Mobile RoundUp: SinglePoint buys M2Junction, Western Union Chooses mChek

SinglePoint buys SMS/Mobile advertising platform – M2Junction It’s really a big time for Hyderabad-based SMS/Mobile advertising platform – M2Junction which was recently acquired by a...
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Panel Discussion On The Possibilities, IAMAI Symposium On Financial Inclusion Through Mobile Phones

A Panel discussion on the Possibilities then followed after R.Chandrashekhar’s talk The panel constituted of Anil Pande, Head Product Development Management, Reliance Communications Sunil Kulkarni,...
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Funding Updates: MChek – Nexus | Nokia Growth Partners – Web 18

Funding continues in the Indian space. Though its still more of middle to late stage funding that seems to be filling up the Indian digital media space. Here are two recent deals. One in the mobile space...
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Accell & mChek Showcase Contactless Payment System

Soon current payments methods like credit card,debit cards,sms mobile payments will become history. Accells and mChek showcased a revolutionary patent pending technology which can make contactless payments...
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TieUps Update: BigFlix – MChek / Cricinfo – Snaptu

Mobile tie ups seems to be the flavour of the day! Two web companies have tied up with two mobile companies for two very different reasons. Here is is a low down on their respective tie ups. BigFlix ties...
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Mobile Payments & MCommerce – The Future Opportunities & Challenges

With the RBI guidelines coming to the fore the mobile payments market has an official go ahead from the authorities. So we thought it was a great time to speak to some of the mobile payment players and...
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Mobile VAS In India And Its Future – VAS Players & Telecom Operators Speak Out

WATBlog attended the Mobile VAS Roundtable on crystal ball gazing for the VAS Industry organised by IAMAI and Businessworld and came back with some interesting insights from the panel which had the following...
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Obopay Tagit Tieup While RBI Announces M-Banking Guidelines

Obopay a mobile payment services company  which entered India earlier this year has tied up with Tagit a provider of mobile interactive platform inorder to create a common mobile banking infrastructure...
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Banks To Issue Separate M-Pin For M-Commerce – RBI Proposes Mobile Payments Guidelines

According to the latest guidlines drafted by RBI banks may soon have to issue separate M-Pins for customers who wish to use their mobiles for making payments. With mobile payment players like paymate,...
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Funding Updates: Paymate Gets B Series 9 Million $ in Funding.. Does Funding Alienate A Company?

Funding is in vogue be it the international circuit where players like twitter and even iphone centric development startups are seeing interest from VCs. Closer to home, the scene may not be as hot as...
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OboPay – Another Mobile Payment Player Comes to India

Obopay is a mobile payment transfer solutions provider based out of the US which is slated to launch its services in India in February. Obopay plans to take the debit card route to mobile payments rather...
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