13.08.2012 17:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Google, PayPal, VeriFone and US carriers form Mobile Payments Committee without Apple, Square

With all of the talk about mobile payments via smartphone, it's surprising that this didn't happen earlier. A number of companies have banded together to form the Mobile Payments Committee as part of the overall Electronic Transactions Association, hoping to define the future of commercial transactions. Apple and payments pioneer Square are not on the committee. The companies that are on the committee are a who's-who of big names; Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Wells Fargo, Capital One, and all four of the top U.S. mobile carriers. Not surprisingly, Google, ISIS and PayPal are also on the committee, along with credit card processor Verifone. Why is Apple not on the l

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