-Based Marketing...
Some more consolidation afoot in the worlds of mobile marketing and mobile payments: Payvia, one of the many startups working in the area of carrier-based mobile billing, is buying Mogreet, a mobile...
View ArticleMicrosoft Turns On Its First Carrier-Billing Deal For The Windows Phone Store...
Microsoft, unveiling a raft of product annoucements at its Build conference this week, is also making some advances further afield. Today, Bango, the UK-based mobile payments and analytics company that...
View ArticleMozilla’s Firefox Phones Get Operator Billing Through Bango
Mozilla has signed mobile payments company Bango to allow operator billing on the Firefox OS marketplace. That means that users on the soon-to-be-released Firefox phones will be able to pay for their...
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Amazon Has Turned On Carrier Billing For Apps, In Germany With Bango And O2
Amazon, the e-commerce giant that recently added smartphones to its growing mobile empire, is now turning on another element to bring more users and usage into its mobile business. It will now enable...
View ArticleBoku Buys Germany’s Mopay In Carrier Billing Consolidation, Covering 5B Users
Boku — the U.S.-based startup that enables consumers to pay for goods on their phones by charging directly on to their phone bills or deducting from available phone credits — is today announcing it is...
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Apple Rolls Out Carrier Billing For iTunes, Starting In Germany With O2
At long last, Apple is adding a way for people to pay for purchases on iTunes beyond credit or debit cards — a move that points to the company sharpening its focus on marketing the iPhone to a wider...
View ArticleApple introduces carrier billing in Switzerland and Taiwan, its first market...
Apple has quietly switched on mobile carrier billing in two countries, thereby doubling its total reach. Switzerland and Taiwan — the latter marks its first such partnership in Asia — the two countries...
View ArticleCarrier billing startup Boku to raise £45M in London IPO November 20
Boku, the startup that partners with Apple in its rollout of carrier billing for the App Store, expects to raise £45 million ($60 million) on a post-money valuation of £125 million ($164 million) when...
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