Category Archives: Mobile Payment

How does Carrier Billing compare with Credit Card and Paypal for Blackberry App World?

This is a question that is often asked by investors seeking to forecast how fast Bango’s transaction volume will grow in coming months and years. Bango is unable to disclose information about the sales of our customers, but a small … Continue reading

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How do Boku and Zong systems differ from Bango Payment?

Boku and Zong are systems that allow users of PC browser based applications to place charges to their phone bills – sometimes called “Bill to my Mobile Number”. Bango is focussed on collecting payments from applications running on a mobile … Continue reading

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Free Premium Apps for Blackberry Users – any impact on Bango Business?

RIM – the makers of the Blackberry – (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced today that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of … Continue reading

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Blackberry App World: Carrier Billing via Bango now Live in 10 Countries

The importance of Blackberry App World (BBAW) to the fortunes of RIM (The Maker of the ubiquitous Blackberry)  was underlined by Mike Lazaridis – co-CEO of RIM – during their investor update on Friday 16th September ( http://www.rim.com/investors/events/ ). Mike showed … Continue reading

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Industry news – Mobile payments from Bango increase GoSpoken.com eBook sales

Delivering a new type of content for today’s digital world, Gospoken.com offer customers access to thousands of eBooks and audio books to purchase and download directly on their smartphone and tablet devices. Bango provides operator billing for the mobile digital … Continue reading

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How big is the App Store Opportunity

Bango is powering the Blackberry App Store to enable customers to buy Apps and put the charges on their carrier bill.   Bango is also working with several other App Stores of various sizes to enable that capability to be used … Continue reading

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Mobile Wallet Opportunities for Bango

A number of shareholders have been asking about how Bango views the “mobile wallets” that have been discussed and announced a great deal over the last couple of years. Mastercard/Nokia Visa Isis(Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile/Discover) Sprint  Google PayPal Mobile Wallets enable users to store financial … Continue reading

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Maiden profit reported in FY10

Bango has just published its Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 March 2010 and reported maiden profit after tax of £10k, with revenues up 48% between first and second half of FY10. Continuing migration of several large US content … Continue reading

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Strong growth in revenues reported in FY09

Bango has just published its Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 March 2009 and reported strong growth in revenues with revenues up 61.0% between first and second half of FY09. Several major US customers started their transition from using … Continue reading

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FT selects Bango technology for their new mobile site

As a Bango investor you will be doubly pleased to hear that Bango technology is at the heart of the new site, providing the real-time identification technology that enables FT to personalize your end user experience. Continue reading

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