Mocapay has announced the integration of association branded cards into its mobile wallet through the VeriFone PAYMEDIA solution. "Through this partnership, Mocapay merchants will benefit from an additional payment type, the ability to learn critical demographic information about their target consumer, and the ability to engage one-on-one with their customers through Mocapay’s integrated mobile marketing database."

Curious about mobile payments, but tired of reading the small print? Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson has compiled a collection of how-they-work videos. Included are videos from Bling Nation, PayNearMe, Square, BOKU, Intuit GoPayment, PayPal Mobile, VivoTech, Oberthur, MobilePay, MocaPay, and FaceCash.

The University of Denver's Daniels College of Business has announced that its School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) has entered into a strategic partnership with Mocapay to enable students to use their mobile phones to make purchases at Beans, the school's student run coffee shop. READ MORE »

In an article titled "NFC vs. Not-NFC, or “Why Put Card Data on the Phone?” A look at Mocapay" on our sister website PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson takes a look at Mocapay who earlier this morning announced their new secure mobile payments at POS solution.

She asks: "Instead of going through huge contortions to store [payment card] data securely on the phone – and possibly paying through the nose for it – why not simply avoid putting the card data on the phone?"

Mocapay has introduced what it claims is "the only mobile solution in the marketplace that enables secure, hardware infrastructure agnostic, mobile payments regardless of tender type and transaction location." The company was issued patent US 7,657,489 B2 on February 2, 2010 for this solution. READ MORE »

Merchants with existing plastic gift card programs can now take advantage of Mocapay's recently launched mobile gift card iPhone application, available on iTunes. READ MORE »

Mocapay has announced that ink! Coffee, a specialty coffee retailer with multiple stores throughout the greater Denver metro area and Aspen, has selected Mocapay to implement and operate its mobile gift program. ink! Coffee currently offers plastic gift cards at all of its locations and expects to "go live" with Mocapay's mobile gift in the second quarter of this year. READ MORE »

Mocapay has announced that it has been selected by Smart Transaction Systems (STS) as a mobile marketing and payment platform to mobilize STS’s card-based payment systems. Mocapay’s mobile marketing and payment platform enables real-time mobile payments, promotions and loyalty at the point of sale. Mocapay and STS will launch a pilot in 2008, selecting from STS’s 4,500 retail clients. READ MORE »