USA Technologies and ViVOtech have announced entering into an agreement by which ViVOtech would provide 25,000 contactless/magstripe card readers for USAT’s ePort technology.   » Continue Reading

ViVOtech has announced that it has secured an equity investment from Citi to develop mobile commerce technologies. Terms were not disclosed.   » Continue Reading

paybox and ViVOtech have announced they are partnering "to extend NFC-enabled remote and proximity m-Payments anytime and anywhere, in virtually any e-Commerce or m-Commerce scenario."   » Continue Reading

BART has announced that "a select group of BART riders is helping to launch a first-in-the-nation technological trial that will allow participants to walk up to any BART fare gate with a specially-equipped Sprint wireless phone and pay for their ride by tagging the phone on a reader located on top of the gate."   » Continue Reading

ViVOtech has announced that its "ViVOnfc infrastructure software for Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile phone payments is being used by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in its first NFC mobile phone payment launch in conjunction with MasterCard at the MasterCard Masters Golf Tournament."   » Continue Reading

NCR in partnership with ViVOtech has announced a suite of contactless payment terminals for the point of sale (POS) that "enable mobile and contactless payment at a variety of customer touch points, including retail checkout, restaurant drive-thru and the diner’s table."   » Continue Reading

Mark Schwanhausser writes for the San Jose Mercury News about contactless payments and Santa Clara, CA-based Vivotech, a major provider of contactless payment acceptance devices. Vivotech has announced closing a $22.5 million Series C financing round. Strategic investors in the round include First Data Corp. and NCR (here's the NCR press release announcing their participation in the financing).

ViVOtech and mFoundry have announced they will be working together to "provide mobile financial services to wireless customers. mFoundry’s and ViVOtech’s technologies, when combined, give consumers a simple new way to use their mobile phone for contactless payments, banking and commerce."   » Continue Reading

Business Week takes a look at mobile banking and payments - including Citibank's pilot with Obopay, PayPal Mobile, Firethorn and First Data's efforts including last week's investment in VIVOtech.

First Data Corp. has announced a strategic investment in ViVOtech and that it plans to use ViVOtech's collection of emerging technologies that include Near Field Communication (NFC) terminals and mobile commerce enablement. According to First Data, its investment will come in the form of acting as the lead investor in ViVOtech's Series C round of financing.   » Continue Reading

ViVOtech has partnered with Mobile Candy Dish to "provide consumers a complete end-to-end mobile commerce platform" by combining ViVOwallet OTA and NFC mobile payment software and the Mobile Candy Dish Blaze suite of mobile services. With the combined offering, the two companies say "consumers can use their mobile phone to get movie information and pay for tickets using any form of credit, debit or gift card, as well as to redeem theater tickets electronically without any delays at the venue by using the ViVOtech contactless readers."   » Continue Reading

ViVOtech has announced the f"irst deployment of an end-to-end NFC payment and promotion infrastructure software in Taiwan as part of a joint initiative by MasterCard, Taipei Fubon Bank and Taiwan Mobile. The three companies are launching a broad NFC mobile phone payment pilot program based on ViVOtech technologies in the region."   » Continue Reading

HSBC Credit Card Services has announced it has launched a mobile phone payments pilot based on Near Field Communications technology in partnership with MasterCard and ViVOtech.   » Continue Reading

Bend, Oregon-based RocketBux has announced it will be offering its mobile phone-based marketing services through an agreement with lViVOtech. RocketBux provides targeted retail offers and coupons as well as enhanced loyalty programs from merchants to participating mobile phone users and will use ViVOtech’s ViVOplatform as its SMS advertising delivery engine.   » Continue Reading

ViVOtech and Obopay have announced a partnership to "allow Obopay users to access the ViVOwallet to conveniently and securely pay for retail goods by waving their near field communications (NFC) mobile devices in front of the more than 160,000 retail outlets equipped with a ViVOtech point-of-sale device."   » Continue Reading

ViVOtech has announced the industry's first end-to-end Near Field Communication (NFC) payment solution.

The new ViVOnfc solution provides a secure infrastructure that will accelerate the adoption and usage of NFC enabled mobile phones. With ViVOnfc, users with NFC phones will be able to "carry their credit and debit cards virtually" and make Contactless payments at merchant locations.

NFC technology provides short-range wireless connectivity -- over a typical distance of just 2-4 inches. Since NFC devices do not operate over a carrier's radio spectrum, they can be used anywhere.

Philips and ViVOtech have announced a new initiative to deploy Philip's Near Field Communication (NFC) technology-based contactless payment solutions at merchant locations allowing an NFC-enabled mobile phone to be used as a payment and promotion device.   » Continue Reading

VIVOtech has announced VIVOgiftcard, a contactless gift card solution for retailers.

 "The market for gift cards is immense and constitutes a critical element for adding revenues and growing a retailer's business. Gift cards are the fastest growing segment in the payment space with sales expected to total $36 to $38 billion for 2002, up 20% from the prior year. Gift cards account for 5% or more of total sales at major retailers," said Jorge Fernandes, CEO and co-founder of ViVOtech.

"Now, for the first time, retailers can differentiate their gift card product, enhance loyalty programs and provide a means to measure these programs. And they can help consumers at the same time by solving the wallet share problem and offering a delightful payment experience -- fast, flexible, secure and extremely convenient."