We shall call this the “use your phone” series. If you live in NYC, fly Delta, and like to fly from LaGuardia, you can now test out this new “check in with your cell phone” thing! Here’s a little summary:
Well, this is definitely new and pretty interesting. I wonder how successful this is going to be.
Technorati Tags: airline, fly, airport, cell phone, cell phones, cnet
June 20th, 2008
Apple iPhone’s world domination continues! Apple and America Movil SAB, the top mobile company in Latin America, announced a partnership to bring the iPhone to Latin America today.
“America Movil SAB, controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it plans to bring the iPhone to all of its Latin American operations but didn’t offer more details about the arrangement, including whether it would be the exclusive iPhone provider in the targeted countries.” Read the whole article here.
Apple has been planning to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of this year. Given that America Movil has almost 160 million subscribers in multiple countries, I would say that they are on the right track.
Technorati Tags: iphone, apple, apple iphone, latin america, mexico, mexico city, mobile, business
May 8th, 2008
Another bank is adding mobile banking to their system. Cellular South and BancorpSouth have announced their new partnership. “Cellular South customers who bank with BancorpSouth will now be able to check their accounts, pay bills and transfer money with their phones.” Read the article here.
Another sign to show that the mobile banking industry is growing fast. Being able to transfer money on your phone is totally unheard of just a couple years ago. Now banks all across the world is trying to add this feature to their bundle of services for the customers.
Technorati Tags: mobile, mobile banking, money, cellular south, bank, banks, money transfer, pay bills
May 7th, 2008
In addition to our new partnership with YES Bank, we have also announced that we are in talks with a few other banks as well.
“We are in talks with a large public sector bank, a foreign bank and three private sector banks (for the tie-ups). We expect to announce these agreements in the next few months,” Obopay’s Executive Director Aditya Menon told reporters.
Due to the sensitivity of the matter, we are not allowed to discuss the names of these banks. Click here to read the article.
April 4th, 2008
As some of you probably already heard, we have officially expanded into India! About a week ago, we announced that we just reached a partnership with YES bank.
Taken directly from our press release:
“With Obopay, YES BANK customers securely and instantly transfer money to and from any mobile phone number with Obopay’s mobile application, text message or mobile Web. YES BANK customers can instantly withdraw cash received using their YES BANK debit card.”
Read the whole press release on Forbes.
India’s mobile market is growing fast. For 2008, they have been adding more than 8 million customers a month! Needless to say, we are really excited about this new opportunity.
April 4th, 2008
I am really not trying to brag, but Obopay has been all over the news recently. I just ran a quick search on Google News and saw that we actually showed up 38 times in the last month alone. This is just for news articles, not including blogs, forums, and other websites.
A lot of it probably has to do with our two major releases this month:
- We just launched an official partnership with Yes Bank in India.
- We released a new feature that allows you transfer money to any valid US mobile phone number, regardless of their bank account. You don’t even need their banking information! You can read our press release here.
We will certainly talk about these two things very soon. But needless to say, we are pretty excited about what’s going on!
April 1st, 2008
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