Michael Diamond interviewed by Brad Garland of Banktastic.com
Banktastic.com has just released an interview of Obopay’s SVP of Business Development, Michael Diamond.
The audio podcast covers just about everything you’d want to know about Obopay today — from basic Obopay uses in day-to-day life to Obopay’s partnership with Grameen at Bankabillion.org.
Michael even tells us he uses Obopay to pay his daughter’s piano teacher. Good stuff!
Listen to the podcast. (Duration 25:57)
Thanks to Brad and Michael for a great interview!
Banktastic.com describes itself “very simply a ’social networking & knowledge hub’ for the financial industry.” Learn more about Banktastic.
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December 2nd, 2008
In a recent article in PaymentsNews, Jim Bruene wrote about the potential for future mobile payments in the form of a contactless sticker… just a simple sticker that you could place onto a mobile device to instantly enable it for payments. Just a cool idea that I thought I would pass along. To learn more about the stickers, called GO-Tags, click on the article and corresponding blog here.
Technorati Tags: mobile payments, contactless payment sticker, PaymentsNews, Jim Bruene, GO-Tags
September 2nd, 2008
Its always cool to see our company on big news channels like ABC… Not only because its a great form of marketing for our business, but mainly as reassurance that our product and our vision for global wireless money transfers is something that people take interest in, and something that people would mark as a valuable, benevolent service. Anyway, I couldn’t find the code to embed the video on our website, so if you’d like to see our moment in the limelight, just click here and then click on the second (2) image titled “Pay all your bills with your cell phone.”
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August 13th, 2008
I was out at lunch today and saw that another sign that mobile payments is becoming more popular, which is great since mobile payment is obviously the core of Obopay. Anyway, I took a picture of it:
I am surprised that paying for parking with your phone is not a bigger deal here in the Bay Area. I mean, if you have been to (or live in) the Bay Area should know how much we end up spending on parking meters, especially in San Francisco. It’s such a hassle finding coins to feed the meter too.
This paying by phone thing is great. I read somewhere a while back that they were trying to implement this for BART too. Not sure how that’s going, but can you imagine if you can just swipe your phone across the subway in New York? That’d be awesome!
Technorati Tags: cell phone, payment, bay area, san francisco, obopay, mobile payment, hassle
June 17th, 2008
We officially announced that we raised another $20 million worth of funding earlier today.
“Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, recently announced closing of its fourth round of venture funding, raising $20 million, and the addition of two new board members. This latest round of investment builds on Obopay’s enormous momentum in its business and high-profile partnerships.
‘This round of investment builds on Obopay’s proven success in the mobile payments market,’ explained Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay. ‘With our continuing focus on delivering services built on specific feedback from consumers, such as the ability to send money from and receive money to any US bank account, the success of our partnerships and our international expansion, we remain confident in the viability of the American – and global — mobile payments market.’
Essar Communications Holdings Limited, the telecom subsidiary of Essar Global Limited, led the round and current investors, including Alliance Bernstein, ONSET Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Richmond Management and Richmond Global Cellular, Citi, Societe Generale, Qualcomm, and Promethean participated. New investors included Essar Communications Holdings Limited and Olayan America Corporation, a global investment office of The Olayan Group.”
You can read the rest of the press release here.
Technorati Tags: obopay, money, business, news
April 24th, 2008
Redherring.com interviewed Carol in their article about Amazon’s introduction of TextBuyIt. Here’s what Carol had to say:
” ‘This validates our market and it will get even more merchants and others interested in offering consumers the ability to purchase on the go,’ Ms. Realini said.
Despite the growing sophistication of mobile phones and the emergence of the mobile web, large banks and retailers in the U.S. have been reluctant to adopt mobile banking and mobile payments.
But Ms. Realini believes that those attitudes are changing, in part due to changing attitudes among consumers.
‘We have seen a lot of interest in mobile payments from all age groups,’ she said. ‘There are some people who need convincing around safety, but there is a whole lifestyle that has developed around mobile phones and mobile commerce is part of that.’ “
You can read the rest of the article here.
April 3rd, 2008
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