Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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Amtrak is beginning to offer mobile solutions for train passengers as the company is allowing customers to use smartphones instead of paper tickets while they board trains. Read Original Content

Starbucks is experiencing great success with its newly released mobile payment app. In the last nine weeks Starbucks handled six million mobile payments, double the volume of the first nine weeks after the system launched in January. Altogether it has handled 26 million mobile payment transactions since launch. Read Original Content

Mobile payments and other alternate payments could amount to $2.7 trillion in transactions by 2015, according to a study by Intuit. That would make mobile payments easily twice as popular as cash. Read Original Content

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Research firm Gartner estimates that global mobile payment users will exceed 141 million this year, an increase of more than 38 percent compared with last year, while the volume of mobile payments will exceed $86 billion, up 76 percent from last year’s $48.9 billion. Read Original Content