Tapit has announced the completion of a $2.4 million Series A round led by MPC Ventures Pty Limited, a subsidiary of Sydney-based Monash Private Capital. Tapit has developed an NFC ecosystem that simplifies the way people receive content and information when they are on the go. Users simply tap one of the Tapit symbols with […]

Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) does not contain biometric records of as many as 3.72 million women voters. As reported by Dawn.com, the database records fingerprints and photographs of voters. Due to social values of the country around women being photographed, Nadra does allow for the rules to be relaxed in terms of […]

Dave Marcus, president of PayPal, takes a look into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for the 2013 mobile payments landscape. Marcus is adamant that the payments revolution that has begun this past year with NFC-enabled transactions and mobile wallet apps will continue into the new year. It is clear that the public is […]

With mobile banking solutions seeing increased adoption and the presence of mobile devices permeating virtually every facet of contemporary society, Frost & Sullivan have predicted that four topics will dominate the financial services market in 2013: contactless payments, commercial mobile payment offerings, cloud-based solutions and data analytics. In a release from Frost & Sullivan, the […]

MasterCard announced it will soon release PayPass bank cards using contactless payment technology to the Azerbaijani market, according to Trend. The technology is = used in 48 countries and will be new to the Azerbaijani market when it is introduced in the first half of 2013. PayPass enables MasterCard cardholders to “Tap & Go,” paying […]

The Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pa. has expanded the distribution of the ConnectCard electronic fare collection system to now include riders who purchase weekly passes, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Riders who buy weekly passes at the Downtown Service Center, the Giant Eagle Market District store in Shadyside and the Giant Eagle at […]

Holder Construction and WS Bellow Construction, two construction companies based in Texas, have installed an RFID system to monitor some of their most valuable assets – their workers, according to Constructech. The system, created by ADR Software LLC, uses RFID tags affixed to hard hats and ID badges to keep tabs on workers as they […]

Oslo Airport has implemented EasyPass, a self-service passport control available to travelers who have Norwegian biometric passports arriving from Non-Schengen countries. The airport collaborated with the National Police Directorate on the system, which comprises two automated units at the Non-Schengen arrival gate. The automated units have a two-step process. A traveler scans his passport at […]