In an article titled “Nokia Makes a Call for Global Mobile Payments“, Steve Bills writes for the American Banker about Nokia’s investment in mobile payments provider Obopay.
Bills cites a Nokia executive who compares the integration of cameras into mobile phones over the last few years with the potential for mobile banking and payments being similarly [...]

Amazon introduces mobile payments with Amazon TextPayMe.
Hot on the heels of a couple of other new payment solutions introduced recently, Amazon have introduced a new mobile phone payments solution. Today I take a quick look at it and compare how it stacks up against Obopay, the other mobile payments solution we have been featuring for [...]

Yesterday I posted about the fees furore surrounding receiving micropayments via mobile phones that are impacting social network sites and application developers.  Regular readers will know that BuildaSkill have also been following Obopay as a preferred mobile payments solution, and may have wondered why. This weeks news from this mobile payments company (below) will maybe [...]

An unsigned post on the Obopay blog shows just how the new mobile phone money transfer service is promoting themselves in the US.  Like any leading-edge technology, they’re going after the geeks first, which is of course, the correct way to go about it.
Obopay at Refresh Miami
From my Nokia to his iPhone!  In a split [...]

Q: What Is an Obol?
A: Obo is short for obolus, an ancient Greek coin.
Online payment service Obopay has explained the origin of the company’s name.  Carol Realini, Obopay’s founder, says she appreciates the history of money:  “I was inspired to name Obopay after the Obol because I wanted to recognize history in naming something entirely [...]

OboPay, the USA pay-by-mobile-phone provider has hit the mainstream news with coverage in the Wall Street Journal.
If you’re not familiar with the concept of using your mobile phone as a mobile wallet, you need to be as within a few years, or perhaps sooner, using your phone to make and receive payments is going to [...]